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'Cars of the Revolution' (Devrim Arabalari)
‘Cars of the Revolution’ (Devrim Arabalari), a feature film by acclaimed Turkish director Tolga Ornek, will open the 2009 edition of the Queens International Film Festival and will screen on November 12th at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 5, 2008 under Queens International Film Festival | Be the First to Comment
Queens International Film Festival opens its sixth annual edition tomorrow, Thursday, at The Crowne Plaza La Guardia hotel near La Guardia Airport. This year the festival chose Robert Sarnoff as a featured filmmaker. [via NYT]
2008 Films
 26 MONTHS AFTER KATRINA  Dir: Mark Loewenstern, United States, 16 min, 2008, Documentary A theater company satirizes life in New Orleans after Katrina, providing audiences with catharsis and hope…. details showtimes tickets |
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| ACCEPTABLE SIN, THE Dir: Jack Truman, United States, 5 min, 2008, Short A 60-something liberal woman in the Bible Belt shares her thoughts on the link between obesity and religion in this down-home Andy Grif… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| AROUND THE WAY Dir: Ruby Flores, United States, 11 min, 2008, Short This short was filmed in Jamaica, Queens, and is an exploration of diversity, identity, and being a Filipina-American woman. The film… details showtimes tickets |
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| BABYDADDY, THE Dir: Kether Donohue, United States, 12 min, 2008, Short The Babydaddy is a portrayal of an ill Vietnam veteran’s strife to relate to his teenage daughter and her equal resistance to him. Six… details showtimes tickets |
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| BED HEAD Dir: Anthony L. Fisher, United States, 8 min, 2007, Short A 20-something Brooklyn guy gets out of bed one morning, puts on his slippers and kimono, eats breakfast and sits down at his kitchen w… details showtimes tickets |
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| BROKEN RAINBOW Dir: Chia-Chien Mai, Taiwan, 9 min, 2008, Animation This film is a cut-out style two-dimensional computer animation that tells a story about freedom, constraint, and death. A melancholy… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| BRONX BALLETOMANE, THE Dir: Jeremy Joffee, United States, 31 min, 2008, Short Joey appears to be just a regular guy from his Bronx Italian neighborhood. He’s tough, works two jobs, and hangs with the fellas’. Bu… details showtimes tickets |
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| CANDY Dir: Sung Eun Kim, Korea, 6 min, 2008, Animation This beautifully drawn animation begins with bored students falling asleep at their desks. Time virtually stands still, as the student… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| CATASTROPHE IN THE HOTEL DEL GALLO Dir: Enrique Vargas Celis, Mexico, 5 min, 2008, Short Paying homage to Laurel and Hardy. Managed by a young man just beginning in his new job position, the Hotel del Gallo will be the site… details showtimes tickets |
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| CLEAR SKY ON A BAD DAY , A Dir: Akinobu Ikeno, Japan, 18 min, 2007, Short A victim has returned to confront her killer, in a film that draws on a minimalist style to increase its dramatic impact. Sarah Louise… details showtimes tickets |
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| CONFUSIONS OF AN UNMARRIED COUPLE Dir: The Butler Brothers, Canada, 73 min, 2008, Feature Take a couple whose had a troubled past, throw in a strange attempt at reconciliation and ask each what they think happened. What you g… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| CRAWFORD Dir: David Modigliani, United States, 74 min, 2008, Documentary Months after he arrives in town, George W. Bush declares his candidacy for President, using the town as the perfect set-piece to projec… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| DANCER Dir: Jhoe Davis, United States, 9 min, 2008, Short An earthquake traps a couple underground and fear of approaching death accelerates their attraction…. details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| DARK REEL Dir: Josh Eisenstadt, United States, 108 min, 2008, Feature Dark Reel is both a horror flick and a comedy that is designed to become a cult classic. In Dark Reel, B-movie fanboy Adam Waltz wins… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| DEADLANDS 2: TRAPPED Dir: Gary Ugarek, United States, 97 min, 2008, Feature Trapped is the story of six strangers stuck inside a movie theater on the night the U.S. government tests a new biological weapon on th… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| DISSONANCE Dir: Moniere, Afghanistan, 80 min, 2008, Feature Adam is simple, but mysterious with a sinister past. With his faith and morals all disoriented and blurred, he is left with a deadly di… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| DONOVAN SLACKS Dir: Kivmars Bowling, England, 96 min, 2008, Feature 1928 and Donovan Slacks, a man with a fragile head, is sent to a Sea Bathing Hospital. But when he falls in love with a local fishergir… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| DUEL Dir: Josh Coulas & Matt Dorman, Canada, 11 min, 2008, Short A dark and brooding tale which Caleb, a young artist, struggles to overcome his troubled past by sketching a comic book world in his gr… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| EASTERN COLLEGE Dir: James Francis Flynn , United States, 105 min, 2008, Feature Take four partying students living in the house their late Dean occupied. Add a new Dean intent on closing