Cinema Directory

Languages: English, French,

Comments: They're crime-fighting hotties with killer bodies.

Summary: Plaid-skirted schoolgirls are groomed by a secret government agency to become the newest members of the elite national-defense group, D.E.B.S.

Summary:

Comments: The summer is going to be in tents.

Summary: Dads Charlie Hinton and Phil Ryerson take over running a summer day camp. Armed with no knowledge of the great outdoors, a dilapidated facility, and a motley group of campers, it doesn’t take long before things get out of control. Up against threats of foreclosure and declining enrollment, Charlie is forced to call on his estranged father, Col Buck Hinton, to help bring the camp together and teach everyone about teamwork, perseverance and the power of forgiveness.

Comments: Evil has an innocent face

Summary: After a troubled year in school, Jodi is informed by her teacher, Ms. Hemp, that she will recommend to Jodi's father that the girl be sent to a special boarding school next year. Horrified at the thought of being separated from her beloved father, Jodi does what any young child in the same situation would do: she sneaks into the school the next day when nobody is there but Ms. Hemp is there and brutally murders her by crushing her with a bookcase so Ms. Hemp can't meet with her father. Well, maybe Jodi isn't like the other children. As other people start to come between the girl and her father, they also meet similar fates.

Summary: Series of short films of the everyday life adventures of a few 6 year olds.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; Commentary by Writer/director Peter Hedges, Dolby Digital 2.0

Comments: Something's happening to Dan. It's confusing. It's awkward. It's family.

Summary: Dan Burns is a single father who dedicates his life to his children, but one day he meets Marie at a bookstore. They get to know each other, but then Dan finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother, Mitch Burns.

Languages: English

Summary: An allegorical story showing how an insignificant member of society struggles to maintain her individuality despite a pervasive crowd mentality. Set to Czech composer Leos Janacek's 'Glagolitic Mass.'

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: Her visions are beyond your worst fears...

Summary: Danika is a thirty-five years old overprotective mother with a beautiful family composed by her successful husband Randy, two sons - the teenager Kurt and the little Brian, and one teenager daughter - Lauren. Danika is disturbed and near a breakdown, having dark and terrifying nightmares and daydreams; distracted in her work and consequently committing mistakes; and under psychiatric treatment with Dr. Evelyn. Her problems was originated when her husband cheated her with the nanny of their children, breaking her confidence on him. The lack of attention caused by her disturbed mind leads her family to a tragedy.

Summary: "Nobody Knows", an extraordinary film from Japanese director Kore-Eda Hirokazu, is a heartbreaking and touching story about how selfish a single mother can be to her four children, and how resilient children can be. Kicked out of several apartments for her large brood, Keiko (Japanese pop star You) sneaks them in to a new one (two inside the suitcases) and goes over the house rules: No loud noises. They must stay hidden inside the apartment all day, every day. Only Akira, the oldest, leaves to do grocery shopping while she works. He also makes dinner while Keiko goes out on dates (implying to her children that she's looking for a rich husband so that they can all live in a big house together).
One day, Keiko (not a villain, but an unsympathetic, helium-voiced child herself) announces she's going away for a few weeks to work. She soon emerges every few months, only to drop off money before taking off again, at one point, for good. Akira forgoes any normal 12-year-old's upbringing (even school) to play mother, father, even Santa Claus to his siblings. There's a trapped feeling in "Nobody Knows". For the younger kids, it's the inability to escape to the outside world. For Akira, it's seeing the outside world and knowing he has too many responsibilities to participate in it--when he tries, the results are disastrous. As the children grow up and resources become more scarce, the film's tenacity to show every painful detail of their existence slows the pace to almost a standstill. Still, it's a lovely, haunting tale beset with unforced performances from its young actors, particularly Yagira, who won the best actor prize at Cannes. -- "Ellen A. Kim"

Summary: In mourning over the tragic drowning of their daughter Sarah (Stuckey), James (Bean) and Adèle (Bello) are visited by Ebrill (Stone), a young girl who claims she died 60 years ago ... and bares a startling resemblance to Sarah.

Comments: The Lordi Motion Picture

Summary: Sarah is an autistic little girl whose father is worried about her health. Concerned for her, the father sees a removal from the hospital by force as the only option. An elevator break-down prevents a smooth exit and renders them trapped with others. Yet the incident is only the beginning of a descent into nightmare. As the doors open the hospital appears mysteriously deserted. When mutilated bodies are found, creatures from a dark world start a frightening attack. It soon becomes clear that the survival of the group may rest solely on Sarah.

Comments: Some mysteries were never meant to be solved.

Summary: A mother and daughter, still wounded from a bitter custody dispute, hole up in a run-down apartment building. Adding further drama to their plight, they are targeted by the ghost of former resident.

