A Trip to Swadades (2008)

Actors: Kenneth McGregor (actor), Daniel Kremer (editor), Daniel Kremer (actor), Daniel Kremer (writer), Daniel Kremer (director), John Gross (miscellaneous crew), William Cully Allen (actor), Michelle Parkerson (miscellaneous crew), Katya Quinn-Judge (actress), Brooke Somers (miscellaneous crew), Eran Preis (miscellaneous crew), Glenn Walsh (actor), Ephraim Asili (producer), Naoko Masuda (actress), Ernst Hohmann (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: This feature length film (shot on black-and-white super-16mm) tells the story of a 74-year-old ex-professor who, after many years of living away from Philadelphia, the city where he came of age, returns to visit his hermit brother who has perfected his freakish steel-trap memory. As a result, however, his apartment has become an unlivable and unsanitary place. He goes out to find some cleaning supplies, only to find himself lost in a city he no longer knows. By shear happenstance, he bumps into an old friend, a world-class cut-up, who takes him to a place of importance to their past. Schweitzer, there, realizes he must reconcile with the brother he has not spoken to and has refused to understand for most of his life.

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Shades of Ray (2008)

Actors: Brian George (actor), Debra McGuire (costume designer), Kathy Baker (actress), Art Evans (actor), Zachary Levi (actor), Philip Rosenthal (actor), Buckley Norris (actor), Fran Kranz (actor), Gerry Bednob (actor), David Doty (actor), Erin Casteel (miscellaneous crew), The Newton Brothers (composer), Rex Lee (actor), Wendy Braun (actress), Jake Kasdan (actor),

Plot: American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. Ray's Caucasian mother threw him out. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his Caucasian girlfriend - who hasn't given him an answer. While trying to get his parents back together, Ray meets a South Asian girl of mixed descent, just like him, and must decide where his identity truly lies.

Uranya (2006)

Actors: Vasilis Tsaglos (actor), Kostas Lambropoulos (producer), Dimitris Piatas (actor), Yorgos Mavropsaridis (editor), Maria Grazia Cucinotta (actress), Tasos Palatzidis (actor), Dionyssis Samiotis (producer), Yorgos Souxes (actor), Panagiotis Kalatzopoulos (composer), Hristos Pilatakis (miscellaneous crew), Victoria Vellopoulou (miscellaneous crew), Hristina Pigaki (miscellaneous crew), Dimitris Mavropoulos (actor), Fotini Baxevani (actress), Manolis Mavromatakis (actor),

Plot: Summer 1969. Dictatorship. In a small country town, young Achileas breaks his leg by falling off the yard wall of the local cinema. He wanted to see Brigit Bardo naked... However, during his visit to the city to treat his broken leg, for the first time in his life he sees a television! The program informs about the launching of Apollo to the moon. The idea of the launching becomes Achileas' obsession and along with his friends they collect money, in order to purchase a TV set. However, soon, the dilemma becomes imperative. Will they buy a television or "visit" all together Uranya in order to be taught the secrets of love? The situation gets even more complicated when the authorities arrest Achileas' father along with the father of a good friend in order to intimidate others: Spiros Agnew, who will visit Greece, intends to visit the small country town as well and so everything must show quiet and "friendly" to the regime... Achileas and his friends will not give up that easy... In order to buy the television of their dreams, they will accept to distribute Greek and American flags to the people of the town. Achileas' disappointment is immense, when he discovers that the money collected was stolen by his friends, for other, more "erotic" destinations. The unexpected arrival of a television Uranya in town by the "town's crazy man" will result in watching Apollo's launch in the café in a rather paradoxical way... whereas the local cinema will stay deserted.

Under the Sun (2005)

Actors: Ali F. Mostafa (producer), Ali F. Mostafa (director), Ali F. Mostafa (writer), Shane Martin (producer), Mohammed Al-Haj (actor), Mohammed Mostafa (actor), Sami Zeidan (actor), Amina Nealon (actress), Khalid Ali Al Awar (producer), Anthony Smythe (producer), Kunal Soonderji (composer), Ahmed Abdulqader (editor), Saif Al-Deen Abbara (actor), Hugo Lang (miscellaneous crew), Muhamed Abdulrahman (actor),

Plot: Shot in Dubai, U.A.E. the film walks beside a young thirteen year old Muslim boy through his first day of fasting in the holy month of Ramadan. We gain an insight into his understandings, misjudgments and difficulties, and take a glance at how he copes with his family upbringing and an Islamic orientated environment in the world today.