down their Art School and t… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| EL PASAJERO Dir: Andres Faucher, Venezuela, 38 min, 2008, Short Based on a true story, El Pasajero is a penetrating look at the nature of violence and the effects of isolation. On New Year’s Eve in… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| EVEN IN MY DREAMS Dir: Flavio Alves, United States, 7 min, 2008, Short In this film, Michael, an elderly, world-worn widower, in his pattern of mundane daily urban meanderings, happens upon a Tom of Finland… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| EVIL ONES, THE Dir: Brent Bambic, United States, 2 min, 2008, Short The Evil Ones is about two young siblings who have turned against one another and against their own family. They appear to be possesse… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| EVIL TWIN, THE Dir: Yun Wang, United States, 4 min, 2008, Animation A girl falls in love with a man she sees at her mother’s funeral… Since that time, she has not been able to forget that man, so she s… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| EXPLORING LOVE Dir: Brent Bambic, United States, 102 min, 2008, Feature Sean Parker is in an emotional rut and his goal is finding true love. His good friend Suzy suggests he start to reach his goal by open… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| GATILLERO Dir: Jesus Alarcon, Mexico, 16 min, 2008, Short Joaquin, a boy of one talent and one dream: to play soccer, watches as his options fall apart as a result of the conflict in his city o… details showtimes tickets |
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| HALLUCINATION Dir: Elena Shpak, United States, 40 min, 2008, Short Two lost girls, one Japanese and the other Eastern European, find themselves inside the strange and dangerous cult of the Japanese nigh… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| HEALING LIFE Dir: Fathema Ruma, Shahriar Rahman Shojib, Zahed Sharif, Bangladesh, 100 min, 2008, Feature In this land of dreams, seldom do we hear of stories of dreams denied. What do we make of the millions of undocumented citizens residin… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| HINDENBURG OMEN, THE Dir: Frederic Colier , United States, 112 min, 2008, Feature In this film, professional tennis player Farley McMan, has been tormented since learning he was a child of rape. Terrified that his in… details showtimes tickets |
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| HORSEMAN, PASS BY! Dir: Mark Cummins, United States, 7 min, 2007, Short This short concerns an old gambler, who on the day of the funeral for his last remaining friend, makes an uncharacteristic bet…. details showtimes tickets |
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| I SAW YOU Dir: Matthew Murphy, United States, 5 min, 2008, Music Video I Saw You Forever on the road you stand the little town where you stay strong all alone you walk Are you scared to make a plan… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| INTAKE, THE Dir: Nick Gaglia, United States, 4 min, 2008, Short Although set in the New York City area, this film could take place anywhere. It is about a young man who is being accepted into a drug… details showtimes tickets |
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| IRISH ROPES , THE Dir: Robert Sarnoff, United States, 40 min, 2008, Documentary The Irish Ropes charts the rise and fall of a champion-producing gym on a dead end street in Far Rockaway, while simultaneously followi… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| LEFT/RIGHT Dir: Matthew & Todd Wolfe, United States, 95 min, 2008, Feature Left/Right is a coming-of-age comedy that follows D. Ray Morton, a small-town have-not who has grown up to be a conspicuous, big-city s… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| LETTER HOME Dir: Heather Tenzer , United States, 4 min, 2008, Short In “Letter Home,” a Bangladeshi woman, living in Astoria, writes a letter to her brother, back home in Dhaka, about the challenges of b… details showtimes tickets |
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| LONELINESS OF THE SHORT-ORDER COOK , THE Dir: Marcel Sawicki, Poland, 22 min, 2008, Short Living in East Los Angeles and working at a Japanese jazz bar, a young short-order cook faces deportation to Japan when his visa is den… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| LOOKING FOR PALLADIN Dir: Andrzej Krakowski, United States, 115 min, 2007, Feature Young and arrogant Hollywood talent agent Josh Ross is sent reluctantly to Guatemala to find Oscar winner and retired actor Jack Pallad… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| LUNCH MONEY Dir: Elvira Carrizal , United States, 13 min, 2007, Short Takeisha, 13, buys her lunch with money she gets from Adrien after they hook up in the stairwell. TaKeisha skips class, and is soon fig… details showtimes tickets |
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| MATHEMATICALLY ALIVE Dir: Joseph Coburn & Katherine Foronjy, United States, 94 min, 2007, Documentary This film reveals the stories of a spectrum of Mets devotees and take us on their roller coaster ride of emotion through the 2006 playo… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| MEANING OF LIFE Dir: Visa Koiso-Kanttila, Finland, 11 min, 2008, Documentary A poetic short film about seeking happiness. This film gives insights into what happiness and the good life mean for the inhabitants o… details showtimes tickets |
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| MUSIC LESSON, THE Dir: Virginia Galloway, Kenya, 73 min, 2008, Documentary The Music Lesson tells the story of two groups of young people from extraordinarily different backgrounds as they use the power of musi… details showtimes tickets |