Summary: Synopsis:
Written and co-directed by the writer of The Full Monty, this is a story about Catherine, the slightly wild ten-year-old daughter of a farmer family. Her younger brother, Matthew, is seriously ill. Catherine's irrepressible lust for life is a source of joy for her parents, Sue and Tom. When Catherine witnesses a strange phenomenon in the hills, she is convinced that it is a sign that Matthew will get better. But as the news of her vision spreads around town, Catherine finds that she not holds the key to the uncertainties of both her family and the whole community.

Languages: English

Comments: Some secrets should never come to light

Summary: A teenage girl moves into a remote countryside house with her family, only to discover that their gloomy new home has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy the family.

Summary: Three boys and one girl set off on an adventure to rescue a russian expedition to the Artic. We see the training and preparation and then they are off. Back at the base the other kids await our heros' return. Somewhat bizarre!

Summary: Ten year-old Jessica lives near the beach with her mother and few friends. She dreams of her father whom she's never seen. One day she finds a pretty stone on the beach, that, when picked up, starts telling her a story about love. She tries to convince her mother and friends she's found a special stone, but all think she's pretty much gone mad.

The stone, which claims to be the heart of an old pirate, helps her get connected to reality again, and accept the fact that her father is not the man of her dreams, and that her mother and friends is all she's got.

Comments: Daddy's little girl is hungry.

Summary: Dawn is a special little girl with special needs. Born from a human father and a vampire mother who died while giving birth. Dawn requires blood to survive. She and her father travel across the country, assuming new identities and never staying in one place for very long--until a small town detective with psychic powers pays extra attention to the murder of one of his townsfolk.

Summary: Bernard is a drunk and an accomplished sponger, who takes a young girl, Winnie, on a trip to the seashore one day in the rain. The girl may be his daughter, with his ex-wife remarried, but she may also be his niece and she does call him "uncle". It's a bit hard to say. Poor Winnie has leg irons as the result of some handicap, but they don't appear to dampen her enthusiasm for a day at the beach with her uncle.

Anyhow, Bernard does not have a squeaky clean reputation & he is barely trusted with his charge, and he's accosted at the train station before they've even left by someone to whom he owes money.

At any rate, he and Winnie do reach the shore, and the weather is terrible, but Winnie is with her uncle and she loves him. And her uncle loves Winnie to, to an extent, but it appears he loves alcohol more, and proceeds to spend the day acquiring and consuming vast quantities, until he's unable to continue and that's kind of where things leave off.

Bernard is a rather pathetic figure, yet his niece apparently adores him and is fiercely loyal to him, despite the fact that he's left her on her own a couple times & she's been left in tears. Bernard does appear to dote on his niece too, but she's obviously not the most important thing to him.

Summary: Two sexy underage girls pose and strip for their digital camera, a young teacher holds a dangerous experiment with her pupils; a bus driver refuses to continue driving over a trivial matter; a group of drunken young men coerce each other into salacious pranks.

"Involuntary" is a witty, perceptive and poignant film which looks at the nature of group dynamics in a series of unrelated stories, straight from the mad world we live in.

Comments: There is no escape.

Summary: During Harry Houdini's tour of Britain in 1926, the master escapologist enters into a passionate affair with a Scottish psychic. The psychic and her daughter attempt to con Houdini during a highly publicized séance to contact his mother whose death has haunted him for many years. However all does not go to plan...

Summary: The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.

Summary: An adolescent boy quickly graduates from a peeping tom to a stud when he has the affections of two women to choose from. Keeping a careful eye is the mute daughter of one of the woman, who seems not to happy with her mother's latest choice in a man. The debut and only directorial effort from famed Japanese author Masuo Ikeda, this erotic thriller of sorts, set in the Greek isles is a must see.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish, Dolby Digital 5.1; French, Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: Three relationships. Three disasters. One last chance.

Summary: Romantic comedy: Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad is in the midst of a divorce when his 10 year old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will's story begins in 1992, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the Clinton campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as a idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women. On the campaign, Will's best buddy is Russell McCormack. They not only have similar political aspirations, they share the same type of girl problems, too. Will hopelessly attempts a "PG" version of his story for his daughter ad changes the names so Maya has to guess who he finally married. Is her mother Will's college sweetheart, the dependable girl next-door Emily? Is she his longtime best friend and confidante, he apolitical April? Or is she the free-spirited but ambitious journalist? As Maya puts together the pieces of her dad's romantic puzzle, she begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. And as Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it's definitely never too late to go back...and maybe even possible to find a happy ending.

Languages: Russian

Summary: A nice family tale of a girl who visits her brother while on vacation. But hilarities ensue when the local village boys mistake her for the country's swimming champion.

