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100 Bloody Acres

The use of dead car crash victims in the Morgan Brothers' "Blood and Bone" fertilizer company has been a huge boon to business. But it's been months since their last find and an important customer is waiting on a delivery. When Reg Morgan comes across three young people stranded on a remote country road, he sees a radical solution to their supply problems. But things don't quite go to plan when Reg starts forming an attachment to one of their captives.

5 de Mayo: The Battle

An epic and emotional history of the events leading up to the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, when the small, poorly equipped Mexican army stunned its French occupiers with a decisive victory. Immortalized for the past 150 years in Cinco de Mayo celebrations, Rafa Lara’s war film brings to life the dramas of the politicians, the generals, and the soldiers on the ground, as well as their wives waiting back at home. Utilizing hundreds of extras, this is a grand, classical war film rarely seen from Latin America.

7 Boxes

Rivaling the excitement, action and inventiveness of Hollywood thrillers, 7 Boxes follows teenage Victor, who ekes out a living delivering packages in Asunción, Paraguay. On a hot, sticky Friday amid the city’s tangled streets, Victor receives a request to deliver 7 boxes in exchange for $100 -- it is too good an opportunity to pass up. But this seemingly easy job soon gets very complicated. Something in this cargo is highly coveted, and Victor quickly finds himself boxed in.

80 Million

With Ocean’s Eleven style and Argo suspense, 80 Million tells the real life story of activists robbing a bank to steal their own money, hours before a soviet sponsored military crackdown. Tipped off by a possible double agent, a band of revolutionaries choreograph an elaborate bank heist, all under the close watch of government agents. Many historical films tell similar stories of communist Russia’s fading hold over Eastern Europe, but none do it with the thrills and excitement of 80 Million.

A Hijacking

“SUPERB” - Guy Lodge, Variety. Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates. The crew of the ship is taken hostage in a cynical game of life and death. With the demand for a ransom of millions of dollars, a psychological drama unfolds between the CEO of the shipping company and the Somali pirates, while the crew is forced to deal with the ever-mounting possibility of deadly violence.

 

A Passing Place

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Narrative Short. Two strangers meet in a laundromat and play a game of vice and virtue.

About 111 Girls

A government official, carrying a message from Iran’s president, travels across Iranian Kurdistan with his driver and a young guide on a mission to stop 111 young Kurdish women from committing suicide in protest against conditions that have left them spinsters. Against a dramatically colorful physical and human landscape, wistful longing mingles with dreamlike desire and absurdist humor as the three travelers meander helplessly in a land riddled with contradictions.

 

After Lucia

Winning the top prize in the Un Certain Regard competition at Cannes, filmmaker Michael Franco’s emotionally charged drama explores the after effects of extreme loss, and the challenges of huge live changes. When Roberto’s wife dies in a car accident, he moves to a new city with his teenage daughter Alejandra, only to find the new city comes with an entirely new set of problems. Emotionally dethatched, Robert is unable to offer support to Alejandra, who becomes the target of intense bullying at her new school.

After Tiller

Since 2009, when Dr. George Tiller became the eighth abortion clinic worker to be assassinated since Roe v Wade, the only four doctors that perform third trimester abortions in the country have been living in constant fear. After Tiller is a documentary about the lives of these constantly tormented physicians, giving its audience unprecedented access to both their home and work life. For these four doctors, going in to work everyday requires an unwavering commitment to fight for what they feel is a vital procedure.

Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse

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James Chasse was a normal teenage outcast in Portland, Oregon, who, after being brutally beaten by local cops in broad daylight, died in police custody. The police gave conflicting accounts to eyewitnesses as to what Chasse was guilty of, including being “homeless,” but none of them told the real story.

All That Matters Is Past

A happily married businesswoman inexplicably leaves everything behind to join an old lover in the cabin of their youth, but their joyous reunion is interrupted by a visitor from their past. All That Matters Is Past playfully skips back and forth through time, following a love story over several decades, and revealing what went so horribly wrong years earlier. This allegorical tale of innocence lost is breathtaking in its imagery and its plot twists, as the characters straddle a fine line of morality.

 

Allez, Eddy!

A heartwarming, brightly stylized, comic coming-of-age tale about 11-year-old cycling whiz Freddy and the arrival of modernity to an idyllic Belgian village in 1975. The Dutch-speaking son of the local butcher, Freddy has an embarrassing medical condition that makes him the target of much cruel teasing, so his overprotective mother tries to keep him at home, away from other children. When a supermarket opens on the outskirts of the village and the manager organizes a bicycle race, Freddy’s isolated life is turned upside down.

 

Alma

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Narrative Short. Suspecting her husband is trapped in an out-of-body experience, Alma reaches out to her estranged step-son for help.

Almost Man, The

Apatow-style humor and honest acting make this emotional Norwegian narrative a must-see Festival film. In The Almost Man, which won the top prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, follows Henrik and Tone, a happily married couple who are slow to grow up. When Tone becomes pregnant Henrik isn’t quite sure that he can play the role of the ideal husband, and when professional and romantic pressures became harder and harder to bear, Henrik retreats further into a juvenile state.

 

Alois Nebel

A reclusive train dispatcher in a small Czech town mistakes ghost trains for real ones in this darkly imaginative animated feature. While the Berlin Wall comes down, Alois Nebel is committed to an asylum, where his mind only continues to betray him. In this debut feature by Tomáš Luňák, we see a truly impressive mastery of rotoscoping and its powerful ability to convey the eerie inner-workings of Nebel’s troubled world.

American Heart

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Feature Documentary. A primary care clinic in Minnesota becomes a crossroads for embattled refugees and their devoted doctors. We get a glimpse of the failing health and remarkable lives of Lem Thor, a former political prisoner from Cambodia; Patrick Junior, a member of an oppressed ethnic minority in Burma; and Alex Gliptis, an Ethiopian refugee suffering from PTSD, diabetes and HIV.

Amor Crónico


It’s hard to pin down Amor Crónico with any one label; the film is a documentary, comedy, romance, road movie, and musical, all driven by the irresistible personality of Cuban-born, New York-based pop star Cucu Diamantes.

Angelica

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Narrative Short. A haunting love story told in a no-budget, photographic sequential art production that shows a love that never dies.

Angels' Share, The

Opening Night - Thursday, April 11, 7:30pm!

The Angels' Share, the new feature by acclaimed British director Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Looking for Eric), will open the 2013 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival - Thursday, April 11 at 7:30pm.

Antiviral

The chilling debut from Brandon Cronenberg, son of famed filmmaker David Cronenberg, Antiviral premiered at the Un Certain Regard competition at Cannes. This dystopian thriller takes celebrity worship to a new extreme as customers of a specialized cosmetic clinic are injected with diseases extracted from their favorite superstars. One clinician becomes terminally ill when he injects himself with a disease that killed a world-renowned actress, and now the whole world wants a piece of him before he dies.

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