| 44th
WorldFest-Houston International Independent Film Festival April 8-17, 2011 |
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THE
2011 WORLDFEST FEATURE FILM SCREENING SCHEDULE - with trailers! -
ver.03.26.11
All Shows are at the AMC STUDIO 30 - 2949 Dunvale!
(the
Alphabetical Listing of the 2011 Feature
Films with Showtimes, Format, Director, Country &
Mini-Synopsis is now posted!)
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IPREMIERE
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CONDIRECTORTACT |
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Opening Night
Festival Premiere |
Ankush
Kohli & Chad Waterhouse
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USA |
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| Starring
Rosanna Arquette & Jesse James! Producer by Michael Baumgarten (Line Producer), Ankush Kohli, Producer Set in 1974 Texas, three teen siblings struggle with the death of their father and try to live with their abusive mother. When one of the teens is sent away because the mother can't cope with his autism, the oldest of the siblings devises a plan to get their brother back and embark on a life changing adventure across the Southwest in their deceased father's station wagon. In their attempt to find their grandmother's home thousands of miles away, they find themselves confronted with detours that ultimately slow them down, but thrust them into a coming of age journey to be remembered. |
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Closing Film |
Greg Swartz |
USA |
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| Frank is in a nursing home and makes friends with three ladies, each of who is coming to terms with end-of-life issues. Ernest Borgnine, Anna Meara, Piper Laurie, Doris Roberts | ||||
Another Planet |
Festival Premiere |
Ferenc Moldovanyi |
HUNGARY |
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| A documentary about children who struggle to survive as trash scavengers, soldiers and sex workers. | ||||
Festival Premiere |
Juanita Wilson |
IRELAND/BOSNIA |
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| A modern war story set in Bosnia that explores love, identity, and the connections between us (Stellan Skarsgård) | ||||
USA Premiere |
Sermiyan Midyat |
TURKEY |
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| A clash of cultures ensues when Turkish Ibrahim and American Jessica have their families first meet in a Kurdish village of Tinne, that was ignored and not listed by the records of the area. .(Mariel Hemingway, Steve Guttenberg) | ||||
Backstabber |
Festival Premiere |
Chuck Walker |
USA |
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An
investment firm's team-building weekend on a small island goes horribly
wrong when people start to go missing and the team member suddenly
realize survival becomes the first order of business. |
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Panorama Italia |
Rocco Pappaleo |
ITALY |
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| A music group and a journalist cross the region of Basilicata by foot to attend a music festival. (Alessandro Gassman) | ||||
USA Premiere |
Jura Jakusbisko |
SLOVAKIA |
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| Countess Bathory, the alleged greatest murderess of all time actually had a very dramatic personal story of protecting her legacy after the death of her Crusader warrior husband (Anna Friel, Karel Roden) | ||||
| Chinese
Whisper |
USA Premiere |
Mathias Tiefenbacher |
GERMANY |
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| Rumours
of a teacher’s affair with a student tests the teacher’s marriage.
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USA Premiere |
Florian Cossen |
GERMANY |
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| On a stop-over in Buenos Aires, Maria, 31,discovers that she was adopted by her German parents during a period of tumult in Argentina when her biological parents were abducted and killed…so Maria begins a search to find out the whole truth. | ||||
Day of Ants
in the Sky, The |
USA Premiere |
Akira Nobi |
JAPAN |
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| An unlikely pair of young Japanese assasins fall in love but how and where can they escape their fate…? | ||||
Death By
Medicine |
World Premiere |
Gary Null |
USA |
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| A documentary about the failing current medical paradigm. | ||||
World Premiere |
Michael Madison |
USA |
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| A young man back from Iraq finds that in order to help his mother keep their home, he must deal with an underworld of art deals where he becomes an unwilling pawn.(Robert Rusler) Alana Stewart is attending the Premiere and will have a Q&A. | ||||
Panorama Italia |
Edoardo Leo |
ITALY |
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| Two brothers - separated for 18 years, become reconciled on a road-trip in their father s classic Morgan Sports Roadster, to place his ashes beside their Mother's grave. | ||||
| Far Away Eyes | World Premiere |
Stanley J. Orzel |
HONG KONG/USA |
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| Far
Away Eyes examines the ultimate question of 'what is the price of
love?'' when four skilled assassins meet in Hong Kong to resolve unfinished
business, (starring Will Yun Lee and Miguel Ferrer) |
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World Premiere |
Jennifer Tadlock |
USA |