Summary: Three couples each with kids or, to put it another way, three couples each with the kids from hell. It's a simple premise; once they get through fantasizing about killing their respective kids the adults decide to play the kids at their own game and show them how it feels: in a typical example a boy who consistently makes farting noises and pretends they emanate from the maid is slipped an ultra strong laxative by his mother and then finds his father has nailed the lid on the toilet seat. Subtle it's not but funny ... yes, that example is about the most off-color in the whole movie.

Summary: An intimite look into the life of three neglected children. Two sisters and a brother, each from different fathers share an appartment in Paris without a mother. The children expect her, they love her - sporadically she comes in the night and has left again in the morning.

They don't like going to school. Sometimes when it gets dark they run into the streets naked, intentionally to catch a flu so they don't have to go to school. We follow the children as they steal, beg and lie their way through childhood, purposely to evade adults and their influences, and as a result turning us viewers into voyeurs for about an hour. A chilling experience.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 1.0; French, Dolby Digital 1.0

Comments: Never was a woman violated as profanely... Never was a woman subject to inhuman love like this... Never was a woman prepared for a more perverse destiny...

Summary: Scientist Alex Harris, doing research on artificial intelligence, is working on a special kind of computer. This computer grows more and more powerful and eventually rapes the scientist's wife, Susan Harris.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; Commentary by Director, Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: The Nightmare Returns

Summary: A documentary is shown on TV of group of teens who investigate the legendary forbidden zone, in which once took place a Demon infestation (see Demoni I). When finding a lifeless corps of a demon, one of the teens causes the resurrection it, and the demon makes it's way into the nearby world by TV-broadcast... An unlucky girl, having her birthday-party at that time, gets posessed by the demon while watching the documentary and soon the complete building in which she lives turns into a living nighmare....

Summary: A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human being.

Languages: French

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Beth is just finishing school, and lives in Paris with her bedridden mother and younger brother. She is annoyed because her boyfriend suggested she try sleeping with other men - the uglier the better. Sugardad, a doctor who visits her mother, and supports them with occasional cheques, now has his eyes on Beth. Alphonse, an older man, intervenes when Beth's boyfriend is fighting with her on the banks of the Seine. When she visits Alphonse later, they end up discussing poetry.

Summary: In this touching documentary we follow the daily rhythm of Desi, an eleven year old girl with an extraordinary life.

Desi is eleven years old and, like other children of her age, goes to school during the day. But she doesn't always know where she'll be spending the night. Desi's mother died when she was a baby. Harry, her unemployed father lives with his new girlfriend, Esther. Desi has her own room at their house but cannot always rely on her father. In this touching documentary we follow the daily rhythm of a young extraordinary life, a rhythm that, in Desi's eyes, is perfectly ordinary.

Comments: Some secrets should stay buried...

Summary: Laura is excited when one of her oldest friends, Elizabeth, stops by for a visit while her hubby is away - that is, until she learns that her gal pal has been sleeping with her spouse! When these two women duke it out, only one of them is going to survive! Find out who lives and how the guilty person spins all sorts of cover-ups to hide what happened.

Summary: In this political thriller, a young woman is found drowned on a winter night by the sea. The dead woman's brother, Thomas, discovers that her death is connected to their father, now deceased, and his work in military intelligence. As Thomas digs deeper into the case his family is brought into sudden danger.

Summary: In a palace of Paris. Two detectives are investigating a two-years-old murder. Emile and Francoise Chenal are putting pressure on Jim Fox Warner, a boxer manager, who owes them a huge amount of money. But Jim also owes money to the Mafia, and it seems the boxing match he is counting on to bail out will not be sufficient...

Summary: "Bambi's childhood", the animals change into human beings back and forth in this russian adaptation of Bambi.

Summary: Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a boming raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again.

Languages: English, Unknown

Summary: The Barry family acquire a new puppy. Only the father and the family maid suspect, rightly, that inside the dog are demonic forces.

Comments: Live to tell

Summary: This is another telling of the holocaust, but this time from the perspective of a modern teenage girl who only grudgingly accepts the Jewish traditions, but when she is asked to "open the front door" as part of the Seder feast finds herself, not unlike Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, to have entered the 1940's and has stepped into the life of a prisoner in one of the German death camps where she experiences all of its horrors firsthand.

Summary: Beth and Matt Winters discover a beautifully renovated apartment in an old Connecticut house that seems too good to be true. Their new downstairs neighbor, Tyler Grant (Stephen Rea), has a niece named Kayla who seems to be a perfect playmate for the Winters' six-year-old son Calvin.

When Calvin becomes increasingly restless around the Grants and tells his mother there are monsters in the house, Beth dismisses it as just her son's active imagination. Beth gradually becomes suspicious when she experiences frightening, unexplained occurrences in the house. By the time the menacing truth is revealed, neighbors and friends of Beth and Matt have gone missing, and the family must battle a 300-year-old legacy of ruthless evil.

