Cinematic treks around the world

By RAMIN ZAHED

The following dossier includes information on all 46 submissions for foreign-language film:

ALGERIA

Little Senegal

Director: Rachid Bouchareb

Producer: Jean Brehat

Production companies: Tassili Films, Rhein Films, 3B Prods.

Cast: Sotigui, Kouyate, Sharon Hope, Roschdy Zem

A retired Senegalese widower learns about race relations as he searches for his distant relatives in West Harlem.

World sales: TF1 Films Intl., 3-B Prods.

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ARGENTINA

Felicidades

Director: Emilio Bender

Producer: Emilio Bender

Production company: Bendercine

Cast: Gaston Pauls, Pablo Cedron, Silke, Luis Machin

It's Christmas Eve in Buenos Aires and a group of characters end up behaving miserably, despite their good intentions.

Festivals and awards: Montreal; Venice, Settimana della Critica

World sales: Distribution Co.

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AUSTRIA

The Stranger (Die Fremde)

Director: Gitz Spielmann

Producer: Wulf Flemming

Production company: Teamfilm Produktions GmbH &Co KG

Cast: Hary Prinz, Goya Toledo, Nina Proll

A Viennese femme fatale, her drug-dealing boyfriend and a lonely cab driver form the three sides of a deadly noir triangle.

World sales: Wien Film GmbH

Festivals and awards: Toronto

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BELGIUM

Everybody Famous

Director: Dominique Deruddere

Producer: Dominique Deruddere

Production companies: Otomatic, Le Studio Canal Plus, VRT

Cast: Josse de Pauw, Eva van der Gucht, Theka Reuten

An offbeat comedy about a musical father and daughter team that will do almost anything to be famous.

Festivals and awards: Flanders, actor (de Pauw)

World sales: Mercure Distribution

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BRAZIL

Me, You, Them

Director: Andrucha Waddington

Producers: Leonardo M. De Barros, Pedro B. De Hollanda, Flavio R. Tambellini, Andrucha Waddington

Production companies: Conspiracao Filmes/Columbia TriStar Filmes do Brasil

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Cast: Regina Case, Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia

An ordinary woman lives with her three husbands in a poor town in the Brazilian northwest.

Festivals and awards: Cannes, Un Certain Regard; Karlovy Vary, Crystal Globe Grand Prix, actress (Case); Tokyo; Toronto; Pusan; Filmfest Hamburg; Edinburgh; Sundance

World sales: Sony Pictures Classics

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BULGARIA

Letter to America

Director: Iglika Triffonova

Producers: Rossitsa Valkanova, Petra Goedings, Laszlo Kantor

Production companies: Klas Ltd., Ministry for Culture and Arts

Cast: Phillip Avramov, Anatoin Cox, Robert Juhazs

A Bulgarian man tries to communicate with his friend who is hospitalized in America after an accident.

World sales: Celluloid Dreams

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CANADA

Maelstrom

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Producer: Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal

Production company: Max Film Inc.

Distributor: Alliance Atlantis

Cast: Marie-Josee Croze, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Stephanie Morgenstern

A jaded young woman falls in love with the son of the man she has killed in a drunk-driving accident.

Festivals and awards: Toronto, Canadian feature special jury citation; Montreal, artistic contribution for Andre Turpin's cinematography, Canadian film, Grand Prix des Amerique nomination; 10 Genie Award nominations, including Director, film, actress, supporting actor, screenplay

World sales: Alliance Atlantis Pictures Intl.

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CHILE

Coronation

Director: Silvio Caiozzi

Producer: Silvio Caiozzi, Guadalupe Bornard

Production company: Andrea Films S.A.

Cast: Julio Lung, Maria Canepa, Adela Secall

A wealthy patriarch falls for the young girl he hires to take care of his senile grandmother.

Festivals and awards: Montreal, Director; San Sebastian; Fort Lauderdale; Nantes; Vina del Mar, actor, Director, actress; Trieste Latin American, film, actor, screenplay

World sales: Phoenix World Investments (PWI)

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CHINA

Breaking the Silence (Piao liang ma ma)

Director: Sun Zhou

Producers: Sun Zhou, Sun Mian

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Cast: Gong Li, Gao Xin, Shi Jing-Ming, Guan Yue

A single mother in contemporary Beijing struggles to educate and raise her deaf son.