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| MYTH OF THE CAVE Dir: Julio Ponce Palmieri, Canada, 23 min, 2007, Short A man struggles to keep his santity after suffering a loss, but when he comes across an unpredictable hermit, he discovers that one’s e… details showtimes tickets |
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| NADAL vs ALIEN Dir: Tak Hoon Kim , Korea, 3 min, 2008, Animation International tennis superstar Rafael Nadal battles “Nadaltron” in a fight for global domination. This animated short shows Nadal batt… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| NEIGHBORHOOD STORY, A Dir: James Gencarelli, United States, 90 min, 2008, Feature This is the story about an Italian neighborhood on the lower east side of Manhattan, situated between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridge… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| NOTHING REALLY MATTERS Dir: Jean-marc Piché, Canada, 106 min, 2008, Feature The main character, Leo, narrates his own life with great sarcasm and shows the events that have altered his life through a series of f… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| ONE LAST BEAT Dir: Sandra Ciccone, United States, 18 min, 2008, Short This film tells the story of Marcos and his wife Teresa who venture to the USA from Spain to pursue a career in music. But when Marcos… details showtimes tickets |
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| OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS , THE Dir: A.D. Calvo, United States, 92 min, 2008, Feature Ten years after a train accident killed his girlfriend, Josh is haunted by disturbing visions from somewhere between the world of the l… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| PIPELINE PATROL Dir: Don Cato, United States, 8 min, 1974, Animation 35 years later – still missing & nothing changed! Pipeline Patrol is a pixilated allegory about culture clash in a faraway oil rich des… details showtimes tickets |
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| PJ Dir: Russ Emanuel, United States, 91 min, 2008, Feature A man who calls himself PJ has witnessed a horrific accident and subsequently retreats within himself. He doesn’t even know who he is…. details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| PROJECT, THE Dir: Ryan Piotrowicz, United States, 82 min, 2008, Feature Three filmmakers set out to make a documentary about the hardships of inner-city Brooklyn. One follows two NYPD officers. The others… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| PUPPET RAMPAGE Dir: Lindsey “Z” Briggs, United States, 64 min, 2008, Documentary Over 500 puppeteers descended upon St. Paul, Minnesota, for a week of hair-raising, ground-breaking, internationally acclaimed puppet s… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| RABID RAGE Dir: Julio Ponce Palmieri, Canada, 75 min, 2008, Feature A group of people stumble across an injured soldier who was the victim of a scientific military experiment gone wrong…. details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| RACHEL Dir: Chris King, United States, 13 min, 2008, Short When a suburban couple finally meets the woman whose baby they are adopting, they are left with memories of her that are haunting and u… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| RAPTURE, THE Dir: Johnny Wu, United States, 95 min, 2008, Feature The Rapture was written by Johnny Wu and James Geier, and it includes 500 visual effects that took a year to complete. What happens wh… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| RED MIST Dir: Paddy Breathnach, Ireland, 86 min, 2008, Feature A retarded, persecuted autistic man is humiliated by a group of med students from the hospital in which he works as a lowly janitor. Th… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| REEFER MADNESS Dir: Fatso & Rail Side Films, Canada, 23 min, 2008, Documentary Reefer Madness is the story of Graffiti Artist, Fatso, on a journey across the continent to track down the rarest refrigerator boxcars… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| REELED IN Dir: Jesse Allan , Australia, 9 min, 2008, Short This film takes place on a beach in Australia where a bored young boy competes for his father’s attention with his father’s new girlfri… details showtimes tickets |
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| REX Dir: Christopher L. Miller, United States, 90 min, 2008, Feature Set in Rex, Georgia, the film tells the story of a young man named Chase who attempts to save his farm from being stolen by the corrupt… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| ROAD AHEAD: THE FIRST GREEN LONG MARCH, THE Dir: Ryan Wong, China, 52 min, 2008, Documentary The 2008 ‘Green’ Olympics in Beijing gave Chinese environmentalists a chance to be heard, and 2,000 college students from across China… details showtimes tickets |
