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ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW
EE.UU./Gran Bretaña, 2005, 90’, 35 mm

Director: Miranda July
Producer: Gina Kwon
Script: Miranda July
Cinematography: Guy Chávez
Edition: Andrew Dickler,
Charles Ireland
Music: Mike Andrews, Ryeland Allison
Cast: John Hawkes,
Miranda July, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff, Carlie Westerman

Christine Jesperson is a lonely artist who works as an elder cab driver.
She uses her artistic fantasies to draw her objects of desire closer to her. Richard Swersey, a shoe salesman, recently divorced and father of two children, seems to be prepared for things to happen, but when he meets Christine he panics. Life is not too complicated for Richard’s children. Seven- year- old Robby is having a dangerous internet romance and his 14-year-old Peter becomes the guinea pig for neighborhood girls. In this universe, prosaic is transcendent and common people turn in to bright characters who talks about their most intimate thoughts.

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TRANSAMERICA
EE.UU., 2005, 103’, 35 mm

Director: Duncan Tucker
Producer: Linda Moran, Rene Bastian, Sebastian Duncan
Script: Duncan Tucker
Cinematography: Stephan Kazmierski, Tom Camarda
Edition: Pam Wise
Music: David Mansfield, Dolly Parton
Cast: Felicity Huffman,
Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan, Elizabeth Peña, Graham Greene, Burt Young, Carrie Preston, Venita Evans, Jon Budinoff, Raynor Scheine

Bree, a pre-operative, male-to-female transsexual holds two jobs in
order to save enough money to pay for the surgery that will finally
turn her in to a real woman. Although she has a college degree, she lives in a very modest area of Los Angeles. When she receives a phone call from the NYPD asking for Toby’s father -a teenager incarcerated under drug dealing charges- a dismayed Bree discovers that from a clumsy sexual encounter years ago when she was a man, a
baby was born.

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WINDOWS
EE.UU., 2006, 84’, Video

Director: Shoja Azari
Producer: Shoja Azari
Script: Shoja Azari
Cinematography: Ben Wolf
Edition: Shoja Azari
Music: Behrang Azari
Cast: Oz Phillips, Rabeah
Ghaffari, Mary Monahan, Mike Johnson, Martin Bough, Rick Poli, Behrang Azari, Shoja Azari, Regan Southhard, Kathryn Ott, Luke Schiebner, Paul Frolov,
Robert Akeret, Teal Barns, Hank Quinones, Sam Sebastian

“Windows” is an unusual narrative with as series of mine stories, each constructor as an uncut shot, looking thought a Windows.
Every scene is a voyeristic glance into the lives of ordinary people as they struggle whit their inner and external conflicts and circumstances.
We watch then trough the windows of their cars of houses office prisons and apartments sometimes at a distance, sometimes painfully closer. “Windows” stands as a metaphor for physical and psychological boundaries, which separates the inside from the outside, the private from the public, the fiction from the reality.

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MARIO'S STORY
Documental, EE.UU., 2006, 98’, 35 mm

Director: Jeff Werner
Producer: Susan Koch
Edition: Jeff Werner
Music: Joel J. Richard

As a teenager in East Los Angeles, Mario Rocha was sentenced to life
in prison for a murder he did not commit. Undaunted, Mario, his family
and a dedicated team of advocates have spent more than 10 years
navigating the justice system fighting for his freedom even though they have a less than 1% chance of overturning his conviction. Like a procedural crime drama in reverse, in that all the evidence is trying to get someone out of jail, Mario’s Story is a deeply moving film and also a nail-biting thriller

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FUNNY HA HA
EE.UU./ 2002/ 85’

Director: Andrew Bujalski
Producer: Ethan Vogt
Script: Andrew Bujalski
Cinematography: Matthias Grunsky
Edition: Andrew Bujalski
Cast: Kate Dollenmayer,
Mark Herlehy, Christian Rudder, Jennifer L. Schaper, Myles Paige, Marshall Lewy, Danny Miller, Mark Capraro, Sabrina Hawthorne, Lissa Patton Rudder, Andrew
Bujalski, William Westfall,
Jed McCaleb, Sheila ubman,
Justin Rice

After graduating from school; Marnie decides to take some time to
look for a suitable job and a permanent boyfriend. However, things are not easy for her, because she is in love with a boy who doesn’t love her, who likes to drink, and who doesn’t manage to get a real job.

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"K"
EE.UU., 2002, 85’, 35 mm

Director: Shoja Azari
Producer: Shoja Azari
Script: Shoja Azari
Cinematography: Ghasem Ebrahimian, Ben Wolf
Edition: Sam Neave,
Andrew Sterling
Music: David Abir
Cast: Mohammad
Ghaffari, Oz Phillips, Rick Poli, Shahram Karimi, Hamid Fradjad, Mitra Ghamsari, Ann Parker.

“K” a trilogy adapted from three short stories of Franz Kafka is a contemporary journey into the timeless world of Kafka. In the first story
“The married couple”, we are introducer to Robert and through him, to the angst of “modern man” and his bewilderment and fear at facing the world alone. In the second story “In the Penal Colony”, Oz Phillips appears in the role of the “Explorer”, a western modern man visiting the strange and backward land of “In the Penal Colony”.

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