Cast: Jalil Lespert, Nathalie Baye, Roschdy Zem, Antoine Chappey, Jacques Perrin, Bruce Myers
Cinematography: Caroline Champetier
Editing: Martine Giordano
Screenplay: Cedric Anger, Xavier Beauvois, Guillaume Breaud, Jean-Eric Troubat
Producers: Martine Cassinelli, Pascal Caucheteux
Directed by: Xavier Beauvois

SYNOPSIS
A gripping police noir, the film tells the story of Antoine, an ambitious young cop from the provinces who joins a plainclothes crime unit in Paris. Antoine spends his days eagerly awaiting his first assignment, drinking with his fellow detectives, and developing an unlikely relationship with his superior, a veteran policewoman with a troubled past. But when the body of a drifter is found murdered along the Seine, a seemingly routine investigation suddenly turns violent and forever changes all their lives. The New York Times called the film “Hyper-realistic and Ultra-cool.”

THE FILMMAKER
Born in 1967 in France, Xavier Beauvois is an actor, writer and director. He has directed four feature films since 1991, written six and acted in over a dozen since 1988. He has been nominated for a number of Cesar awards (the French equivalent of the American Oscars) and at various festivals including Cannes. “Le Petit Lieutenant” also won him the Label Europa Cinema award at the Venice Film Festival in 2005.

Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Sylvia Marriott, Marie Mansart
Cinematography: Nestor Almendros
Editing: Martine Barraqué, Yann Dedet
Music: Georges Delerue
Screenplay: Henri-Pierre Roché, François Truffaut, Jean Gruault
Produced and Directed by: François Truffaut

SYNOPSIS
Based on a 1956 novel by Henri-Pierre Roché, the film follows events that unfold when Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman, meets Englishwoman Ann Brown in Paris. They quickly become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and sister Muriel, for whom she intends Claude. During these holidays, Claude, Ann and Muriel become very close and he gradually falls in love with Muriel. However both families lay down a one-year-long separation condition sans contact before agreeing to the marriage. Claude returns to Paris where he has several love affairs before finally sending Muriel a break-off letter. Part of Truffaut Retrospective.

THE FILMMAKER
François Truffaut was one of the founders of the French “New Wave” and remains an icon of the French film industry. In a film career lasting just over a quarter of a century, he worked as a screenwriter, director, producer and actor in over 25 features. Truffaut came to filmmaking only after an early career as one of the most outspoken film critics in France, writing for Andre Bazin’s Les Cahiers du Cinéma. As a result of the severity of his critiques, Truffaut was refused a press pass to the 1958 Cannes film festival. Along with his Cahiers colleagues, including Jean-Luc Godard and Éric Rohmer, Truffaut was enamoured with Hollywood filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Nicholas Ray and Howard Hawks. In a 1954 article, Truffaut expounded the ‘politique des auteurs’, or ‘auteur theory of cinema’, which championed the idea that movies should reflect the personal vision and preoccupations of the director.

Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble
Cinematography: Henri Decaë
Editing: Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte
Music: Jean Constantin
Screenplay: François Truffaut, Marcel Moussy
Produced and Directed by: François Truffaut

SYNOPSIS
François Truffaut’s first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut’s life-long cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel, the film sensitively recreates the trials of Truffaut’s own difficult childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime. The film marks Truffaut’s passage from leading critic of the French New Wave to his emergence as one of Europe’s most brilliant auteurs. The film was widely acclaimed, winning numerous awards, including the Best Director award at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, the Critics Award of the 1959 New York Film Critics’ Circle and the Best European Film Award at 1960’s Bodil Award. It was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 1959 Academy Awards. Part of Truffaut Retrospective.

THE FILMMAKER
François Truffaut was one of the founders of the French “New Wave” and remains an icon of the French film industry. In a film career lasting just over a quarter of a century, he worked as a screenwriter, director, producer and actor in over 25 features. Truffaut came to filmmaking only after an early career as one of the most outspoken film critics in France, writing for Andre Bazin’s Les Cahiers du Cinéma. As a result of the severity of his critiques, Truffaut was refused a press pass to the 1958 Cannes film festival. Along with his Cahiers colleagues, including Jean-Luc Godard and Éric Rohmer, Truffaut was enamoured with Hollywood filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Nicholas Ray and Howard Hawks. In a 1954 article, Truffaut expounded the ‘politique des auteurs’, or ‘auteur theory of cinema’, which championed the idea that movies should reflect the personal vision and preoccupations of the director.