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| ROCK MUSIC. ROCK ART Dir: Zuleika Kingdon & Martin Briggs-Watson, England, 42 min, 2008, Documentary This film is a cultural exchange adventure that sets out to discover musical sounds of our earliest ancestors and fuse two very differe… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| SCHOOL PLAY Dir: Eddie Rosenstein & Rick Velleu, United States, 72 min, 2008, Documentary Every year, the parents, teachers, and students of Mamaroneck Avenue School put on a play — this year, its an ambitious production of… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| SCHOOLED Dir: Brooks Elms, United States, 85 min, 2008, Feature SCHOOLED reveals the transformation of an intense high school teacher as he discovers a rebellious alternative school and learns to con… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| SEASONS IN THE VALLEY Dir: Adam Matalon, United States, 87 min, 2008, Documentary Hollywood veteran Elliott Gould lends his distinct voice to this gentle documentary exploring the symbiotic relationships between the a… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| SEBASTIAN’S VOODOO Dir: Joaquin Baldwin, United States, 4 min, 2008, Animation In this eerie piece, entitled “Sebastian’s Voodoo,” a voodoo doll must find the courage to save his fellows from being pinned to death…. details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| SOLACE Dir: Sam Ingraffia, United States, 8 min, 2008, Short Solace explores the pains of separation between two lovers, one of whom is committed to a separate marriage…. details showtimes tickets |
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| Spotlight on Robert Sarnoff Dir: Robert Sarnoff, United States, 100 min, 2008, Documentary This Filmmaker Spotlight program includes the following films by Director Robert Sarnoff: - No Rooms Lobby (20 min) - Th… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| STASH Dir: Jay Bonansinga, United States, 82 min, 2007, Feature Stash is a dark comedy produced in Chicago with improv legends, revolving around a young entrepreneur named Jimmy Fox who will go to a… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| SYMPHONY Dir: Erick Oh, United States, 6 min, 2008, Animation This film portrays a sentient creature trying to escape from a reality of being swept away and assimilated into the mainstream, regardl… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| THINK PEACE Dir: Corey Ogilvie, Canada, 50 min, 2008, Documentary This documentary shines light on a social movement struggling to achieve World Peace. It comes at a time when the airwaves are full of… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| THIRD DEGREE Dir: Jeff Stolhand, United States, 30 min, 2006, Short The gritty netherworld of the Texas-Mexico border region is a breeding ground for drug dealers, double dealing and snitches that pits “… details showtimes tickets |
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| UNDER THE RAVEN’S WING Dir: Susan Adriensen, United States, 88 min, 2008, Feature A filmmaker documents a murder committed by three young women. “Raven,” the ringleader, believes in serene dimensions beyond this worl… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| UNDERTOW Dir: Neil McEnery-West , England, 27 min, 2007, Short Undertow is an exploration of loss and isolation. The film focuses on the story of two characters that experience the same emotional jo… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| VALENTINE SONG Dir: Miller & Katsumi, United States, 5 min, 2008, Music Video A music video by “Miller & Katsumi”: An alternative folk-rock duo from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Together they learned how to mime to the re… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| Venice Film Festival Selection - Golden Lion Medal 2008 Dir: Venice Film Festival , Italy, 70 min, 2008, Short QiFF will present a selection of shorts awarded at the 2008 Venice Film Festival…. details showtimes tickets |
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| VICTIM Dir: Roger Florez & Cesar Mazariegos, United States, 30 min, 2007, Short When Max, an arrogant DJ and hip-hop hipster, moves into a not-quite-gentrified neighborhood in Brooklyn, he finds himself an outcast i… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| VIOLA Dir: Shih-Ting Hung, United States, 9 min, 2008, Short On a stumble on slippery moss at the 4 o’clock bus stop, seven-year-old Viola, trying to discover the world, puts solitude in her suitc… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| WHEN THE BODY SPEAKS Dir: James Freivogel, United States, 13 min, 2008, Short ‘When the Body Speaks’ tells the story of two institutionalized young adults, incapable of communicating with the outside world, who fi… details showtimes tickets |
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| WITNESSING HEADLINES Dir: Dana Gedrick & Barry Shaw , United States, 60 min, 2008, Documentary This film is set during one of the most publicized trials in the last decade. It examines what happens when you turn the cameras aroun… details showtimes tickets |
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| WOODHAVEN PAUSE, THE Dir: Conrad Alexander Stojak, United States, 98 min, 2008, Feature Based on actual events, the film characterizes the lives of a family living in an impoverished area of Queens, New York City torn apart… details showtimes tickets |
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| YESTERDAY WAS A LIE Dir: James Kerwin, United States, 89 min, 2008, Feature In this film noir, Hoyle, a girl with a sharp mind and a weakness for bourbon, is on the trail of a reclusive genius. Haunted by an ev… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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| ZOMBIE LOVE Dir: Yfke Van Berckelaer, United States, 37 min, 2007, Short This musical extravaganza tells the story of a zombie boy who tries to change his flesh eating ways in order to gain the love of a mort… details trailer showtimes tickets |
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 30, 2008 under Queens International Film Festival | Be the First to Comment
The 6th Queens International Film Festival in New York City will be held from Thursday November 6th to Sunday November 9th, 2008. QiFF 2008 film lineup will includes over 100 films.