7 Adventures of Sinbad

Shot in Belize, Sinbad, the original Prince of Persia, must complete seven impossible tasks in order to save the world from catastrophe and prevent the apocalypse.

A Dance For Grace

Director: Orville Matherson & Junior Powell
Country: USA / Jamaica
92 mins/ Color/ DVD
Genre: Drama
Year: 2010
Original Language: English

When Ricky Myers (Orville Matherson) , a talented black dancer of Jamaican descent, is caught selling drugs in Augusta, Ga. he is sentenced to four months probation. During which he is required to teach at a training center in the predominately white community of Johnsonville, Ga. While there he encounters a student with an ailing mother, Grace (Susan Lahout), needs $90,000.00 to have an operation to save her life. In order to raise the money Ricky decides to help the students compete in a national dance competition.He introduces the dance group to the exciting reggae beats of his homeland. A Dance for Grace is sure to captivate diverse audiences everywhere with it’s urban dance moves, soulful soundtrack and touching storyline centered on the basic human desire for a second chance. Excellent entertainment for the whole family, A Dance for Grace reminds us that it’s not where you’ve come from but where you are going that really matters.

Andres Doesn’t Want to Take the Siesta / Andres no Quiere Dormir la Siesta

Director: Daniel Bustamante
Country: Argentina
108 mins/ Color/ DVD
Genre: Drama
Year: 2009
Original Language: Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Rated: PG 13

Santa Fe, Argentina, 1977. When his mother Nora dies in an accident, Andres goes to live with his grandmother Olga and his father Raul. After her death, it is discovered that Nora was involved with a terrorist group. This revelation angers Olga as nothing should ever happen without her knowledge. At his father’s house, Andres does not have a room of his own and is treated roughly by Raul. Once an extroverted young boy, Andres becomes secretive and withdrawn. Nearby to where they live is a government detention center. When Andres passes by it on the way to his mother’s house, he sometimes stops to talk to the guard outside the main door. His mother Nora’s house becomes a refuge for him and he spends long hours in it. A dark secret overshadows his new neighbourhood as it houses a detention centre for revolutionary rebels. This will be a year full of changes and transformations where the relationship between grandson and grandmother is tested.

Before the World Ends / Antes Que o Mundo Acabe

Director: Ana Luiza Azevedo
Country: Brazil,
104 min/ Color/ DVD
Genre: Adventure
Year: 2009
Original Language: Portuguese with English Subtitles

Daniel, a fifteen-year-old boy, lives in his own small world facing his apparently insoluble issues: a girlfriend who doesn’t know what she wants, a friend who is accused of stealing, and a small town that will have to be left behind. Everything happens when he receives a letter from his father, whom he has never met and didn’t even remember. Through the letters and photographs sent by his father, Daniel finds out that the world is much bigger than the one he used to know. Maria Clara, Daniel’s little sister, watches everything going on around her. She tells the story of which everything seems to be ending: the black bears, the orange juice, the polyandric tribes and the peaceful life in São Pedro do Sul, in the South of Brazil.

Fallen Gods / Los Dioses Rotos

Director: Ernesto Daranas Serrano
Country: Mexico and Cuba
96 min. / Color / DVD
Genre: Drama
Year: 2009
Original Language: Spanish and Yoruba with English Subtitles

Laura, a university professor, studies the infamous Cuban pimps Yarini and Alberto Ponce de Leon who were shot dead by their French rivals who controlled prostitution in Havana during the early twentieth century. In order to prove that such legendary characters existed, Laura explores the most complex and dangerous zones of today’s Havana.
Beyond her story, social drama, suspense and melodrama make The Fallen Gods a tangled web of conflicting values, as it reflects on ethical and moral perspectives of a group of characters from all cultural levels, among whom the clichés of “positive” and “negative” are not easily labelled.

Hermaphrodite / Hermafrodita

Director: Albert Xavier
Country: Dominican Republic
84 mins/Color/ DVD
Genre: Drama
Year: 2009
Original Language: Spanish
English Subtitles: YES
Rated: PG 13

Based on the true events in the 1960’s, Maria, a hermaphrodite, is born in Ocoa, a small country town in the Dominican Republic. She is brought up by her grandmother in a racial environment. Tired of the social discrimination due to her growth, Maria prepares to leave town to start a new life. However, her destiny changes when she meets and falls in love with La Melaza an assassin who seeks refuge in her town. Their love grows into commitment but Maria’s childhood best friend, Wanda, jeopardizes Marias’s relationship and life because of jealousy.

