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REIGN OF TERROR (2010)
Official Selection of Montreal World Film Festival 2010
An Al Qaeda kidnapping meets the Pepsi taste test challenge.
What happens when terrorists want to improve their marketing image?
Director: David Uloth (Comedy, 8:45)
ON THE WAY TO THE SEA (2010)
Official Selection of Toronto / Vancouver International Film Festival 2010
Le Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2010
This surreal hybrid of documentary footage, experimental abstraction and fictional elements
studies the human fragility and spiritual homelessness generated by the biggest earthquake
in Chinese history in 2008.
Director: Tao Gu (Experimental, 19:30)
FEAR OF SNAKES (2009)
Winner of Best Experimental Short at Rendez Vous Du Cinema Quebecois 2010
Winner of Poetry Award at Chicago International Children' Film Festival 2009
Lorna Crozier same titled poem is illustrated; a summer day a young girl
loses her fear of snakes. The sights and sounds of that day are remembered years later
in an exploration of the power of childhood experience.
Director: Andreas Mendritzki (Experimental, 5:00)
IN THE DEPTH OF SUMMER (2009)
Rainy south China, the fragments of Khan’s first love; a memory of a moment in life
when love was first awakened from its long sleep, but slipped away quickly for it
couldn’t be sustained by the innocence.
Director: Aonan Yang (Drama, 6:00)
SINGULARITY (2008)
Winner of Kodak North American Cinematography Award 2008
In a world where human contact has become scarce, technological progress will make
smarter than human intelligence the only logical outcome. Computers will reach a
point called Singularity, what happens next?
Director: Nguyen Anh, Nguyen (Sci-Fi, 12:20)
FOR WENDY (2008)
Winner of OnRoute Film Festival 2008, Best Cinematography Award at TIFF 2008
Student Showcase, Best Sound Design at Atlantic Film Festival 2008
Three children try to understand the death of their mother through innocent yet
deep questioning. Inspired by a true story.
Director: Jacqueline Mills (Drama, 10:00)
MY NAME IS TUAN (2008)
A young Vietnamese boy adjusts in subtle ways to western life. He meets a girl at his
new school and befriends her. A film about the loneliness but also the beauty of
discovering a whole new world.
Director: Nguyen Anh, Nguyen (Drama, 5:00)