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| Based on Rev. Minassian's true story of taking his ministry to the street gangs in Fresno, and effectively changing the lives of over 1800 gang kids at risk.(Michael Badalucco, Avan Jogia, Tia Texada) | ||||
| Floating
Shadow, The |
Festival Premiere |
Jia Dongshuo |
CHINA (PRC) |
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| Young and beautiful and in jail, Zhan Han has the help of policewoman Hao Ruping to sort out the haunting past of why she came to kill the husband that she loved. | ||||
World Premiere |
Joseph Meissner |
USA |
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| Life in New Orleans one year after Hurricane Katrina that includes characters as diverse and eccentric as the city itself. | ||||
Fort McCoy |
Festival Premiere |
Kate Connor & Michael Worth |
TEXAS |
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| The story of a family that moves to Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, which was a US prisoner of war camp during WWII. (Eric Stoltz, Camryn Manheim, Kate Connor, Seymour Cassel, Lyndsy Fonseca, Brendan Fehr) | ||||
Festival Premiere |
Marc Goldstein |
BELGIUM/FRANCE |
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| Rival concert pianists, Henry & Jack battle for the affection of the beautiful Lana and when Jack injures his hand, he discovers that his domestic robot, Glenn can also play piano exceedingly well but Glenn soon begins some dangeroujs machinations. | ||||
RETROSPECT |
Randal Kleiser |
USA |
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| A tribute to Randal Kleiser with a sing-along version of his ever popular film Grease.(John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John) Kleiser will attend to intro this classic film! | ||||
World Premiere |
Yuval Ovadia, Or Yashar |
ISRAEL |
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A man is sent to Earth on a mysterious mission and is caught trying to infiltrate the Mossad’s most highly classified facility. |
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Panorama Italia |
Laura Luchetti |
USA |
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| A group of Roman misfits spend the fall minding a vintage shop that is failing in every way but spirit. | ||||
Festival Premiere |
Chris Page |
TEXAS |
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| A documentary about powered paragliding adventures from Utah to Moscow. | ||||
Festival Premiere |
Alex Traiman |
USA / IRAN |
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| Iranium is a timely documentary that presents the dangerous scenarios posed to the Free World by a nuclear Iran. It exposes the dangerous ideology guiding the Iranian Regime. | ||||
World Premiere |
Harry Thomason |
USA |
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| A poignant look at the last few days in the life of Country Western legend, Hank Williams.(Henry Thomas, Kaley Cuoco, Stephen Tobolowsky,Ray McKinnon, Fred Thompson) | ||||
World Premiere |
Jake Torem |
USA |
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| Joel Slater has a hard time letting go of anything, but reconsiders when he hears of his girlfriend’s plan to move in order to start a new life.( David Foster, Bokeem Woodbine, Christopher Knight) | ||||
World Premiere |
Jeff Topham |
CANADA |
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| Canadian photographer brothers return to war torn Liberia to re-create their father’s photos from the 1970’s. | ||||
Festival Premiere |
Jan Kidawa-Blonski |
POLAND |
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| A love triangle set in the Poland of 1968 where a young woman, a dissident writer and a communist security service agent all must fight for their right to live authentic lives. | ||||
Festival Premiere |
Chanda Chevannes |
CANADA |
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| Ecologist and cancer survivor, Dr Sandra Stengraber Ph.D., breaks the silence about cancer and its environmental links. | ||||
Festival Premiere |
Jessica Hausner |
AUSTRIA |
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| In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains. | ||||
World Premiere |
Nichola Bruce |
ENGLAND UK |
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| Photographer Steve Pyke sets out on a journey across the US in his search to meet and photograph the Apollo space pioneers. | ||||
World Premiere |
Dan Jackson |
USA |
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| A young rodeo clown comes across increasing evidence of drug dealings in his small east Texas hometown, and then the dirty deals begin to hit closer to home than he could ever have imagined. (Tyler Hoechlin, Agnes Bruckner) | ||||
| USA Premiere | Daniel Young |
SWITZERLAND |
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| A close-up look at a Mother-Daughter relationship involving the break-up of a marriage and an ex-convict and a hidden betrayal.(Rachael Blake, Laura Greenwood. Evin Nagy) | ||||
Festival Premiere |
Tom Vaughn |
HOUSTON |
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| A stunning temptress moves in with a newlywed couple and is determined to have her own dark version of the American dream. Shot in Houston. | ||||
Festival Premiere |
Rob Del Gaudio |
USA |
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| A documentary details the lack of oversight, planning and leadership within the Transportation Security Administration. | ||||
