MONACO CHARITY FILM FESTIVAL BROCHURE 2010

Schedule May 5th - 11th 2010

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...introduction May 5th - 11th 2010

CHARITY BENEFICIARY The principal Charity Beneficiary of our Event is the Virlanie Foundation. This charity was started in 1993 by a French man called Dominique Lemay.

Virlanie’s purpose was to help children in the Philipines that were abandoned and left in the streets of Manila. Virlanie gives them housing, food and clothing. In 2008, The Monaco Charity Film Festival bought a house for Vilanie. This house will shelter around 50 children found in the streets of Manila. As we raise more money, we will renovate and expand the Monaco Charity Association House. The famous architect Shigeru Ban is working closely with us to renovate the Monaco Charity House and to build more houses in the disaster stricken areas. Architect Shigeru Ban and the Monaco Charity Association are working closely together to build houses in earthquake disaster areas like Haiti; Chile, Italy, etc. More project will follow soon…

ENTERTAINMENT - «Child Genius» : Dzuba Yuliya is a talented 14 years old pianist. She’s been blind since birth, but her handicap disappears when she is in front of a piano.

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...MOVIES

May 5th - 11th 2010 Please consult website for time and venue or email at info@monacofilmfestival.org DAY 1. Wednesday, May 5th Short ...JUNCTION

Directors: Youmna Aoukar, Alexandre Marchetti & Renee Chao Cast: Colin Faber, Charles Blass, Todd Miller, Onka’a Davis University: Parsons School of Design (New York City) USA 2009 – Social – 12mn

Junction is about people with talent but often not heard.

STUDENT FILM - COMPETITION –WORLD PREMIERE Feature ...MIDNIGHT RECKONING aka The Fall of Night Director/Producer: Derrick Warfel Cast: Bruce Michael Hall, Persia White & Tony Longo USA 2008 – Thriller – 88mn

While trapped in a Twilight Zonish high desert environment, a hunted rock musician is forced to confront his whole past life when an eccentric, prophet tells him his has one night left to live.

COMPETETION – Discovery First Feature

DAY 1/2.

TBA/Short up 35mn Feature ...TAPESTRIES OF HOPE

Director: Michealene Cristini Risley – Screenplay: Susan Black & MCR USA 2009 – Documentary – 77mn

Tapestries of Hope is an astounding story, told through the eyes of filmmaker Michealene *** Cristini Risley. The film shares her sojourn to Africa as she investigates the longstanding myths surrounding the power of virgin blood, including its ability to cure HIV/AIDS. COMPETITION – WORLD PREMIERE

DAY 1/3.

Short ...MY SIMPLE STORY (Hadoutha Sagheeera)

Director/Wrirer: IIzidore Musallam – Producer: Al Jazeera Childeren’s Channel Cast: Lutof Nowaiser, Juliano Mer Khamis, Valentina Abu Osqa & Tami Spivak Qatar 2008 – Comedy – 32mn

A Donkey decides to return from occupied Palestine to his ancestor’s home in Haifa. Sami a nine year old energetic, smart and confident Palestinian Boy, decides to help his friend “the Donkey” in this unusual and exciting journey thru the Occupied West Bank and it’s checkpoints…

COMPETITION Feature ...THE LAND LEFT BEHIND ( La Tierra se Quedo)

Director/Screenplay: Juan Sarmiento G – Producer: Tilman Kolb Colombia 2010 – Documentary – 77mn

Three violently displaced individuals fight against their destinies and attempt to build a new away of life from home.

COMPETITION – EUROPEAN PREMIERE

DAY 1/4.

Feature ...FAWZEYA’S SECRET RECIPE (Khaltet Fawzeya) Director: Magdy Ahmed Aly – Screenplay Hanaa Ateia Cast: Ilham Shaheen, Fathy Abdel Wahab & Nagwa Fouad Egypt 2008 – Comedy – 114mn

The Tale of a much-married woman asserting her sexuality while struggling to overxcome poverty.

COMPETITION – World Cinema Feature ...THE LOSS OF TEARDROP DIAMOND

Director: Jodie Markell – Screenplay: Tennessee Williams Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans, Ann-Margaret & Ellen Burstyn COMPETITION – World Cinema

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DAY 1/5.

OPENING FESTIVAL SCREENING Short ...FORGOTTEN

Director: Reuel Kim – Producer/Screenplay: Sun W. Kim Cast: Jun Kim, Val Lauren, Trip Hope, James Jeffrey, Caldwell Arden, Arden Cho & Marian Michaels USA 2009 – Thriller – 25mn

Forgotten is a film about 2 FBI agents, told against the backdrop of domestic human trafficking.

COMPETITION –European Premiere Feature ...KELIN (The Daughter-in-Law)

Director: Ermek Tursunov – Screenplay: ET & Aktan Arym Kubat - Producer: Gulnara Abikeyeva Cast Gulsharat Zhubyeva, Kuandyk Kystykbaev & Nurzhan Turganbayev Kazakhstan 2009 – Epic Drama – 80mn

A woman is led by her family to her new husband’s home, to live with, presumably, his elderly mother and younger brother. Despite being forced into the marriage, she discovers that he is not such a bad catch after all but domestic bliss does not last long.