Festivals and awards: Berlin; Hawaii, Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema Award; Montreal, actress

World sales: Entertech Releasing

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CROATIA

Marshall Tito's Spirit (Marsal)

Director: Vinko Bresan

Producer: Ivan Maloca

Production companies: Interfilm; Hrvatska Radiotelevizija (HRT)

Cast: Drzen Kuhn, Linda Begonja, Ivo Gregurevic

The ghost of the former Yugoslav Communist Party leader haunts the residents of a small Adriatic island.

Festivals and awards: Berlin, Wolfgang Staudte Prize; Karlovy Vary, Director; Valencia, Bronze Palm, screenplay; Montpellier; Bratislava

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World sales: Achab Film

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CZECH REPUBLIC

Divided We Fall

Director: Jan Hrebejk

Producers: Ondrej Trojan, Pavel Borovan

Production companies: Total Helpart/Czech Television

Cast: Boleslav Polivka, Anna Siskova, Joroslav Dusek

A married couple shelter their Jewish neighbor in a German-occupied Czech town during the last years of WWII.

Festivals and awards: Vancouver, most popular film; Pilsen, Golden Kingfisher, Don Quixote; Cottbus Festival of Young Eastern European Cinema, Fipreski

World sales: 011-4202-6707-3836

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DENMARK

A Place Nearby

Director: Kaspar Rostrup

Producer: Tina Dalhoff

Production company: Nordisk Film Production

Distributor: Nordisk Film Intl. Sales

Cast: Ghita Norby, Thure Lindhart, Henning Moritzen, Fritz Helmuth

A persistent detective searches for the truth in a case involving an overprotective mother and her autistic son, who is suspected of murdering a local girl.

Festival and awards: Hollywood European Film Award 2000

World sales: Nordisk Film Intl. Sales

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ECUADOR

Dreams From the Middle of the World (Suenos en la Mitad del Mundo)

Director: Carlos Naranjo Estrella

Producer: Alfredo Marcovici

Production companies: Grupo Equinoccio, Grupo Alyaz

Distributor: Alfredo Marcovici

Cast: Hector Alterio, Concha Cueto, Oscar Ladoire, Andrea Guardiola

Three separate tales featuring Ecuadorian myths and ancient magical forces.

Festivals and awards: Bogota

World sales: 011-59-3978-1654

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FINLAND

Seven Songs From the Tundra

Directors: Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio

Producer: Tuula Soderberg

Production company: Jorn Donner Prods. Oy

Cast: Vitalina Hudi, Hatjako Yzangi, Gregory Anaguritsi

A magical invocation of the stories and legends of Nenets in the far north of Russia.

Festivals and awards: Berlin; Creteil's Intl. Women's Festival, best film; Seattle; Monstra; Karlovy Vary; Jerusalem; Melbourne; Sarajevo; Toronto; Flanders

World sales: Jorn Donner Prods.

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FRANCE

Les gout des autres (The Taste of Others)

Director: Agnes Jaoui

Producers: Christian Berard, Charles Gassot

Production companies: France 2 Cinema, Le Studio Canal Plus, Les Film A4

Cast: Anne Alvaro, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Brigitte Catilon, Alain Chabat

A boorish businessman, a refined actress, a barmaid and a bodyguard are four characters whose romantic lives crisscross in this dramedy.

Festivals and awards: Montreal, grand prize; New York; San Sebastian; Hamburg; Vienna; Florence; Warsaw

World sales: Offline Releasing and Artistic License Films

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GEORGIA

27 Missing Kisses

Director: Nana Djordjadze

Producers: Oliver Damian, Jens Meurer

Production companies: Egoli Films GmbH, Le Studio Canal Plus, Moco Films/British Screen, Studio Babelsberg Independents, Wave Pictures

Cast: Nino Kuchianidze, Evgeni Sidichin, Chaco Isahvili, Pierre Richard

A 14-year-old girl stirs longings in the hearts of a widower and his teenage son during a memorable summer holiday.