Summary: Sad tale of little Valya, who loses everything from her mother to her home during a bombing raid. She is then taken in by a village family and has to adjust to a new life that is completely foreign to her.

Summary: Chloé (Adèle Haenel) is 13 years old and unable – or unwilling – to speak. Damaged by years of abandonment, she cannot bear to be touched, but loyally and unquestioningly follows her younger brother, Joseph (Vincent Rottiers). The years on their own, running from every home to which they have been sent, have made Joseph mature and cunning far beyond his years. He looks out for Chloé, fully aware that the special nature of her trauma could cause them to be separated at any turn, but prepared to fight at all costs to preserve the only family either sibling has ever known. He is fiercely protective of his sister, jealously guarding her from any attempt to make her whole again. Theirs is a mutual dependency of tragic proportions, but to gain any sense of health and normality in their lives, the cycle will somehow have to be broken. When they end up in a hospice for runaways and disturbed children, and in the care of a professional psychiatrist, a door opens for the first time – but will the two of them enter?

Summary: In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. For Frédérique it's the year of her first serious love, her first foray into politics (the Algerian question and "ban the bomb"), her first kiss from an older man, her first friend who runs away, and her first loss of friendship over values. For Anne, who watches her sister closely, it's a year of her first period and of learning to talk to boys, dealing with unfair teachers, and sorting things out with mom after getting in trouble.

Summary: A notorious diamond thief and two dim-witted accomplices stop along the highway where 12 year-old Owen sees them mistreating their dog. The boy intervenes to give the thirsty dog a drink, but it escapes into the woods. Owen helps the angry thugs search for the animal deep into the forest, where he ditches them. The boy finds the dog and they hide out in his secret fort, ingeniously fortified with booby traps and defense mechanisms to repel intruders. Bravely, his fort is built atop the ridge where the feared 'Madman of the Mountain' is said to live.

Desperate to retrieve their $5 million in stolen jewels stashed on the dog, the thugs catch up with Owen, and a terrific battle ensues. Can one kid with a tricked-out fort protect an animal from three determined thieves? And is the legendary Madman of the Mountain real? Kids of all ages will delight in the fast-paced action and comedy this heart-warming tale delivers.

Summary: The two little female protagonists in this film both show an ingrained stubborn streak when it comes to bending to anyone else's will, and both have less-than-ideal personal lives. Tilla (Carmen Sarge) is chubby, bossy and brash, and has most of her fifth-grade classmates by the throat. Anna (Jana Mattukat) is skinny, shy, and forever fantasizing about a magic land where she can travel to the Milky Way. When Tilla and Anna clash at school, neither gives in to the other. But one day, Tilla ruins Anna's bike, and the teacher forces her to set things right, or else. Anna, in the meantime, has been so humiliated by Tilla that she cannot go home and face her family, and when she tries to hide out under a bridge, Tilla comes along and scolds her because she is upsetting her mother and she should not do that. Tilla herself has no mother. Finally, the two antagonistic children end up stranded in a hayloft, and though their disagreements seem certain to continue, a sneaking appreciation of each other's chutzpah mellows out their differences.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Commentary by director Sam Weisman; Commentary by writer/actor David Spade and writer Fred Wolf, Unknown

Comments: 50 million people used to watch him on TV. Now he washes their cars.

Summary: A thirty-something former child star hires a foster family to re-create the childhood he never had.

Summary: 1. Kindersommer

The 30-year-old tourism manager Gegor Nadolny is with his ten-year-old daughter on the return journey of Italy. Although Anna has a fever, he does not have in a great hurry to come home to Hamburg because he fears what expects him there professionally and privately. He wants only after peacocks, a village in which he has spent twenty years ago a summer with his Stiefgroßeltern. The recollection of the village and his people always gave him a feeling of native country in which he longs to return. He tells ill Anna about that summer. The curious imagination of the boy at that time and the desperate longing of the man today mix dream and reality.

2. Sonne, Mond und Sterne

Tourism manager Gregor Nodolny and his ten-year-old daughter Anna come to the village about which he has told her. But while Anna produces quite directly relations, Gregor must overcome his disappointment about the reality over and over again. He meets them almost everybody again: the solitarily become uncle Sepp who has taken over the court; the too clever aunt Herlinde who still, nevertheless, marries; the grandpa in the hospital; Martin who has fought twenty years ago as passionately as in vain for aunt Gerti and leads today a pleasure establishment as successfully as hardened. But really importantly the meetings with both child friends are of that time. Ada whom he wanted to marry as a ten-year-old and whose picture was in way of all later relations is a widow and has a son. Ila, from Gregor and Ada at that time as a courageous outsider admired, is a gas station attendant and Phantast.

Summary: Ater the Nazis take over political power in Germany 1933 the father of Rosi and Hansi, a member of the communist party, must hide from police. One thing he left behind is a watch which might contain a message.

