ART CINEMA AWARD - FESTROIA from 3rd to 12th of  June 2011 Synopsis: Louise’s mother was in prison and that’s why Louise lives with her gran. But now her Mum has been released. Louise thinks her Mum is just great. Seen through the eyes of this teenager, Susan is cool, decisive and absolutely irresistible. Desperate for her mother’s love and recognition, Louise is quite content to party all night long at her ...

ART CINEMA AWARD QUINZAINE DES RÉALISATEURS, CANNES from 12th to 22nd of May 2011 Synopsis: It’s summertime, Zak and Seth find themselves dead broke and ditched by their absentee mother in the family’s cottage. Just like every holiday, they’ve resigned themselves to another shitty summer. But things change this year, when they meet Danny, a local teenager. Together, with life at their fingertips, they begin ...

ART CINEMA AWARD, VILNIUS / 16th KINO PAVASARIS 17 to 31/03/2011 Synopsis: Loving young couple Luna and Amar try their best to overcome unexpected obstacles that threaten their relationship. After Amar's dramatic change in a fundamentalist community, Luna tears herself apart searching if love Is truly enough to keep the couple together on the path to a lifetime of happiness ... [box type="info" head="The Ju ...

ART CINEMA AWARD, TOULOUSE / 19ème CINEMA EN CONSTRUCCION 24 & 25/03/2011 Synopsis: In attempt to impress Emilia, Julio lies about reading Proust. Suddenly, the two are plunged into a love affair set among university classrooms, study groups, and punk rock concerts.  Eight years later, working as freelance editor and struggling to become a writer, Julio offers to transcribe the handwritten manuscripts of Ch ...

ART CINEMA AWARD, BERLINALE // PANORAMA – 2011 Synopsis: A road movie set in the craggy mountains of Armenia, this film tells the story of the brief but emotive relationship between a young American who has come to the Caucasus to take geographic measurements for satellite images, and an Armenian photographer who has left her country and is now returning for the first time in years. At their first meeting t ...

ART CINEMA AWARD - Pierre TODESCHINI // ANNECY CINEMA ITALIEN 2010   Synopsis: A poetic vision of the revolving cycles of life and nature and the unbroken traditions of a timeless place. The story of one soul that moves through four successive lives. An old shepherd lives his last days in a medieval village of Calabria. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church ...

Synopsis: The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth of The Beatles. (taken from: Cynthia Powell on imdb.com) [box type="info" head="Infobox"] Year of pro ...

ART CINEMA AWARD - MOSTRA Di VENEZIA - Orizzonti 2010 Synopsis: Once upon a time... In a castle somewhere in a bygone age... The fairy Carabosse cuts the umbilical cord of a newborn babe, a little girl called Anastasia. Three young scatterbrained fairies appear, their cheeks red from running... Too late, says Carabosse, at sixteen the child’s hand will be pierced and she’ll die. The young fairies burst into ...

ART CINEMA AWARD - LOCARNO 2010   Synopsis: King, around 40, runs a bar in Bor, a mining town in decline, in Serbia. A loner, he lives only for the present, and his motorbike. Years ago, an affair with Ruzica, his best friend Animal’s wife, led to Animal’s death and Ruzica in prison for his murder. King now avoids everyone but Zlatan, Animal’s simple-minded young brother, whom King looks after, from gu ...

ART CINEMA AWARD SARAJEVO 2010 Synopsis: : Mona Gajdó, a Romanian of Hungarian origin is persuaded of the necessity to go abroad to ensure her economic survival. When she gets to London with forged papers, she is led to one of the capital’s night clubs, the Bibliothèque Pascal, where she works for a time before getting arrested by the police for working illegally. The night club owner manages to get her rel ...