Cast: Saima, Shaan, Madiha Shah, Saud, Wali, Shabnam Chaudhry, Rashid Mehmood, Shafqat Cheema
Cinematography: Masood Butt
Editing: Z. A. Zulfi
Music: Zulfiqar Ali
Producer: Saima
Written and Directed by: Syed Noor

SYNOPSIS
Zile Shah is the scion of a respected Syed family. Extremely upset at a mismatched arranged marriage to his cousin, he takes refuge in alcohol, much to the consternation of his father, the grand Syed, and his followers. One day, lying drunk in the street, he is carried away by folk singers to their home. Awakening the next morning, he hears a beautiful hymn being sung by Tari, a singer at village fairs, with whom he falls in love. Tari, however, is unwilling to express her love for Zile Shah because she holds the Syeds in too high an esteem. Unable to shake Tari’s beauty and melodious voice from his mind, Zile Shah takes a page out of the book of the sufi Bulleh Shah to demonstrate that ego and social status have no place in front of total love.

THE FILMMAKER
Syed Noor is a foremost filmmaker in Pakistani cinema. He began his journey as a script-writer and assistant director in the 1970s – writing such classics as Sangeeta’s “Society Girl” (1976) and “Bulandi” (Vantage, 1990) – and moved into direction in the 1990s. His super successful films “Jeeva” (1995), “Sargam” (Melody, 1995), “Chooriyan” (Bangles, 1998, 1st KaraFilm Festival), “Deewanay Tere Pyar Ke” (Love Crazy, 1998) and “Mehndi Walay Hath” (The Hennaed Hands, 2000, 1st KaraFilm Festival) remain enduring classics of recent Pakistani cinema. “Majajan” has also been a major box office success.

Cast: Ahmad Razvi, Leticia Dolera, Charles Daniel Sandoval, Ali Reza,
Farooq Muhammad, Panicker Upendran
Cinematography: Michael Simmonds
Editing: Ramin Bahrani
Music: Peyman Yazdanian
Producers: Ramin Bahrani, Bedford T. Bentley, Pradip Ghosh
Written and Directed by: Ramin Bahrani

SYNOPSIS
Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a Pakistani immigrant, struggles to drag his heavy cart along the streets of New York to his corner in midtown Manhattan. And every morning, from inside his cart he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. He is the worker found on every street corner in every city. He is a man who wonders if he will ever escape his fate. He supplements his income by selling bootleg porn DVDs, carefully saving his money to afford a place where he might be able to live with his estranged young son. Then the dull routine of his life is brightened by two developments: the arrival of a young Spanish woman working down the street in a newspaper kiosk, and an offer of assistance from a wealthy fellow Pakistani, who remembers Ahmad’s former life as a rock star. The film features the songs of Atif Aslam.

THE FILMMAKER
Born in 1975 in North Carolina, USA, Ramin Bahrani is a writer, director and actor of Irani descent. His first feature was “Strangers” (2000), in which he acted as well as wrote and directed. “Man Push Cart” has shown at various festivals and, among other awards, won the FIPRESCI prize at the 49th London Film Festival as well as awards for its lead actor, Ahmad Razvi, at Thessaloniki and Seattle. In January 2006, Bahrani was named by Screen International as one of the ‘US Stars of Tomorrow.’

Cast: Mohib Mirza, Adnan Shah, Kanwal, Sumbul, Tanveer Abbas, Khalid Mobin
Cinematography: Majid Mumtaz
Editing: Sarfraz Khan, Jamaluddin
Music: Murtaza Khaliq
Screenplay: Mohsin Ahmed
Producer: Sarfaraz Khan
Directed by: Murtaza Khaliq

SYNOPSIS
A film director, frustrated by the forms and characters of the artificial worlds he creates, sets out in search of reality and accidentally comes across a painter out to decipher the ultimate truth – Death.

THE FILMMAKER
Murtaza Khaliq is a graduate of the Department of Visual Studies, University of Karachi . He is presently working as an Executive Director at the production house, The Carrot Company. He has worked on a variety of ad campaigns, commercials and music videos. "Maut" is his second film at the KaraFilm Festival. His earlier short, "Aas", was screened at the 3rd KaraFilm Festival.