Summary: A reality TV series "experiment" where 7 adults and 6 children live in a recreation of a stone-age settlement. Based on the famous Oetzi (frozen stone age man found in the alps in 1991).

Summary: Holland, late 1970s: With her parents in the middle of a fiercely contested divorce--preoccupied, like so many others of the Me Generation, with 'finding themselves'--there's no one around to pay attention to 14-year-old Heleen as she undergoes the awkward, occasionally painful transformation from girl to woman. Unsure of how to negotiate this unfamiliar new landscape, and touchingly unfamiliar with the lines dividing love, sexuality and friendship, Heleen simply plunges in--with devastating consequences.

Languages: English

Summary: Academy Award winning actor Timothy Hutton makes his first directorial debut with this heartwarming and uplifting story of an unlikely friendship between a young girl and a mentally challenged man who help each other escape the despair of their everyday lives.

Summary: After killing a child on a routine bombing mission in Vietnam, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amnesia. Returning to France, he lives like a vegetable until he meets a young girl who has been dumped by her father at a boarding school. Posing as her father, Pierre contrives to meet the girl every Sunday, to play with her and perhaps recover his memory. The innocent friendship is misread by nearly everyone, even people who know Pierre well. A classic of old French art films.

Summary: Handsome pediatric doctor feels unfulfilled, until his affection for a 12-year-old opens him to a romantic view of the world. When she falls ill, he must get closer to her, and a conflict of interests and ethics arise. His medical reputation is at stake.

Summary: Iconoclastic French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Mocky plays a washed-up race car driver in Divine Enfant. Much against his will, Mocky is put in charge of a cute orphan girl and her cuter dog. Grudgingly won over by all that cuteness, Mocky agrees to hide both girl and pooch from the authorities.

Languages: French, Dolby Digital 5.1; English, Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: She could not talk... She could not scream... She could only run...

Summary: American pharmaceutical executive Walter Richmond takes a business trip to Amsterdam, accompanied by his wife Cathryn and their 10-year-old daughter Melissa, who has been mute ever since an accident some time ago. To communicate, Melissa uses a small magic marker board that she wears around her neck. Melissa makes a trip to the ladies' room at the hotel De L'Europe and gets separated from her parents. Melissa wanders out of the hotel and onto the street, where she witnesses the murder of Simon Van Der Molen, the attorney representing Walter's Dutch client. Unfortunately, Melissa is spotted by the killers, who are hit man Bruno Decker and his employer Rudolph Hartman, who turns out to be Walter's client. Hartman had Van Der Molen killed to prevent Van Der Molen from revealing the side effects of Hartman's new medication, which he's marketing to Walter's firm. If Van Der Molen would have told Walter about the side effects, Walter would have declined the medication, and Hartman would have been out of a chance to make a lot of money. Melissa finds temporary refuge with a homeless man named Simon, then eludes Hartman by stealing a police car, which she immediately smashes into a bistro, because, of course, she doesn't know how to drive. Melissa is reunited with her parents at the hotel, but Walter innocently reveals to Hartman Melissa's recent adventures and whereabouts. Hartman tells Decker where Melissa is, and Decker pursues her from her room, down an elevator shaft, and into the suite of rock star Billy Boy Manson, who tries to sexually assault Melissa. But Decker arrives and kills Manson for getting in the way. Having escaped Manson's clutches, Melissa escapes out the window, walks the ledge and climbs through another window where she manages to evade Manson after a brief struggle in an exercise room. Returned to her anxious parents by some police detectives, she is transported by ambulance to a hospital. But Melissa isn't even safe in an ambulance: after Decker is killed, Hartman carjacks the ambulance and drives off. Can Walter and the police stop Hartman from killing Melissa before she reveals that it was Hartman and Decker who killed Van Der Molen?

Summary: In young scouts camp children play war. "Dark blue" against "green". Blackmailing each other and doing rates on low струнки partners, they reach a limit of mistrust, leading up game up to dangerous feature...

Summary: A little girl (Monika Belo-Cabanova) is sent to the cellar to fetch potatoes – she discovers a subterranean world of catacombs, black cats and sinister spuds.

Comments: A Prescription for Laughter

Summary: A light-hearted comedy for children in which the roles of doctors and nurses are played by kids, and all of the patients are adults.

Summary: A man takes his young daughter on a cross-country fly-fishing trip following the death of his father and his wife's decision to get a divorce.

