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Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Cast:  Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Faridah Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche, Bouraouia Marzouk

One of the most outstanding and critically acclaimed French films of the year comes from celebrated director Abdellatif Kechiche, whose L′esquive stormed the Cesars (French Oscars) in 2005, winning four awards including Best Film.  This new drama - a touching and resoundingly humanistic story set in a small harbour in the southeast of France - cements his reputation.  Set in the rustic port of Sète (superbly captured by the atmospheric cinematography of Lubomir Bakchev), The Secret of the Grain follows Slimane, whose growing dissatisfaction with the shipyard job he′s had for the last 35 years, prompts him to try to open his own restaurant.  His dream seems unbelievable, but his contagious conviction and persistence work their way into the hearts of his loyal but dispersed family; the four children from his first marriage, his ex-wife, current girlfriend and her bright, outspoken daughter, Rym (played to great acclaim by the stunning newcomer Hafsia Herzi).  A grand film about ordinary people, The Secret of the Grain is a slow-burning drama drenched with humanity (and - naturally - some mouth-watering meals), in the tradition of Babette′s Feast and Eat Drink Man Woman.  This is a cinema experience not to be missed.

WINNER 2007 LOUIS DELLUC PRIZE
WINNER 2007 SPECIAL JURY PRIZE  &  FIPRESCI COMPETITION PRIZE -  VENICE FILM FESTIVAL
NOMINATED 2007 GOLDEN LION VENICE FILM FESTIVAL
WINNER BEST FILM , BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY  & WINNER BREAKTHROUGH ACTRESS  -  33RD ANNUAL CESAR AWARDS

Director: Fatih Akin
Cast:  Baki Davrak, Nursel Kose, Nurgul Yesilcay, Hanna Schygulla

Winner of The Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, The Edge of Heaven is Fatih Akin's fifth feature.  Recently nominated as the German entry for Best Foreign Film Academy Awards 2008, this film is sure to engage and enthral audiences.

Retired widower Ali, a Turkish immigrant living in the German city of Breman, believes to have found a solution to his loneliness as he meets Turkey-born prostitute Yeter[2].

He offers her a monthly payment to quit whoring and move in. After receiving threats from two radical Islamic Turkish thugs, she decides to accept his offer. His son Nejat, a professor of German literature, initially disapproves of Ali's choice of Yeter as a live-in girlfriend. However, he grows fond of her when he discovers that she sends money back home to Turkey for her daughter's college education.

Following an unexpected tragedy, a college professor, Nejat, travels from Hamburg to Istanbul to find Ayten, the Turkish daughter of his father's friend who he wants to help financially.  Unbeknownst to him, Ayten had travelled to Hamburg searching for her mother.  Nejat learns later that she was deported from Germany for her activism and has since become a political prisoner.  Ayten's German friend Lotte and her mother Susanne become entangled in the consequences.Susanne offers her a place to stay with her at Nejat's house.

Despite crossing paths several times throughout the film, neither Ayten's search for her mother nor Nejat's search for Ayten are ever resolved.
Following emotional moments with Susanne, Nejat journeys to reunite with his father, and the film ends with his wating on the shore for him to come back from fishing in the Black Sea. The open-ended conclusion leaves open the possibility that he would return to Istanbul to find Ayten staying in his own home - but also that some new chance event would again prevent his finding her

Director: John Curran
Cast:  Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Liev Screiber, Toby Jones

Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, and set against the visually stunning backdrop of China during one of its most dramatic periods of upheaval, The Painted Veil tells a unique love story of an estranged husband and wife who find redemption and unexpected grace in a very unlikely place. 

The year is 1925, and Kitty (Naomi Watts) is an upper class London socialite closing in on an age when a proper lady must find a husband.  To remain unwed much longer would be highly unbecoming, not to mention humiliating for her exceedingly socially conscious mother.  Bored with her priviledged lifestyle anyway and yearning for escape, Kitty accepts a proposal of marriage from Dr. Walter Fane (Edward Norton), a quiet, serious bacteriologist who moves the new couple to Shanghai.  In the strange city - which is blossoming into the centre of popular culture, political intrigue and vice in China - the Fanes venture out into British colonial society, where they are introduced to English Vice Consul Charles Townsend (Liev Screiber).

While Walter dedicates himself to his work and to his new wife, Kitty embarks on an adulterous affair with Charlie.  After Walter learns of her indescretion, he accepts a job in a remote village in China ravaged by the deadly cholera epidemic.  Seized by vengeance, he forces a despondent Kitty to accompany him.  After the Fanes arrive in the village of Mei-tan-fu, the couple's wintry isolation continues. Kitty befriends a neighbour, Deputy Commissioner Waddington (Toby Jones), and the emotional trappings of her former life slowly fall away as she begins to confront the reality of her surroundings.  Amid the human wreckage of the cholera epidemic, which has given both spouses new purpose, Kitty and Walter discover forgiveness, understanding, even tenderness- and rediscover each other.

Director: Claude Miller
Cast:  Ludivine Sagnier, Cecile de France, Patrick Bruel, Julie Depardieu, Mathieu Amalric

This is not a typical World War II story.  Un Secret is a tale of the human heart – the exploration of a dark family secret and a story of passionate love: it’s about lust, jealousy and betrayal set in ruthless times.  Based on the autobiographical book by Philippe Grimbert, Un Secret is the true story of a French-Jewish family, as told through the eyes of Francois.

Director Claude Miller sets his film across several timelines.  It begins in 1955 with Francois shown as the only child of an athletic father who’s clearly disappointed with his scrawny son and the boy’s own imagined history of his mother and father’s romance.  On Francois’ fifteenth birthday, a family friend’s shocking revelations finally enable the young boy to move on and build his life.  The film then jumps to 1985 with the adult Francois narrating the discovery of his parents’ disturbing, unpredictable secret, which silently eats into the relationships between the central characters. 

“Un Secret has a vaguely dream-like feel, and recreates the period as only the French can do.  The cast is pure perfection and the attention to detail immaculate….  It’s a tragic and depressing tale, but it lingers in your mind for hours.  See it with a friend – there’s too much to discuss after the credits roll to see it alone.”  Annette Basile,  Filmink

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Cast:  Karl Markovics,  August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach, August Zirner

The true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian.  After getting arrested in a German concentration camp in 1944, he agrees to help the Nazis in an organised counterfeit operation set up to help finance the war effort. 

It was the biggest counterfeit money scam of all time.  Over 130 million pounds sterling were printed, under conditions that couldn't have been more tragic or spectacular.  During the last years of the war, as the German Reich saw that the end was near, the authorities decided to produce their own banknotes in the currencies of their major war enemies.  They hoped to use the duds to flood the enemy economy and fill the empty war coffers. 

At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, two barracks were separated from the rest of the camp and the outside world, and transformed into a fully equipped counterfeiter’s workshop. ‘Operation Bernhard’ was born.  Prisoners were brought to Sachsenhausen from other camps to implement the plan: professional printers, fastidious bank officials and simple craftsmen all became members of the top-secret counterfeiter commando.  They had the choice: if they cooperated with the enemy, they had a chance to survive, as first-class prisoners in a ‘golden cage’ with enough to eat and a bed to sleep in.  If they sabotaged the operation, a sure death awaited them.  For the Counterfeiters, it was not only a question of saving their own lives, but also about saving their conscience as well!