Cast: Catherine Frot, André Dussollier, Geneviève Bujold, Laurent Terzieff, Valérie Kaprisky, Bernard Verley
Cinematography: Renan Pollès
Editing: Catherine Dubeau
Music: Reinhardt Wagner
Screenplay: Agatha Christie (novel), François Caviglioli, Nathalie Lafaurie, Pascal Thomas
Producers: Alain Cadier, Pascal Thomas
Directed by: Pascal Thomas

SYNOPSIS
Prudence and Belisaire are what can be called an eccentric couple. Belisaire is both a colonel in the military secret service and a past master at ... ironing! And Prudence, not very inclined to be the model mother, prefers playing the amateur detective. Unsurprisingly, when several pensioners of an old people's home start dying mysteriously, Prudence is only too happy to leave daughter, son-in-law and grandkids behind in her beautiful home to follow the trail of adventure. Based on Agatha Christie's novel.

THE FILMMAKER
Born in 1945 in Montargis, France, Pascal Thomas has been making films since 1971 when he wrote and directed the short "Le Poème de l'élève Mikovsky." He made his feature directorial debut in 1973 with "Les Zozos" which he also wrote. His subsequent films are noted for their lyrical stories and their naturalism. He is considered by some critics to be the next Jean Renoir. Before becoming a filmmaker, Thomas was a film critic who contributed to some of France 's most popular periodicals.

Cast: Ashwin Bolar, Pavitra Lokesh, Sringeri Ramanna, Ananya Kasaravalli, Rameshwari Verma
Cinematography: S. Ramachandra Aithal
Editing: Manohar
Music: Isaac Thomas Kottukapally
Art Direction: Ramesh Desai
Written and Directed by: Girish Kasarvalli

SYNOPSIS
Achchannaih and his wife live with their widowed daughter-in-law Venkatalaxmi and grand-daughter Rajalaxmi in a traditional society. Achchannaiah sets out to discover the truth when news reaches him that in a distant town, his son, who had died 18 years ago, has been reborn. Achchannaih brings the boy home, setting in motion a chain of events that alter the lives of those around him and pitting three generations of women and their values against each other.”In the Shadow of the Dog” refers to the dog from the Mahabharata, symbolically representing an individual’s good deeds and bad acts.

THE FILMMAKER
Girish Kasaravalli is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. He has made 11 feature films in a career spanning three decades. All his films have won national and interational recognition. He has won the Golden Lotus, highest award given by the President of India to the films made in India, four times, and the Silver Lotus five times. His retrospectives have been held in Rome, Rotterdam, Colombo and Dhaka. “In the Shadow of a Dog” won the jury prize at the Osian Cinefan Asian Film Festival in 2006.

Cast: Trina Neelima Banerjee, Sudeshna Basu, Kaushiki Chakraborty, Raman Chawla, Robishankar Kar
Cinematography: Dilip Verma
Editing: Sameera Jain
Sound: Dominique Vieillard
Producers: Joel Farges, Elise Jalladeau
Written and Directed by: Jahar Kanungo

SYNOPSIS
Unable to tolerate the various noises of Delhi and fearing he will lose his mind, 30-year-old salesman Sarit escapes to a the Bengali village he grew up in for some inner and outer peace. There, amidst sympathetic friends and the rural idyll, he meets the woman of his dreams. His obsession with silence, however, shatters his fragile peace and all he can do is escape, right back to where he began, the noise of Delhi.

THE FILMMAKER
At different times in his life Jahar Kanungo has been involved in theatre, still photography, travel writing and writing short stories and children's plays which have been published in well known Bengali literary journals. He has also made a number of documentaries and conducted some research and photo-documentation of the tiger-cult as it exists in the Sunderbans. His day job is as a senior executive for a corporate house. "Nisshabd" is his first feature film. It has been screened at the Dubai Film Festival and has won two awards at the Vesoul Asian Film Festival in France.