Lie / Miente

Director: Rafi Mercado
Country: Puerto Rico / Dominican Republic
90 mins/Color/ DVD
Genre: Drama
Year: 2009
Language: Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Rated: PG 13

Henry, an introverted young artist, rides the fine line between reality and fantasy to survive his distorted urban life. His friend Diff jolts his thirst for adrenaline while Paula, his mysterious lover, dares him to explore his wildest desires. A Latino psychological thriller with a unique visual style that will take you to the edge.

Not By Chance / Não Por Acaso

Director: Philippe Barcinski
Country: Brazil
90 min/ Color/ DVD
Genre: Drama
Year: 2007
Language: Portuguese

Nao Por Acaso’ is the story of two control-obsessed characters: Enio, a supervisor at a traffic control operation centre and Pedro, a snooker player who seeks absolute mastery of his technique. Both find fulfilment in life by submerging themselves in a mathematical mindset that leads them towards the feeling of control they long for so much. But all this is thrown to the wind one day when both Enio’s ex-wife and Pedo’s wife die in a car accident. Descending into the jagged world of his obsessive mind, Pedro despairs until he meets Lucia, a young woman with whom, in a parallel to his snooker techniques, he bizarrely tries to re-live the same exact moments he once lived with his wife. Enio on the other hand, is forced to confront his loss through the mysterious appearance of his unknown daughter, who forces a somewhat clumsy relationship with him by deciding to look after him.

Personal Belongins

Director: Alejandro Brugues
Country: Cuba
98 min/ Color/ DVD
Genre: Drama
Year: 2007
Language: Spanish with English Subtitles

Ernesto has been trying to leave the country since he can remember. Ana´s family left Cuba on a raft but she decided to stay behind. From the moment they met, Ana and Ernesto fall hopelessly in love but Ana knows she can´t ask Ernesto to stay behind, and he knows he can´t ask her to leave with him.

Raajneeti

Director: Prakash Jha
Country: India
178 min / Color / DVD
Genre: Political Thriller
Year: 2010
Original Language: Hindi with English Subtitles

Raajneeti is a story about Indian politics. About Indian democracy. About Indian elections. Above all, it is a story of a few people who control the destiny of millions. It is the story of their unstoppable ambition, and their bitter and violent battle to achieve it. This is the story of people who understand power - and know how to wield it at will.

Skin

Director: Anthony Fabian
Country: South Africa
107 min / Color / DVD
Genre: Biographic Drama
Year: 2008
Original Language: English / Zulu
Rated: PG-13

SKIN is one of the most moving stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa: Sandra Laing is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their ‘white’ little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows Sandra’s thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world - and triumphs against all odds.

Teo’s Journey

Director: Walter Doehner Pecanins
Country: Mexico
90 min / Color / DVD
Genre: Drama
Year: 2008
Original Language: Spanish with English Subtitles

Ten years old Teo goes on a journey in search of his father whom he lost in the US-Mexican border. As he crosses the desert and avoids its perils, he will find strength in a friendship with a teenage kid.

The Silent Army / Wit Licht

Director: Jean van de Velde
Country: Netherlands
92 mins/ Color/DVD
Genre: Drama
Year: 2008
Original Language: Dutch & Swahili w/ English Subtitles
Rated: PG 16

The Silent Army is based on true stories of children from War Child projects and is set in the world of child soldiers in Africa. One night the young Abu, along with a dozen other children from his village, is kidnapped by rebels. Thomas is the son of a Dutch cook Eduard who runs a restaurant in Africa, and the boy is inconsolable when he finds his best friend has gone. Eduard decides to find out what happened to Abu and starts discovering the harsh reality of the lives of child soldiers.

Tourists / Turistas

Director: Alicia Scherson
Country: Chile
105 mins/ DVD/ Color
Genre: Drama
Year: 2009
Original Language: Spanish with English Subtitles
Rated: PG 13

Carla is abandoned by her husband while vacationing on a national park. There she finds herself stranded with a Norwegian backpacker and a former pop star. Turistas is a movie about the need for trust as both Carla and her friend discover the repercussions of lies.

Who killed the White Llama / ¿Quién mató a la llamita blanca?

Director: Rodrigo Bellott
Country: Bolivia
112 min/ Color / DVD
Genre: Comedy
Year: 2006
Original Language: Spanish with English Subtitles

Jacinto and Domitila are two indigenous Bolivians, happily married... and the most notorious criminals in the country. When they are paid to transport 50kg of cocaine to the Brazilian border, they embark on a journey that will take them through the jungles, mountains, deserts and cities of Bolivia on a riotous adventure that will test their relationship and make them question their future as criminals. Setting out from El Alto, the highest city in the world, they disguise themselves as a farming couple expecting a baby, with the cocaine hidden in Domitilas false pregnant belly. What should have been a simple arrest soon becomes a hilarious game of cat-and-mouse with the criminals outwitting their pursuers at every turn.