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9:30 (2004)

Actors: Sung Kang (actor), Ceiri Torjussen (composer), Rick Ojeda (producer), Norman Lehnert (actor), Mun Chee Yong (director), Mun Chee Yong (writer), Brett Henenberg (producer), Tara Samat (editor), Mike Frenden (producer), Ryan Sturz (producer), Angelica de Jesus (producer), Lissy Sturz (producer), Varuzhan Agadzhanyan (actor),

A Christmas Memory (1997)

Actors: Senia Phillips (miscellaneous crew), Lee Holdridge (composer), Robert Halmi Sr. (producer), Gail Hunter (miscellaneous crew), Glenn Jordan (producer), Duane Poole (producer), Glenn Jordan (director), Duane Poole (writer), David Dwyer (actor), Alex Van (actor), Piper Laurie (actress), Jeffrey DeMunn (actor), Patty Duke (actress), Robert C. Treveiler (actor), David A. Simmons (editor),

Plot: A boy, Buddy, whose parents have split and whose mother is an actress in New York, has been dumped in the south at the small-town home of some older cousins, all of whom are unmarried. Buddy brings life to the house and develops a close friendship with one of the older, simpler ladies, Sook. Buddy and Sook undertake many adventures together, including the baking of 31 fruit-cakes which they give as Christmas presents, even mailing them to President and Mrs. Roosevelt and Jean Harlowe! Just before Christmas, one of the older cousins begins to wonder if it is best for Buddy to be living with them...

Zeyaret el-Sayed el-Rais (1994)

Actors: Ahmed Rateb (actor), Mahmoud Abdel Aziz (actor), Salah Abdallah (actor), Youseff Daoud (actor), Mohamed Henedi (actor), Hajjaj Abdul Azim (actor), Alaa Waley El Din (actor), Ragueh Daoud (composer), Bachir El Dik (writer), Nagah El-Mogui (actor), Amal Ibrahim (actress), Mohamed Abo Dawood (actor), Hayatem (actress), Ahmad Metwalli (editor), Mohammad Fareed (actor),

Folies bourgeoises (1976)

Actors: Tomas Milian (actor), Francis Perrin (actor), Jean Lanier (actor), Henri Attal (actor), Charles Aznavour (actor), Tomas Milian (actor), Henri Attal (actor), Curd Jürgens (actor), Jean-Pierre Cassel (actor), Claude Chabrol (actor), Jean Cherlian (actor), Jean Cherlian (actor), Curd Jürgens (actor), Bruce Dern (actor), Gilbert Servien (actor),

Gas (1975)

Actors: Flemming Quist Møller (actor), Kim Larsen (actor), Kim Larsen (writer), Kim Larsen (composer), Gotha Andersen (actor), Gotha Andersen (actor), Gotha Andersen (actor), Elith Nulle Nykjær (actor), Henrik Wolsgaard-Iversen (writer), Henrik Wolsgaard-Iversen (producer), Franz Beckerlee (composer), Franz Beckerlee (actor), Søren Berlev (actor), Wili Jönsson (composer), Wili Jönsson (actor),

The Lovable Cheat (1949)

Actors: Richard Oswald (producer), Edna Holland (actress), Ludwig Donath (actor), Iris Adrian (actress), Jody Gilbert (actress), John Wengraf (actor), Minerva Urecal (actress), Alan Mowbray (actor), Fritz Feld (actor), Curt Bois (actor), Buster Keaton (actor), Charles Ruggles (actor), Hans Schumm (actor), Otto Waldis (actor), Honoré de Balzac (writer),

Plot: A businessman and his partner are about to go bankrupt when the partner gets an idea to sail away and somehow find the money they need. Meanwhile, the one left behind has to figure out how to put off all the creditors, friends, family, investors, etc., until his partner comes back--IF his partner comes back.