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BIFF 2011 Presents: Marathon Boy
- Genre : Biography, Documentary, Drama
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MARATHON BOY is the story of a four-year-old boy who is plucked from the slums of India by his coach and trained to become India's greatest runner, but what starts as a real Slumdog Millionaire turns into the stuff of film noir: a tale of greed, envy and broken dreams.
Producer
Gemma Atwal & Matt Norman
BIFF 2011 Presents: Toy Soldier
- Genre : Drama
- Rating :
Magnus' grief consumes him whilst Ava - his girlfriend come nuse - is tiring of the drudgery. Along with Aubrey, an old friend, Ava seeks to bring Magnus back to life.
Principal Cast: Jeremy Bliss, Niels Schneider, Zoe Le Ber
Producer: Jeremy Bliss and Robin Robles with Gal Greenspan and Roi Kurland in assocation with Colette Crespin
BIFF 2011 Presents: Real Voodoo
- Genre : Documentary
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In January 2010, a few days after Haiti suffered a massive earthquake, American evangelical leader Pat Robertson took to the airwaves to blame the devastation on Haitians’ pact with the devil He was talking about Voodoo. And he isn’t the first American to disparage Voodoo. Over the last hundred years, tens of thousands of American Christians have travelled to Haiti to convert the “heathens....
BIFF 2011 Presents: Zero Percent
- Genre : Documentary, Drama
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Director Tim Skousen offers a rare glimpse inside the notorious Sing Sing Correctional Facility, where men are finding hope and transformation through the Hudson Link program, one of the only college-degree-granting programs in New York’s Department of Corrections. The program, which is sponsored through individual donations, is rigorous. While 60 percent of the nation’s convicts fall into rec...
BIFF 2011 Presents: VIPs
BIFF 2011 Presents: VIPs
- Genre : Drama
- Rating :
Marcelo (Wagner Moura, Elite Squad), an average teenager, always wanted to be someone…else. Always impersonating those around him and dreaming of traveling the world and living the high life as a pilot like his father, he runs away from home. But what begins as just another flight of fancy will send Marcelo from seamy criminal underworld to the glamorous world of high society. Changing everythin...
BIFF 2011 Presents: Y-ning?
- Genre : Documentary, Music, Short
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This academic music video explores “wining” as a dance language with a history and identity born out of the Caribbean experience. In particular, it looks at the body in motion as well as elements of Trinidadian society that are represented in the way people dance and the various ethnic influences on the dance itself.
BIFF 2011 Presents: Thief
- Genre : Drama
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THIEF tells the haunting story of Mehdi, an Iraqi boy who unwittingly befriends the young Saddam Hussein in 1959. Over forty years later, in 2003, the two men come face-to-face a second time, and Mehdi must weigh his desire for revenge against his need to make peace with the past.
Principal Cast:
Maz Siam, Muneer Katchi, Yousif Alshekh, Ayman Samman, Sana Étoile, Mohamad Tamimi
BIFF 2011 Presents: The Haymaker
- Genre : Drama, Short
- Rating :
An uninspired youth joins a gym to prove his mother wrong but doubts himself after he realizes who the trainer is.
Principal Cast
Trevor Morgan, Tim Covington, Susan Floyd
BIFF 2011 Presents: The Rum Diary [Opening Night Film]
- Genre : Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
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Paul Kemp is a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean. Paul is challenged on many levels as he tries to carve out a more secure niche for himself amidst a group of lost souls all bent on self-destruction.
Principal Cast:
Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli, Amber Heard, Richard Jenkins, Giov...
BIFF 2011 Presents: The Burnt Cook
- Genre : Short
- Rating :
In 1950's rural Australia, Matthew and his wife live on a remote sheep station. Their quiet lives begin to unravel when it is discovered that Matthew has fathered a child to an Aboriginal woman who lives on the station. When a policeman arrives, Matthew is faced with a critical decision.
Principal Cast:
Jack Campbell, Kyas Sherriff, Amber McMahon, Laurence Coy
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