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    Archive : 13th AIFF 2007

  • Shotgun Stories

    Rural Arkansas, the present. A man’s funeral becomes the stage for a bloody tragedy between the two families he left behind. Son and his brothers, ...
  • Water Lillies - Naissance des Pieuvres

    It’s summertime in the Parisian suburbs. Safe in a secluded environment away from adults, middle class teens enjoy an idle summer and test the waters ...
  • ΧΧΥ

    Alex is only fifteen, yet she is the carrier of a closely guarded secret that forced her family to leave Buenos Aires for a small coastal town in ...
  • Parting Shot- Pas Douce

    A small Swiss town near the border with France provides the setting for the story of Frédérique, a 24-year-old woman on the verge of a mental ...
  • Blind

    A blind young man lives alone with his mother in a stately country mansion. Hostile and outright aggressive to anyone trying to approach him, he can ...
  • Life Can Be So Wonderful - Sekai wa tokidoki utsukushii

    A composite film in five chapters, Life Can Be So Wonderful links together the stories of five ordinary people portraying their daily struggles, ...
  • Crazy Love

    "Being obsessive means being the prisoner of a mechanism, of an increasingly punishing trap, with no end in sight" Jacques Lacan. America, the late ...
  • Night Train - Ye Che

    Wu Hongyan is bailiff for a provincial Chinese court supervising female death row inmates convicted for crimes of passion. On weekends the 30-year-old ...
  • La Zona

    Life in the luxurious secluded residential complex of the Zone is suddenly turned upside-down after a break-in that results in murder. When the shocked ...
  • No Mercy for the Rude - Ye ui up nun gut deul

    A twist on the contemporary Asian gangster genre, No Mercy for the Rude stars a mute hired assassin with a soft heart. Determined to raise money for a ...
  • Pretty in the Face

    Split between their sexual curiosity and the need to maintain their dignity, an insecure 26-year-old girl and an overweight adolescent form a peculiar ...
  • Tekkonkinkreet - Tekon kinkurîto

    A pun on the Japanese words for ?concrete?, ?steel? and ?muscle?, Tekkonkinkreet is how the creators of this action-packed, fast-paced anime envisage ...
  • The Band’s Visit - Bikur Hatizmoret

    OK, so maybe sending an Egyptian police force band over to a small Israeli town wasn’t such a great idea after all. Caught up in a tangle of red tape ...