Festivals and awards: European Film Award nomination for screenplay; Cannes, Directors Fortnight; Avignon, European film, cinematography; Karlovy Vary; Giffoni; Moscow; Montreal; Varna, Golden Aphrodite; San Sebastian; Mill Valley

World sales: Wild Bunch

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GERMANY

No Place to Go

Director: Oscar Roehler

Producers: Kate Ehrmann, Ulrich Caspar

Production company: Distrant Dreams Film Production

Cast: Hannelore Elsner, Vadim Glowna, Jasmin Tabatabai

A portrait of the final years of the life of German novelist Gisela Elsner.

Festivals and awards: Cannes, Directors Fortnight; Kalovy Vary; Moscow; Montreal; Toronto; Chicago, actress; Warsaw; Pusan

World sales: Bavaria Film Intl.

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GREECE

Peppermint

Director: Costas Kapakas

Producer: Costas Lambropoulos

Production companies: Greek Film Center, Cinegram S.A., Kappa Film

Cast: Anna Loulou, Alexandros Mylonas, George Corraface, Markella Pappa

The adventures of a young boy and his eccentric extended family in 1960s-era Greece.

Festivals and awards: Fort Lauderdale, jury award, Director; Thessaloniki Film Festival, Greek Competition, actress, debut, fiction film, screenplay

World sales: 011-01-3634-586

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HONG KONG

In the Mood for Love

Director: Wong Kar-wai

Producers: Wong Kar-wai, Chan Ye-cheng

Production companies: Block 2 Pictures

Distributor: USA Films

Cast: Tony Lleung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk, Rebecca Pan, Lai Chin

In 1962 Hong Kong, a love affair blooms between two married people.

Festivals and awards: Cannes 2000, actor (Leung), Grand Prix du Technique (editing, cinematography and production design); Hamburg Film Festival, Douglas Sirk Award (Kar-wai); European Film Award; Golden Horse Awards, actress (Cheung), cinematography (Chris Doyle, Mark Li), costumes (William Chang)

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HUNGARY

Glamour

Director: Frigyes Godros

Producer: Kornel Sipos

Production companies: Glamour Kft., Focusfilm Kft.

Cast: Karoly Eperjes, Eszter Onodi, Gyorgy Barko

A Hungarian family weathers the tides of 20th-century history.

Festivals and awards: Festroia-Troia, special jury prize; Hungarian Film Week, grand prize

World sales: S-Media 2000

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ICELAND

Angels of the Universe

Director: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Producer: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Production companies: Icelandic Film Corp., Peter Rommel Filmproduktion, Filmhuset, ZDF, ARTE, ORB/SVT/ Zentropa Entertainment

Cast: Ingvar Eggert Sigurosson, Baltasar Kormakur, Bjorn Fridbornsson, Hilmir Snaer Guonason

A sensitive artist's life takes a bad turn after he's rejected by the girl of his dreams.

Distribution: Menemsha Films

Festivals and awards: European Film Award nomination (actor, Sigurosson); Icelandic Film and TV Academy Awards, actor, Director, film, supporting actor, supporting actress; Karlovy Vary, Fipresci, special mention; Toronto

World sales: Trust Film Sales

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International sales: Trust Film Sales

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INDIA

Hey! Ram

Director: Kamal Haasan

Producers: Chandra Hassan, Kamal Haasan

Production company: Raajkamal Films Intl.

Cast: Kamala Haasan, Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Hema Malini, Naseerudin Shah

The Partition era events of India as seen through the eyes of the man who was commissioned to kill Mohatma Gandhi.

Festivals and awards: Toronto

World sales: Raajkamal Films Intl.

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IRAN

A Time for Drunken Horses

Director: Bahman Ghobadi

Producer: Bahman Ghobadi

Production companies: Bahman Ghobadi Films, Farabi Cinema Foundation, MK2

Distributor: Shooting Gallery

Cast: Nezhad Ekhtiar-Dini, Amaneh Ekhtiar-Dini, Ayoub Ahmadi

Impoverished orphan siblings struggle to survive the harsh conditions of Kurdistan.