Cast: Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi,  Golnaz Farmani, Mahnaz Zabihi
Cinematography: Rami Agami, Mahmoud Kalari    
Editing: Jafar Panahi
Screenplay: Jafar Panahi, Shadmehr Rastin
Produced and Directed by: Jafar Panahi

SYNOPSIS
A group of Iranian girls, who are forbidden from entering sports stadiums during men’s games, attempts to enter Tehran’s Azadi Stadium during a World Cup qualifier football match dressed as boys. Some get caught and are arrested and are forced to follow the game through the descriptions of a policewoman who knows nothing about the game while sitting in a police van. An ironic tale using non-professional actors, “Offside” won the Silver Bear at Berlin 2006.

THE FILMMAKER
Born in 1960 in Mianeh, Iran, Jafar Panahi is considered to be one of the foremost auteurs of new wave Irani cinema. After studying film direction at the College of Cinema and Television in Tehran, he made several films for Irani television before assisting Abbas Kiarostami on “Through the Olive Trees.” “The White Balloon”, his debut feature, won the Camera d’Or at Cannes. Since then his films have won several prizes at Locarno, Cannes, Berlin and Venice, among other festivals. Two of his films, “The Circle” (2000) and “Crimson Gold” (2003) have been banned in Iran.

Cast: Ajay Devgan, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Dolly Mishra, Vivek Oberoi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Naseeruddin Shah,
Bipasha Basuk, Deepak Dobriyal
Cinematography: Tassaduq Hussain
Editing: Meghana Manchanda
Music: Vishal Bharadwaj
Screenplay: Vishal Bharadwaj, Robin Bhatt, Abhishek Chaubey (based on “Othello” by William Shakespeare)
Producer: Kumar Mangat
Directed by: Vishal Bharadwaj

SYNOPSIS
Based on Shakespeare’s celebrated classic “Othello”, the film is set against the backdrop of political warfare in the interiors of Uttar Pradesh. Omkara or Omi is a gifted chieftain who heads a gang of outlaws, which include the crafty Langda Tyagi and the dynamic Kesu amongst his chief cohorts. The story begins when Omi appoints Kesu and not Langda as his chief lieutenant. Langda’s pride is slighted and raging with envy, he hatches a plot to falsely implicate Omi’s beautiful fiancé Dolly, in an illicit affair with Omi’s ‘favourite lieutenant’, Kesu. Using petty insinuations and lies, Langda keeps poisoning Omi’s mind till one day he snaps and goes amok, tearing up his secure world and leading up to a horrific tragedy at the end of which Omi realizes the consequences of his actions. But is it too late…?

THE FILMMAKER
Vishal Bharadwaj is well known as a film and music composer closely associated with the director and lyricist Gulzar. He shot to prominence as a music composer by scoring the music for such celebrated films as “Maachis”, “Satya” and “Chachi 420.” In 2002, he directed and produced the children’s film “Makdee”, starring Shabana Azmi, which received critical acclaim and became a cult hit. He followed up in 2003 with the brooding and atmospheric “Maqbool” (3rd KaraFilm Festival) based on Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and set in the Bombay underworld. “Maqbool” won the Best Film award at the Bangkok Film Festival and a number of other critics’ awards in India. He is currently in production on “Mr. Mehta and Mrs. Singh.”

Cast: Rifaqat Rasheed, Sara Zaker, Abdul Momen Chowdhury, Raisa Nawar
Cinematography: Gaetane Rousseau, Kamrul Hasan Khasru, Nehal Qureishi
Editing: Catherine Masud
Music: Harold Rasheed, Buno
Producer: Tareque Masud
Written and Directed by: Tareque Masud and Catherine Masud

SYNOPSIS
“Ontorjatra” (literally meaning ‘inner journey’) is an intimate exploration of the complex issues of dislocation and identity in a diasporic world. A divorced mother and her son return to Bangladesh after 15 years abroad, prompted by the boy’s father’s sudden death and funeral. The story follows the transforming experience of mother and son as they, in very different ways, try to come to terms with this loss. For the son, a British-bred teenager with no memory of his father or ‘homeland’, the return to Bangladesh is a journey of self-actualization and rediscovery. For the mother the return journey is a mixture of nostalgia for her youth, and anxiety in anticipation of a difficult reunion.

THE FILMMAKERs
Tareque Masud and Catherine Masud have worked together on a number film projects in various genres including documentary, animation and fiction. Their last feature, “The Clay Bird”, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the international critics’ prize. It also won the Best Feature Film Ciepie at the 3rd KaraFilm Festival.