Comments: Reborn for Revenge

Summary: It's 1905 when 12 year old Sophia (Hannah Marks) plays all by herself in her big, creepy house with only four handmade dolls as friends. When her abusive father (Ken Lyle) has finally had enough, he forces her to bury them in the backyard. But, after she "slips" and breaks her neck, dad buries her right along with the dolls. 100 years later, the Fillbrook family moves into the very same house. Guy Fillbrook (Jared Kusnitz) finds the buried dolls while playing in the backyard. Much like Sophia, Guy has no friends and is the constant source of harassment from Tom and Rich (Scott Seymour and Brian Lloyd). After Sophia's spirit possesses the dolls, they come to life, protecting Guy from further harm. One night, Guy's sister DeeDee (Gabrielle Docktor), has a party with her best friends Terri and Olivia (Anna Alicia Brock and Kristyn Green). After smoking and drinking with the boys, the dolls stand up for Guy once and for all, violently showing the nasty teenage boys who's boss! With no testosterone left to protect them, the girls fight to the death!

Comments: They want to play with you.

Summary: A group of travelers spend the night in the mansion of an elderly couple who are dollmakers. However, one of the travelers' children discovers that the dolls the couple makes are actually humans that the couple has miniaturized and turned into tools for their evil plans.

Languages: English

Comments: It's time to play...

Summary: An American family moves to Mexico to fabricate dolls, but their toy factory happens to be next to a Satan grave and the toys come into possession of an old, malicious spirit.

Summary: Dramatic family school children's film, with subtle underlying Soviet propaganda. When a school class is split up into smaller groups, all kinds of conspiracies occur. When much to his despair Marik's pet comrade, a big black dog, suddenly disappears, he searches everywhere to no avail.

Meanwhile Olga, a new girl arrives in class, and is not accepted because of her short hair and boyish appearance. The "class queen", a fair skinned blonde, convices her that in order to be accepted, Olya must visit a house where supposedly a big ghost lives.

She accepts, and in the house, instead of finding a ghost, she encounters a friendly black beast... The children's game is over and painfully becomes clear that, without proper guidance, how cruel children can be toward eachother.

Summary: 11-year-old Domenica is of unknown parentage and lives in an orphanage in Naples. A year ago, Domenica was raped. The suspected rapist has leapt to his death following interrogation at police headquarters and Domenica has been asked to identify her alleged assailant. Today is Inspector Sciarra's last day in service. Fatally ill and world-weary, Sciarra doesn't think much of having to take the girl to the morgue and is more than a little reluctant to carry out this particular task. When Domenica manages to slip away from him, the inspector sets off in hot pursuit through the streets of Naples. Finally catching up with her, the unavoidable trip to the morgue must go ahead. The dead man turns out not to have been the man that raped Domenica; moreover, it transpires that the police have long been aware of this fact...

Summary: A prank played on a young girl by her sisters inadvertently results in her death during a car accident. The child comes back from the dead for revenge on her family.

Comments: No rules. No curfews. No nagging. No pulse.

Summary: In the last of the 80's style fancy-free comedies, several kids are left home when their parents go on a three-month vacation, only to have their geriatric babysitter die of a heart attack.

Summary: Grandpa (Koo Chuen) and Grandma (Mei Fong) live in the fertile Taiwanese countryside. A boy (Wang Chi-Kwang) and his sister (Sun Cheeng-Lee) are packed off to their grandparents when their mother falls ill. Though relationships are strained at first, the boy and girl end up having a wonderful summer with grandpa, as the old man takes them on fishing trips and helps them in their search for a lost cow. Summer At Grandpa's didn't have a very long theatrical life in Taiwan, though it proved more successful on the international scene. The film's original title was Tung-Tung-Te-Chia-Ch'i, which in itself is reason enough to see it.

Languages: Dutch, French, Arabic

Summary: Farouzi is a twelve year old Dutch-Arabic girl, working as a fish processor. The little boys who also work there bully her, but she doesn't care. All she cares about is her donkey Soufiane. One day a girl on a scooter arrives in the village.. There is an instant attraction and Farouzi decides to go to the beach and try look for this charismatic western girl...

Comments: Life is one long insane trip. Some people just have better directions.

Summary: Donnie Darko gets along badly with his family, with his teachers and with his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him; and he has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, who is either a large purple bunny, or man in a large purple bunny costume. Either way, Donnie is the only one who can see him. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his room, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie's escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie's mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.

Languages: English, French,

Comments: The most dangerous secrets are the ones we're afraid to tell ourselves.

Summary: Set in the beach community of East Hampton, New York, one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children's books author Ted Cole and his beautiful wife Marion is chronicled. Their once-great marriage has been strained by tragedy. The Coles lovingly parent their surviving child, bright 4-year-old Ruth, who takes everything in stride as perhaps only a child can. But Marion's equation of love with loss, coupled with Ted's infidelities, points towards a much-needed change in the relationship. That may come in the form of Eddie O'Hare, the young man Ted hires to work as his summer assistant--and, Ted hopes, the catalyst to invigorate the Coles' bond of marriage. Eddie idolizes Ted, but Ted's erratic work habits soon leave Eddie to his own devices. Marion becomes an object of desire for Eddie, rekindling in her some surprising emotions as a mother and as a woman. To Eddie's surprise and delight, his yearning is potently reciprocated. As he becomes passionately entwined with the seemingly fragile yet increasingly bold Marion, Eddie comes to realize that, similarly, Ted's surface fecklessness hides something deeper within. As the summer draws to a close, Marion and Ted must make difficult decisions about the future of their family.

