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BIFF 2011 Presents: Breakaway [Closing Night Film]
- Genre : Comedy, Drama, Sport
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BREAKAWAY, is a cross-cultural hockey drama set in the Indo-Canadian community in suburban Toronto, Canada. The movie is a full action, colourful, humourous, heart-felt musical. The setting is an obstacle-strewn love story with a dramatic quest for the hero. It’s also a keenly observed cross-cultural drama in the same classification as Bend It Like Beckham and Slumdog Millionaire with a hero cau...
BIFF 2011 Presents: Bringing Up Bobby
- Genre : Comedy, Family
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Bringing Up Bobby is the story of a European con-artist and her son Bobby, who find themselves in Oklahoma in an effort to escape her past and build a better future. Olive and Bobby blithely charm their way from one adventure to another until Olive's criminal past catches up with her. Consequently, she must make a choice: continue with a life of crime or leave the person she loves most in an effor...
BIFF 2011 Presents: Fambul Tok
- Genre : Documentary
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Victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone’s brutal war come together for the first time in an unprecedented reconciliation program of tradition-based truth-telling and forgiveness ceremonies.
Principal Cast
John Caulker
Producers
Sara Terry, Rory Kennedy, Libby Hoffman
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
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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
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