Voices of: Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, William Shatner, Nick Nolte, Thomas Hayden-Church, Eugene Levy, Avril Lavigne
Music: Rupert Gregson-Williams
Screenplay: Len Blum, Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton, Karey Kirkpatrick
Producer: Bonnie Arnold
Directed by: Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick

SYNOPSIS
Upon waking up after hibernation, a group of forest animals discover that a tall hedge has appeared out of nowhere, half their forest is gone, and they have little to no food left. While Verne, a nervous turtle who acts as the group’s leader, suggests they simply adapt, RJ the raccoon shows up and gives them another option: go over the hedge and get food from the humans! The other forest animals quickly give into RJ, sneaking into the human world to get all the food they can grab. What they don’t know is that RJ is actually using them to pay back a debt to a hungry bear…

THE FILMMAKERs
Tim Johnson made his animated feature debut with the widely acclaimed “Antz” (1998). He has also directed “Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas” (2003).

Karey Kirkpatrick graduated from the School of Cinema and Television at the University of Southern California in 1998. He worked as a writer before making his directorial debut with “Over the Hedge.” Among the films he had written or co-written are “James and the Giant Peach”, “Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves”, “Chicken Run”, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and “Charlotte’s Web.”

Cast: Woolton Harrison, Llewelyn Samuda, Luis Christie, Brenda Finlayson
Cinematography: Sebastian Hiriart
Editing: Eduardo Molo Monllor
Music: Nicolas Sorin
Screenplay: Silvestre Jacobi
Producer: Alejando Jacobi for Mistika Productions
Directed by: Silvestre Jacobi

SYNOPSIS
Jah Bull and Baboo are two Rastafarians that sell LP records in a colourful old car through the countryside towns of Jamaica. By chance their favourite and well known radio broadcaster, Farmer Roots, hitches a ride with them in an emergency while trying to take his sick girlfriend to the hospital. Jah Bull and Baboo don't believe in western medicine because of their Rastafarian beliefs and 'convince' their passengers to seek the help from the bush doctor Bongo-Hu. Getting to the doctor turns out to be much more difficult than they expected and all kinds of adventures happen along the way…

THE FILMMAKER
Born in 1978, Silvestre Jacobi is an Argentinian director with an abiding interest in music who has previously worked in the documentary medium. He graduated as a lawyer in 2002 and then studied cinematography in New York. In 2001 he teamed up with Hassen Balut to make the highly acclaimed "Candombe." "Roots Time" is his first feature and won the Best Film Award at the 2006 Portobello Film Festival.

Cast: Humayoun Saeed, Sania Saeed, Rubina Ashraf, Sunny Tunio, Gulab Chandio, Yar Mohamad Shah
Cinematography: Mohammad Imran
Editing: Faisal Ahmed Shekhani
Art Direction: Asma Akbar
Music: Akhtar Qayyum
Screenplay: Nurul Huda Shah
Producers: Humayoun Saeed, Abdullah Kadwani
Directed by: Owais Khan

SYNOPSIS
This is the story of two individuals from very different backgrounds. One Naseer is the young son of a well-off feudal landlord who believes in revenge and blood feuds and tries to inculcate the same in his son, much to the disapproval of his wife. Another Naseer is an urban, lower-middle class unemployed man in his forties, frustrated at not being able to provide for his family. Both are caught up in circumstances beyond their control, even though they try to set things right. While the younger Naseer repudiates his father's philosophy for his mother's gentler ways, the elder Naseer finds solace from his daily problems in conversations with God. But both are unable to escape the cruelty of fate.

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Owais Khan studied filmmaking at New York University. After returning to Pakistan, he set up his own film production company, Infinity Films. Owais Khan's debut telefilm as director "Farz Karo" was a critical success. Later many of his dramas, serials, series and telefilms over a span of nine years received awards in different categories through various national television channels. His film "Reshman Tau Jhalli Hai" was screened at the 1st KaraFilm Festival and won the legendary Uzma Gilani a Ciepie for the Best Female Actor in a Leading Role.