Languages: Dutch

Summary: Very short little film. 'Doornroosje' is the dutch word for Sleeping Beauty. We enter a hospital ward. Father is reading this fairy tale to his daughter and mum, who is in a coma. Father tries to explain why mum can't hear them, but the daughter has reasons to believe she can.

Languages: English

Summary: Francine is 14 years old and lives in an apartment with her mother and stepfather who we don't see but hear shouting. Francine is insecure. Accross the hall lives Polly, a 34-year-old photographer who befriends Francine. They spend a lot of time together. A hallway in an anonymous, worn-out building. Two doors opposite each other. A young girl and a woman, both lonely and needy. They are friends with each other. But what kind of friendship is it? And who is dependent of who?

Summary: Two nine-year-old girls—rude Luise from Vienna, and respectful shy Lotte Körner from Munich—meet on a summer camp in Bohrlaken on Lake Bohren. Luise has curly hair; Lotte wears braids. Apart from that, they look alike.

They have never seen each other before, but soon find out that they are twins. It turns out that their parents divorced, each keeping one of the girls. The two girls decide that it was unfair that neither of them has ever been told that she is a twin, or that her other parent is still living. They decided to trade places at the end of the summer so that Lotte will have a chance to get to know her father and Luise will get to meet her mother. Lotte makes her hair curly, and Luise ties hers in braids. And both go off to where they have never been before. The adventure begins.

While many adults are surprised at the changes in each of the girls as they arrive home from camp ("Lotte" has suddenly forgotten how to cook, gets in a fight at school, and becomes a terrible student, while "Luise" has begun to keep a close eye on the housekeepers bookkeeping, will no longer eat her favorite food, and becomes a model student), no one suspects that the girls are not who they claim to be.

When Lotte (pretending to be Luise) finds out that her father is planning to remarry, she becomes very ill and stops writing to her sister in Munich.

Meanwhile, Lotte's mother comes across a picture of the two girls that was taken while they were at summer camp. She quickly realizes what has happened and Luise tells her the entire story. The discovery turns out to have come just in time. The girls' mother calls her ex-husband in Vienna to tell him what has happened and to find out why Lotte has stopped writing. When she hears that her daughter is ill, she and Luise immediately travel to Vienna to be with her.

The four of them (mother, father, Luise and Lotte) are still in Vienna for the girls' birthday. The girls tell their parents that they don't need any presents on this birthday or ever again as long as they don't have to be separated again. The parents talk it over and realize that they are still in love and decide to get married.

Summary: Thomas (Forrest Landis) is a 12-year-old boy who's known for telling outrageously tall tales until one day he overhears a plot to kidnap the President's daughter. When he goes public with the story, no one will believe him, so he is forced to save her with the help of his friend Jackie (AnnaSophia Robb).

Languages: French, Dolby Digital 5.1; English, Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: Sometimes it's hard to find your way...

Summary: Set in the present-day San Fernando Valley, the project revolves around a delusional man who believes he's a cowboy and the relationship that he starts with a rebellious young woman.

Languages: English

Summary: Leah Garr wants to move from Phoenix to take a new job in Denver to help her family (Husband Marcus and Daughter Robin). When Robin goes to camp to give her parents time to sort things out, something unexpected occurs. On Robin's return from camp she finds out her mom is taking the new job in Denver, only returning each weekend to visit. During this turmoil in Robin's life, A new lady, Dorothy, befriends Robin, moves into the same apartment complex and spends a lot of time with her and her father Marcus. Leah is concerned about this because she does not know very much about Dorothy or her intentions. It soon becomes clear that Dorothy is after much more than friendship with the Garr family.

Summary: Damion Dracula lives in a big house with his Siamese twin daughters and his staff. Agaath, his half-sister, and her daughter Florentina come over to stay for a few days. After that, two young female tourists also end up in his house. Dracula organizes a big party for his friends. When the party is going on, all kinds of terrible things start to happen and finally all hell breaks loose.

Comments: Secret thoughts... That led to secret love... That led to rapture and terror!

Summary: In 1844, farmer's daughter Miranda Wells is invited by Nicholas Van Ryn, distant relation, to live in his mansion as companion to his daughter. Arriving in high hopes, Miranda finds the Van Ryns a bit strange. The parents barely know daughter Katrine; Nicholas faces a revolt of his tenant farmers; the servants hint darkly of curses and visitations. And what does Nicholas really do up in his tower room?

