The World Cinema Lineup for the 2006 Sundance Film Festival:
'13 Tzameti' directed and written by Gela Babluani (France)
Sebastien has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else. When he reaches his destination, he falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos.
Starring Georges Babluani, Augustin Legrand, and Aurelien Recoing.
'Allegro' directed by Christoffer Boe; written by Christoffer Boe and Mikael Wulff (Denmark)
After a long absence, a famous amnesiac pianist returns to his native Copenhagen where he is contacted by a mysterious messenger who leads him back into his forgotten past.
Starring Ulrich Thomsen, Helena Christensen, and Henning Moritzen.
'The Aura' directed by Fabian Bielinsky (Argentina)
Epinoza is an introverted taxidermist who secretly dreams of executing the perfect robbery. On his first-ever hunting trip, in the calm of the Patagonian forest, his dreams are unexpectedly made reality with one squeeze of the trigger.
Starring Ricardo Darin, Dolores Fonzi, Alejandro Awada, and Pablo Lester.
'The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros' directed by Auraeus Solito, written by Michiko Yamamoto (Philippines)
Young Maxi's unquestioned devotion to his family of small-time criminals in a Manila slum is undermined when he is befriended by a principled young policeman.
'Eve & the Fire Horse' directed and written by Julia Kwan (Canada)
Eve is a precocious nine-year-old growing up in a Vancouver Chinese immigrant family where Confucian doctrines, superstitious obsessions and divine visions abound. When Buddhism and Catholicism are thrown into the mix, life for Eve and prim authoritative sister, Karena, escalates into a fantasia of catastrophe, sainthood and cultural confusion.
Starring Vivian Wu, Phoebe Jojo Kut, Hollie Lo, and Chan Chit Man Lester.
'Grbavica' directed and written by Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
A chilling story of a woman and her daughter as they fight to survive in the painful aftermath of the recent Balkan war.
Starring Mirjana Karanovic, Leon Lucev, Luna Mijovic, Dejan Acimovic, Bogdan Diklic, Semka Sokolovic, and Jasna Zalaica.
'The House of Sand' directed by Andrucha Waddington, written by Elena Soarez (Brazil)
The story of a woman across three generations. In the remote dunes of Brazil, Maria spends her life while an entire century passes by her, her house and sand.
Starring Fernanda Montenegro, and Fernanda Torres.
'Kiss Me Not on the Eyes' directed and written by Jocelyne Saab [Lebanon]
An educated young Egyptian woman defends her artistic integrity as a dancer and her social independence in the midst of modern Cairo's culture wars.
Starring Mohamed Mounir, Hanane Turk, Fathi Abelwahab, Aida Ryad, Sawsan Badr, and Walid Aooni.
'Little Red Flowers' directed by Zhang Yuan, written by Ning Dai and Zhang Yuan (China)
A parable about the nature and complexities of being compelled to "fit in" to a regimented society set in a post-revolutionary Chinese orphanage.
Starring Dong Bowen, Ning Yuanyuan, Chen Manyuan, Zhao Rui, and Li Xiaofeng.
'Madeinusa' directed and written by Claudia Llosa (Peru)
Madeinusa is a sweet girl who lives in an isolated religiously zealous village in mountainous Peru. Everything changes when a geologist from Lima arrives and unknowingly reshapes Madeinusa's destiny.
'No. 2' directed and written by Toa Fraser (New Zealand)
Nanna Maria's family has forgotten how to party. She's going to change all that, make them come alive with the heat and passion of the South Pacific.
Starring Ruby Dee, Tuva Novotny, Mia Blake, and Taungaroa Emile.
'One Last Dance' directed and written by Max Makowski (Singapore)
An assassin is hired to kill the men responsible for kidnapping an important man's son. With every death, the killer gets closer to the last kidnapper's name... his own.
Starring Francis Ng, Vivian Hsu, Ti Lung, Harvey Keitel, and Joseph Quek.
'The Peter Pan Formula' directed and written by Cho Chang-Ho (South Korea)
An adolescent boy confronts premature independence as his mother lies in a coma and he experiences the first tugs of sexual desires with an older woman.
Starring On Ju-Wan, Kim Ho-Jeong, and Ok Ji-Yeong.
'Princesas' directed and written by Fernando Leon de Aranoa (Spain)
The story of two women who form an unbreakable friendship despite their differences as they fight to make ends meet in the big city.
Starring Candela Pena, Michaela Nevarez, Mariana Cordero, Luis Callejo, and Llum Barrera.
'Solo Dios Sabe' directed by Carlos Bolado, written by Carlos Bolado and Diane Weipert (Brazil/Mexico)
On a lark in Tijuana, a young Brazilian art student crosses paths with a roguish Mexican journalist, sparking a cascade of events across both Mexico and Brazil.
Starring Diego Luna, Alice Braga, Cecilia Suarez, Jose Maria Yazpik, Renata Ahaneta, Damian Alcazar, Jesus Ochoa, Maria Dealves, and Dagoberto Gilb.
'Son of Man' directed by Mark Dornford-May, written by Mark Dornford-May, Andiswa Kedama and Pauline Malefane (South Africa)
A gripping journey of love, deception and betrayal, "Son of Man" translates Jesus' life to modern-day South Africa, where a new politics of compassion incites revolution during a military dictatorship. The next collaboration from Dimpho di Kopane, a South African lyric theatre ensemble whose "U-Carmen" garnered last year's Berlin Golden Bear.