Festivals and awards: Cannes, co-winner of Camera d'Or; Chicago, special jury prize; Gijon, special jury award (Ghobadi)

World sales: MK2 Diffusion Intl.

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ISRAEL

Time of Favor (Hahesdar)

Director: Joseph Cedar

Producers: David Mandil, Eyal Shiray

Production company: Cinema Factory

Cast: Aki Avni, Edan Alterman, Tinkerbell, Asi Dayan

A religious officer in the Israel army is falsely accused of planning to bomb the mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

World sales: Cinema Factory

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ITALY

The Hundred Steps (I cento passi)

Director: Marco Tullio Giodano

Producer: Fabrizio Mosca

Production companies: Titti Film, RAI

Cast: Luigi Lo Cascio, Luigi Maria Burruano, Lucia Sardo, Paolo Briguglia

A rebellious young man ejects the Mafioso connections of his Sicilian family and embraces communism.

Festivals and awards: Venice, film (CinemAvvenire), screenplay, Pasinette, Golden Lion nominee

World sales: Intra Film Sales

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JAPAN

After the Rain (Ame Agaru)

Director: Takashi Koizumi

Producers: Masato Hara, Hisao Kurosawa

Production companies: Asmik Ace Entertainment, Kurosawa Prods., 7 Films Cinema

Cast: Akira Terao, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Shiro Mifune, Mieko Harada

A poor ronin's life changes when he wagers a bet with a fencing master and is invited by the local lord to be the master fencer in his fiefdom. Based on a script by the late Akira Kurosawa.

Festivals and awards: Sao Paulo, Venice

World sales: IDPL 7

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KOREA

Chunhyang

Director: Im Kwon-taek

Producer: Lee Tae Won

Production companies:

Distributor: Lot 47 Films

Cast: Lee Hyo Jeong, Cho Seung-Woo, Kim Sung-Nyu, Lee Jung-Hun

The privileged son of a provincial governor falls in love with the daughter of a former courtesan in this Korean "Romeo and Juliet" classic.

Festivals and awards: Cannes, nominated for Golden Palm; Telluride; Hawaii, feature

World sales: Wild Bunch

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MEXICO

Love's a Bitch (Amores Perros)

Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Producer: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Production companies: Alta Vista Films, Zeta Films

Distributor: Lions Gate Films

Cast: Emilio Echevarria, Gael Garcia Bernal, Goya Toledo

Three complex storylines about love intersect via a terrible car crash.

Festivals and awards: Bogota, audience award, film, Golden PreColumbian Circle for Director, film; Cannes, CanalPlus Award; Chicago, Gold Hugo, film, Silver Hugo, actor; Edinburgh, new Director's award; Flanders, Golden Spur; Los Angeles, audience award, feature; Tokyo, Director, Tokyo Grand Prix

World sales: Lions Gate Films Intl.

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MOROCCO

Ali Zaoua

Director: Nabyl Ayouch

Producers: Jean Cottin, Etienne Comar, Antoine Voituriez

Production company: Playtime

Distributors: Ocean, Cinelibre, Centrale Africaine Cinematographique

Cast: Said Taghmaoui, Amal Ayouch, street kids of Casablanca

Pic charts the desperate lives of three 12-year-old Casablanca street kids.

Festivals and awards: Berlin; Sundance; Montreal, Intl. Oeucumenical Jury prize; Belgium, Best Actor Golden Bayard; Stockholm, film; Brussels, Prize of the Public

World sales: TF1 Intl.

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NEPAL

Mukundo (Mask of Desire)

Director: Tsering Rhitar Sherpa

Producers: Lobsang Tsultrim, Ang Kusang Sherpa, Sampa Lama

Production companies: Mila Prods., NHK Japan

Cast: Gauri Malla, Mithila Sharma, Ratan Subedi, Nirmal Pyakurel

In Kathmandu, a childless woman asks the riverbank goddess Tripura to bless her with a child, but the spirit world complicates domestic life with her husband.