Cast:  Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Gerald Alexander Held, Johanna Gastdorf
Cinematography: Martin Langer
Editing: Hans Funck
Music: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek
Screenplay: Fred Breinersdorfer
Producers: Fred Breinersdorfer, Sven Burgemeister, Christoph Muller, Marc Rothemund
Directed by: Marc Rothemund

SYNOPSIS
Based on a true story. It is Munich, 1943 and Sophie and Hans Scholl are members of the “Weiße Rose” (White Rose), a resistance group against the Nazi regime. When the siblings lay out fliers at the university, they are caught by the caretaker who calls the Gestapo. After their imprisonment, they are interrogated for four days. In the beginning, Sophie manages to bluff the questioning official Robert Mohr, but Hans finally confesses everything. Now Sophie vindicates her ideals, but also tries to protect the other group members. On February 22nd, the Scholls and their aide Christoph Probst are accused of high treason and sentenced to death, to be executed the same day.

THE FILMMAKER
Marc Rothemund began working as an assistant director in 1990 on commercials and TV productions. In 1995 he served as the German assistant director for Gérard Corbiau’s Oscar-nominated “Farinelli”, and followed that a year later with Dietl’s “Rossini.” He then made his directorial debut with “Wilde Jungs” and two episodes of the “Abel” series. His other films include “Love Scenes from Planet Earth”, “Just The Two Of Us” “Hope Dies Last” ”Das Duo.” “Sophie Scholl - The Final Days” was nominated for an Academy Award in the Foreign Language Film category in 2006.

Voices of: Shahrukh Khan, Aryan Khan, Javed Jaffrey, Rakhshanda Khan, Vindoo Singh
Cinematography: Andrew Jimenez, Patrick Lin, Janet Lucroy
Editing: Stephen Schaffer
Music: Michael Giacchino
Producer: John Walker
Written and Directed by: Brad Bird

SYNOPSIS
It takes a will of steel to hide your superhero talents from a world that still needs you, yet no longer appreciates what you can do. Battling a bulging belly and boring job, Mr. Incredible longs for the glory days of upholding law and order, while his superhuman family tries to fit in and find their place in ‘normal’ life. Relief from quiet suburbia finally comes years later, when the family uncovers a diabolical plan and must bring together their respective strengths to save the day. Winner of the Oscars for Best Animated Feature and Best Sound Editing as well as 38 other awards, the film is being presented in its Hindi-Urdu language version.

THE FILMMAKER
Born in 1957 in Montana, USA, Brad Bird began training as a Disney animator at age 14. He has written and directed episodes of “Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories” and “The Simpsons” and also directed the feature “The Iron Giant” (1999). Working with the animation studio Pixar, he is currently directing the feature “Ratatouille.”

Cast: Riz Ahmed, Farhad Harun, Waqar Siddiqui, Afran Usman, Shahid Iqbal
Cinematography: Marcel Zyskind
Editing: Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom
Music: Harry Escott, Molly Nyman
Producers: Andrew Eaton, Melissa Parmenter, Michael Winterbottom
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross

SYNOPSIS
In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal, Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, traveled to Pakistan for a wedding. In an alleged fit of idealism, they decided to see first-hand the situation in war-torn Afganistan which was being bombed at the time by American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, having lost Monir in the wartime chaos, they were captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They were then handed over to the American forces who transported them to the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay. What followed was three years of relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture to make them submit to false confessions of being terrorists. In the midst of this abuse, the three struggled to keep up their spirits in the face of grave injustice. Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, this film is their story.

THE FILMMAKER
Michael Winterbottom is a prolific British filmmaker, who has directed several critically acclaimed films in the past decade. He attended Oxford University before going on to film school at Bristol University. He began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his movies, “Welcome to Sarajevo”, “Wonderland” and “24 Hour Party People” have been nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. His film “In This World” won three awards (including for direction) at the 3rd KaraFilm Festival as well as a BAFTA award. He is currently directing “A Mighty Heart”, based on the book by slain journalist Daniel Pearl's wife, Marianne, and starring Angelina Jolie.
Mat Whitecross worked as a production assistant on Michael Winterbottom’s “In This World”, and as an additional camera operator and editor on the director’s “9 Songs”. He has also edited “Scott Walker: 30 Century Man” and executive produced “A Ticket Too Far.” “The Road to Guantanamo” is his directorial debut.