Summary: This 1985 film from Britain offers up the only possible reason the extraordinary British writer Dennis Potter could be involved with a project also featuring the talents of Jim Henson's Muppets. The subject is the awkward relationship between Charles Dodgson (Ian Holm), better known to the world as Lewis Carroll, and Alice Liddell (played by Coral Browne as an adult), as it was in the 19th century when Liddell inspired Carroll to create "Alice In Wonderland" and "Alice Through the Looking Glass". The full account of that bond is finally told by Alice in 1932, as she arrives in New York City to participate in the 100th anniversary of Dodgson's birth. Flustered by press and public attention, Alice releases her repressed memories from that time, and Henson's factory does a wonderful job creating bold realizations of the author's characters and settings. Both dark and light, "Dreamchild" is a mesmerizing spectacle with inner portraits of two quite dissimilar but equally vulnerable people. Holm is excellent as the stammering, often ridiculed Dodgson. "--Tom Keogh"

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French, Dolby Digital 5.1

Summary: Ben Crane was once a great horseman, whose gifts as a trainer, were wasted on making other men's fortunes. Sonya was once a great horse, whose promising career on the racetrack was cut short, suddenly, by a broken leg. Considered as good as dead to her owner--who also happens to be Ben's boss--Sonya is given to Ben as his severance pay, along with his walking papers. Now, it will take the unwavering faith and determination of Ben's young daughter, Cale, to bring these two damaged souls together in a quest for a seemingly impossible goal: to win the Breeders' Cup Classic. However, the true miracle might be that, in helping this injured horse, what they are actually healing is their own family.

Summary: François, a hung-up young man, locks up Madeleine, a teenage girl, in an attic. François is an outcast, unable to integrate well into a society. Here begins an "in Camera" drama, with subtle developments. Soon, we do not know anymore who the prisoner is and who the jailer is. An inhibited person, François is completely baffled when Madeleine tells him that she wants to be pregnant by him. As some critics noticed when the movie was released, the keyword is "games". The two characters seem to play dad and daughter, dad and mom, and so on.... The ending, however, is bound to be tragic..

Madeleine Desdevises,who was very promising,died from leukemia shortly afterwards.

Comments: Director's Cut, Special Edition

Summary: A drama about a boy who's inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and challenges repressive school authority in 1969 Denmark.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Comments: The battle between the good and the bad is bound to get ugly.

Summary: The local boosters of Mount Rose, Minnesota proudly invite you to watch as their annual celebration of civic pride, wholesome achievement, teenage innocence and spirited camaraderie all go up in flames over the course of one nasty, back-stabbing beauty contest. The story probes the heart of a small Minnesota town where a fictional teen beauty pageant has unleashed a fury of ladylike behavior. Here in the hallowed American heartland--amidst the cow fields, pork sausage factories and Lutheran churches, going after the tiara is not just a fairy-tale dream: it's all out war. Everyone involved in the contest--mothers, daughters, boyfriends--knows only one thing counts and it isn't talent, physical fitness, current events or sportsmanship. It's being Number One, "yah, you betcha!" Because in Mount Rose, you win any way you can.

Comments: Nu kommer NYA Madicken!

Summary: A provincial town in the early 1920's Madicken is a 7-year-old girl's self invented pet name for Margaretha. We follow her always curious, mostly joyous walk through family, school and community life in and around June Hill where she lives with her little sister Lisabet.

Summary: A sexually-troubled young man runs away from home, while a girl wakes up one morning with a single cyclops breast.

Summary: The universally recognized topic of this light comedy is the struggle between refusing to fall in love only to be rejected, and falling in love, regardless. After a computer operator (Richard Bohringer) has been through a painful relationship, he is determined to look the other way every time any interesting woman enters his life. He has his other loves -- photography and model planes -- to challenge him anyway, though his mother is not about to understand how a model plane can replace a woman in his life. One day, a car breaks down in front of his house, and a young mother (Catherine Frot) with her 10-year-old daughter (Anne Clignet) come in looking for assistance. The daughter is endearing and would make a terrific subject for a photo contest. As both the young mother and the computer operator studiously ignore the flicker of romantic sparks, it is only a matter of time before the flame either grows or is extinguished.

Summary: Eleven year old Ulrike thinks she needs a replacement father, and decides to match her mom with a labourer.

Summary: Dubravka is a wild, boyish Crimean girl who is struggling not to lose her childhood dreams and illusions while discovering the adult world that is so often mean, cruel and unfair. Yet some things, like friendship, endure beyond. The movie's strong is in staying a children's movie while frankly showing adult and family problems. Some scenes are very powerful.

Summary: Kalli, a young boy who is brought up by a single mother in the suburbs of Reykjavik gets most of his life experiences through screens: movies, television shows, and computers. When he is sent to spend Christmas with his father and his new family at a remote and isolated farm, the story takes him out of that world and puts him in one where he has to fight "real life" challenges.