Festivals and awards: Tokyo Asian, Goteberg, San Francisco, Fukuoka, Vancouver

World sales: Mila Prods.

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THE NETHERLANDS

Little Crumb (Kruimeltje)

Director: Maria Peters

Producers: Dave Schram, Hans Pos

Production company: Shooting Star Film Co.

Cast: Ruud Feltkamp, Rick Engelkes, Thekla Reuten, Hugo Haenen

Film is based on the classic Dutch novel about an orphaned urchin who considers the streets of 1921-era Rotterdam her home.

Festivals and awards: Berlin; Netherlands, nominated for feature, Director, screenplay, Grolsch Film Award; Houston, special jury award

World sales: Buena Vista Intl., Shooting Star Film Co.

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NORWAY

Odd Little Man

Director: Stein Leikanger

Producers: Tomas Backstrom, Petter J. Borgli

Production companies: Nordic Screen Prods., Egmont Entertainment

Cast: Fredrik Stenberg Ditlev-Simonsen, Martin Eidissen, Frederick Paasche, Gjertrud L. Jynge, Card B. Eidsvold

Poignant vignettes chronicle the childhood days of Norwegian jazz poet Odd Borretzen.

Distributor: Columbia TriStar

Festivals and awards: Los Angeles, nominated for grand jury prize

World sales: Egmont Entertainment

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THE PHILIPPINES

Anak

Director: Rory B. Quintos

Producers: Charo Santos-Concio, Malou N. Santos

Production companies: Star Cinema Prods.

Cast: Vilma Santos, Claudine Barretto, Baron Geisler

When an overseas contract worker returns to her hometown, she discovers that her husband has died and that her children resent her.

Festivals and awards: Temecula Valley, Hawaii, Bratislava, Catholic Mass Media Awards, Philippines, best film

World sales: Star Cinema/ABC-CAN Intl.

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POLAND

Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease

Director: Krzysztof Zanussi

Producers: Krzysztof Zanussi, Iwona Zeivekowska

Production company: Tor Film Production

Distributors: Apollo Film, Krakow

Cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Krysyna Janda

During the shooting of a period pic, the set physician struggles with suspicions of his own pending extinction.

Festivals and awards: Moscow, Grand Prix; Chicago

World sales: Mercure Distribution, Paris

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PORTUGAL

Tarde Demais (Too Late)

Director: Jose Nacimiento

Producer: Paolo Branco

Production companies: Madragoa Films, Gemini Films, RTP, Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimedia.

Cast: Rita Blanco, Suzana Borges, Adriano Luz

Drama based on the real-life tragedy surrounding the sinking of a small fishing boat.

Festivals and awards:

World sales: Gemini Films

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RUSSIA

His Wife's Diary

Director: Alexei Uchitel

Producers: Alexei Uchitel, Alexander Golutva

Production company: Rock Film Studio

Cast: Andrei Smirnov, Galina Tyunina, Olga Budina, Yvgeny Mironov

Writer Ivan Bunin leaves Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution and leads an unconventional life at a seaside villa with his wife, his young lover and an inspiring poetess.

Festivals and awards: Karlovy Vary

World sales: 011-7095-433-6778

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SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Landscape (Krajinka)

Director: Martin Sulik

Producer: Rudolf Biermann

Production company: Charlie's Ltd.

Cast: Juraj Paulen, Anton Vaculik, Vilma Cibulkova, Csongor Kassai

The residents of a small Slovak village live through difficult political and social changes, from the late 1920s to the mid-1970s.

World sales: Celluloid Dreams

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SPAIN

You're the One (Una historia de entonces)

Director: Jose Luis Garci

Producer: Jose Luis Garci

Production companies: Nickel Odeon Dos, Enrique Cerezo, PC 29

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Filmes de Espana

Cast: Lydia Bosch, Julia Gutierrez Caba, Juan Diego, Ana Fernandez

Set in the late 1940s, the film centers on an aspiring writer who returns to the village of her youth in the Spanish northwest after her lover dies in jail.