Cast: Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Gerard Kearney,
William Ruane
Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd
Editing: Jonathon Morris
Music: George Fenton
Screenplay: Paul Laverty
Producer: Rebecca O’Brien
Directed by: Ken Loach

SYNOPSIS
Ireland, 1920. Damien and Teddy are brothers. But while the latter is already the leader of a guerrilla squad fighting for the independence of his motherland, Damien, a medical student at University College, would rather finish his training at the London hospital where he has found a place. However, shortly before his departure, he happens to witness atrocities committed by the ferocious Black and Tans, and finally decides to join the resistance group led by Teddy. The two brothers fight side by side until a truce is signed. But peace is short-lived and when England imposes a treaty regarded as unfair by a part of the population, war resumes, this time pitting Irishmen against Irishmen, brothers against brothers, Teddy against Damien...

THE FILMMAKER
Ken Loach is one of Britain’s and Europe’s most critically acclaimed filmmakers. Born in 1937, he studied law at Oxford before branching out into theatre and then television. His brand of socialist realism in film has won him numerous coveted prizes – among them for “Riff-Raff” (1990), “Hidden Agenda” (1990), “Raining Stones” (1993), and “Land and Freedom” (1995) – but has also led to difficulties in securing proper distribution and initially also threatened his career. He turned down an O.B.E. for his services to film and has also never succumbed to the call of Hollywood. “The Wind that Shakes the Barley” won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes in 2006.

Cast: Barry Mulligan, Irina Dinescu, Adrian Ciglenean, Emil Hostina
Cinematography: Oleg Mutu
Editing: Catalin Leescu
Music: John Riley, Logan Fisher
Screenplay: John Ketchum, John Riley, Barry Mulligan
Producers: David Duce, John Ketchum, John Riley, Barry Mulligan
Directed by: John Ketchum and John Riley

SYNOPSIS
In 1999, 41 members of a Romanian gypsy choir obtained tourist visas to perform at the Sligo music festival in Dublin. Upon passing customs at Dublin airport, they promptly disappeared. It soon became humiliatingly clear that the 41 were not part of a band, were not even musicians or singers, but stakeholders in a giant immigration scam. This is the hilarious story of that true scam, starring Barry Mulligan who was the Honorary Irish Consul General who stamped the visas of the troupe.

THE FILMMAKERs
Toronto-born John Ketchum has produced various documentaries and TV commercials and made his feature film debut with "What Means Motley?" Ketchum is also involved with a number of international film festivals as a judge and panelist, and is co-founder of Filminute, a global on-line one-minute film festival and competition.
John Riley has directed numerous commercials and short films including several animations. He has been involved with live comedy theatre as a directing producer, and has appeared in stage plays as well as a stand-up comedian. In 2003, he moved from Britain to Romania, where he founded Stray Dog Films. Following the success of "What Means Motley?" he is working on another feature script with John Ketchum.

Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Shiney Ahuja, Shaad Randhawa, Purab Kohli, Masumi Makhija
Cinematography: Bobby Singh
Editing: Akiv Ali
Music: Pritam Chakraborty, Jawad Ahmad, S.B. John
Art Direction: Rajat Poddar
Screenplay: Mahesh Bhatt, Pearl Shahi
Producer: Mukesh Bhatt
Directed by: Mohit Suri

SYNOPSIS
The film begins with a famous film actress slashing her wrists in a hotel room. She is rushed to hospital and word of the incident spreads like wildfire. A famous filmmaker hears the news and is soon waiting outside the ICU at the hospital. He and the actress were very close until three years ago, when she suddenly disappeared. Through flashbacks we find out what happened between the two. Loosely inspired by the life of '70s and '80s movie star Parveen Babi and her relationship with then rising young director Mahesh Bhatt, the film explores a strained, passionate and complex relationship between an egotistical, disturbed actress and a promising film director accused of using her fame to further his career.

THE FILMMAKERs
Mohit Suri has worked as assistant director on "Kasoor" (Fault, 2000), "Awara Pagal Deewana" and "Footpath" (2003). He made his directorial debut with "Zeher" in 2005, produced under the Vishesh Films banner. The film did reasonably well while its music became a massive hit with remixes of Atif Aslam's 'Woh Lamhe' and 'Bheegay Hont Tere' whose music was provided by Najam Shiraz. He followed up with the quirky "Kalyug", also in 2005, which dealt with illegal trafficking in pornography and whose story he himself wrote. "Woh Lamhe" is his third film as director and brings together the lead pair of Kangana Ranaut and Shiney Ahuja who first appeared together in Vishesh Films' sleeper hit "Gangster."