Festival Premiere |
Kevin Knoblock |
USA |
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| The much heralded 1979 visit of Pope John Paul II back to his home country of Poland when it was still under the oppresive Communist regime. | ||||
World Premiere |
Shawn Welling |
HOUSTON |
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| A house which has had generations of hauntings is covered up by the FBI, but our determined hero must find out why… |
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Festival Premiere |
Henry Jaglom |
USA |
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| Maggie Chase wants fame and fortune and is very determined to get it.(Tanna Frederick, Noah Wyle, Peter Bogdanovich, David Proval) Tanna Frederick & Dir. Jaglom planning to attend the Premiere and have a Q&A. | ||||
Festival Premiere |
Claudio Cupellini |
ITALY/GERMANY/ FRANCE |
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| A Mafia boss tries to retire from his Italian mob past in a quiet German country town, but his violent past catches up with him. | ||||
Festival Premiere |
John Alan Simon |
USA |
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| Beloved Sci-Fi writer, Philip K. Dick’s autobiographical novel, Radio Free Albemuth eerily depicts an alternate USA reality where President Nixon headed a corrupt & totalitarian government that our plucky heroes attempt to overthrow. (Alanis Morissette, Shea Whigham,Katheryn Winnick, Hanna Hall, Ashely Greene) Sound Familiar? | ||||
World Premiere |
Alan Chan |
TEXAS |
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| A young Texas cowgirl must save her homestead from the evil banker and falls in love with a Texas ranger assigned to her case. | ||||
World Premiere |
Andrew Walkington |
ENGLAND UK |
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An
exposition of a surreal, dark, and disturbing twist on a world in
which the powers that be prescribe a cure for the youth of today.(Brian
Blessed) |
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World Premiere |
Bob Willams |
HOUSTON |
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| The undead Renfield clashes with a resurrected Dracula right here in Bayou City in a gory fight to the finish. | ||||
World Premiere |
Tim Langford, Shakir Abal |
KUWAIT |
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| The travels across the Arab world of the cast and crew of an Arabic production of Richard III, a play that uncannily reflects the surrounding politics and turmoil. | ||||
Ringing Ball,
The |
North American Premiere |
M. Egemen Erturk |
TURKEY |
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| A soccer team of visually challenged members practices for the Special Olympics and is trained by a famous ex-soccer player who has alcohol problems, a beautiful girlfriend and thugs on his trail for bad debts to the mob. The director will attend the premiere! | ||||
Festival Premiere |
Louis Belanger |
CANADA |
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| Gilles has just lost his young son and in his deep grief he suddenly takes up with Bob, a small-time crook and soon the two are on the road : destination unknown. | ||||
Struggle,
The |
USA Premiere |
Manfred Stelzer |
GERMANY |
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| Two brothers must deal with different struggles: one is a fisherman’ whose harvest is being stolen by birds, and the other is a tea expert who has lost his sense of taste. | ||||
World Premiere |
Trisha Ray |
INDIA/USA |
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| Set in Calcutta, India, this is the story of three street singers, two record producers, one assassin and one baby. | ||||
World Premiere |
Paul Aldridge, Tom Borden |
USA |
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| A documentary that explores the unlikely marriage of two uniquely American pastimes – fundamentalist Christianity and professional wrestling. |
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World Premiere |
Nilantha Hapanweera |
SRI LANKA |
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| Theja becomes the reluctant heroine of workers' struggles to unionize the seamstress factory where she works. | ||||
Panorama Italia |
Marco Chianini |
ITALY |
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| 11 year-old Simone and 13 year-old Lorenza spend a magical summer trying to find the fantastical thin match man. | ||||
World Premiere |
Nick Lawrence |
USA |
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| Terminally ill Randall Zimmerman loves working in parking enforcement, and wants nothing more than to live out his final days in peace. His family and friends, however, have other ideas. | ||||
Festival Premiere |
Francois Delisle |
CANADA |
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| Catherine escapes her violent husband and starts a new life in a small rural village with her teenage son. | ||||
Festival Premiere |
Niki Caro |
NEW ZEALAND / FRANCE |
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| Sobran Jodeau, a 19th century French peasant strives to follow his calling of becoming a talented vintner and has an angel as his mentor. Cheers! | ||||
World Premiere |
Yong Mun Chee |
SINGAPORE / INDONESIA/ USA |
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| The story of four men whose lives intersect at a rundown Hollywood hotel.(Eric Mabius,Will Yun Lee, Laura Ramsey) | ||||
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