World sales: Columbia TriStar de Espana

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SWEDEN

Songs From the Second Floor

Director: Roy Andersson

Producers: Lisa Alwot, Philippe Bolou

Production companies: Studio 24, Essential Film Production, Berlin

Distributor: Coproduction Office

Cast: Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Torbjorn Fahlstrom

Forty-six discontinuous episodes take place over a period of months in this absurdist journey.

Festivals and awards: Cannes, special jury prize; Toronto

World sales: Coproduction Office

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SWITZERLAND

Gripsholm

Director: Xavier Koller

Producers: Alfi Sinniger, Thomas Wilkening, Danny Krausz

Production companies: Catpics Ltd., Zurich; Thomas Wilkening Film, Berlin; DOR Film, Vienna

Distributors: Columbus Film, Switzerland; Kinowelt, Germany

Cast: Heike Makatsch, Jasmin Tabatabai, Ulrich Noethen, Marcus Thomas

An outspoken author and his adventurous circle of friends spend a sensual vacation in Sweden during the summer of 1932.

Festivals and awards: Pusan, nominated for Swiss Film Awards

World sales: Bavaria Intl., Munich

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TAIWAN

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Director: Ang Lee

Producers: Ang Lee, Hsu Li-Kong, William Kong

Production companies: Asia Union Film and Entertainment, China Film Co-Production, Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Edko Films, Good Machine, Sony Pictures Classics, United China Vision, Zoom Hunt Intl. Prods.

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chang Chen

The disappearance of a highly prized magical sword ignites the action in this visually stunning martial arts drama.

Festivals and awards: European Film Awards, nominated for Five Continents Award; Flanders, Georges Delerue Prize: Tan Dun; Golden Horse; National Board of Review, foreign-language film; New York Film Critics Circle Award, People's Choice Award

World sales: Sony Pictures Classics

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THAILAND

6ixty-Nin9

Director: Pen-ek Ratanaruang

Producer: Pen-ek Ratanaruang

Production companies: Five Star Production/Film Factory

Cast: Lalita Panyopas, Tasanawalai Ongartittichai, Black Phomtong

Festivals and awards: Rotterdam, Singapore, Hong Kong, Karlovy Vary, Jerusalem, Melbourne, Vancouver

When a laid-off secretary accidentally kills a boxing champ, her life begins to spin out of control.

World sales: Fortissimo Film Sales

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TURKEY

Run for Money

Director: Reha Erdem

Producer: Omer Atay

Production companies: Atlantic Film Yapim

Cast: Taner Birsel, Zuhal Gencir, Bennu Yildrimlar

When an Istanbul shopkeeper finds a large bag of American dollars, he can't resist the temptation of spending his newly found riches.

World sales: Warner Bros. (Istanbul)

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VENEZUELA

Devil Gold

Director: Jose Ramon Novoa

Producer: Elia Schneider

Production company: Joel Films

Cast: Rocio Miranda, Laureano Oliverez, Armando Gota

In a small gold-mining village, a young girl is forced into prostitution after her mother is falsely accused of a crime.

World sales: 011-582-793-1267

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VIETNAM

The Vertical Ray of the Sun (A la verticale de l'ete)

Director: Tran Anh Hung

Producer: Christophe Rossignong

Production companies: Lazennec Films, Le Studio Canal Plus, Arte France Cinema

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Cast: Tran Nu Yen-Khen, Nhu Quynh Nguyen, Le Khanh

On the anniversary of their mother's death, three sisters and their brother examine past wrongs left unremedied.

World sales: Studio Canal

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YUGOSLAVIA

Sky Hook

Director: Ljubisa Samardzic

Producer: Ljubisa Samardzic

Production companies: Cine Enterprise, Cinema Design Belgrade, RTS

Cast: Nebojsa Glagovac, Ana Sofrenovic, Ivan Jevtovic

A group of young people in Belgrade rebuild their local basketball court after it's destroyed by NATO bombings.

Festivals and awards: Berlin, Director, Golden Bear nomination

Distributor: Menemsha Films

World sales: Cinema Design

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