COMPETITION – World Cinema - WORLD PREMIERE

DAY 2. Thursday, May 6th Feature ...EL SENOR PRESIDENTE

Director Romulo Guardia-Granier – Screenplay: RG based on Miguel Angel Asturia’s Nobel Laureate masterpiece “El Senor Presidente” – Producer: Jorge Granier Cast: Carlos Mata, Gustavo Rodriguez, Chantal Baudaux & Javier Vidal Venezuela 2008 – Political Drama – 120mn

The twisted story of a fierce Dictator, political corruption and chaos, all opposed to an impossible love story in a fictitious Latin American Country.

COMPETITION – Discovery First Feature TBA/Short up to 15mn Feature ...GOD LIVES IN THE HIMALAYAS

Director: Sanjay Srinivas – Screenplay: SR, Bala Senthil Kumar & Dhaval Shah - Producer: Jyoti Shetty Cast: Bijwol Giri, Sapna KC, Sunil Thapa & Malvika Subba India 2009 – Family Drama – 95mn

A classic story featuring children set amidst the scenic splendor of the mighty Himalayas.

COMPETITION – Discovery First Feature – European Premiere

DAY 2/2.

TBA/ Short up to 20mn Feature ...EVERYTHING WILL HAPPEN BEFORE YOU DIE

Director: Dan Finkel – Screenplay: DF & Brian McGuire - Producers: Michelle Borth & Dean Paraskevopoulos Cast: Brian McGuire, Bret Roberts, Nick Stahl & Anita Briem USA 2010 – Comedy – 82mn

Doran has 8hrs to throw Edgar a bachelor’s party. The two friends embark on a narcotic induced adventure on the streets of Hollywood that unexpectedly raises questions of God, love and marriage.

COMPETITION – Discovery First Feature – WORLD PREMIERE

DAY 2/3.

HEROES OF CONSCIENCE: THE US «NON-VIOLENCE» PEACE MOVEMENT WORLD PREMIERE

3 SHORTS ...DAVID HARRIS, POLITICAL PRISONER Director/Screenplay: Neil Reichline

Neil Reichline’s first Documentary records the logic of political Resistance through interviews with U.S. political activist and former Stanford University student body president, David Harris, and through the final speech David Harris made before he was taken to Federal Prison as a draft resister.

USA 1971 – Documentary – 25mn

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...THE RESISTER

Director/Screenplay: Charles Domokos Narrator: Robert Grant

Bill Garaway, a Los Angeles draft resister, receives a five year prison sentence and is released on bail while he files a court appeal.

Noted Film Critic Kevin Thomas wrote in the “Los Angeles Times” review of the film: “‘The Resister” documents six months in the life of Bill Garaway as he waits out his appeal on a draft evasion conviction. It is not only the story of Garaway, but of an entire generation of young people who began by protesting Vietnam and have ended up creating a counterculture.”

USA 1971 – Documentary – 30mn ...TOGETHER AT THE INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF NON-VIOLENCE Director: Robert Silverthorne & Attila Domokos – Producer/Screenplay: RS

This film documents the early days of political activist Ira Sandperl and folk-singer Joan Baez’ “Institute for the Study of Non-Violence” in Monterey and Palo Alto, California, the groundbreaking American organization that put Gandhi’s non-violent ideas of political action into practice in the U.S. The film also examines the relationship between American Universities such as Stanford University and the U.S. military-industrial complex.

USA 1970 – Documentary – 35mn

DAY 2/4.

Short ...FATOUSH

Director: Hisham Abdel Khalek – Screenplay: HAK & Olivier Delesse – Producer: So Freakantastic Cast: Hiam Abbass, Salim Kechiouche, Elias Abboud & Myriam Guergous France/Germany/Palestine 2009 – 9mn

A dream that may not happen…

COMPETITION – European Premiere

Feature ...THE SHADOWLESS (Golgesizler)

Director/Screenplay: Umit Unal – Producer: Hakan Karahan Cast: Taner Birsel, Arsen Gürzap, Hakan Karahan & Bigkem Karavus Turkey 2009 – Drama – 97mn

A barber working in Istanbul longs to be ‘both here and far, far away’. And one day, without warning, he takes himself off and disappears abruptly into the great far away. The barber settles in a far-flung village, and as chance would have it the one-time local barber, Jingle Nuri, vanished from the place years ago COMPETITION – World Cinema

DAY 2/5.

TBA/Short up to 10mn Feature ...FATHER AND GUNS (De Père en Flic)

Director: Emile Gaudreault – Screenplay: EG & Ian Lauzon - Producers: Denise Robert & Daniel Louis Cast: Michel Côté, Louis-José Houde, Rémy Girard, Caroline Dhavernas & Robin Aubert Canada 2009 – Comedy – 106mn

Father and Guns combines the strengths of a classic comedy pop thriller with a study of a dysfunctional, father-son relationship.

COMPETITION – World Cinema

DAY 3. Friday, May 7th Short ...IN THE COMPANY OF SINNERS

Director/Writer/Producer: Michael J. Cahill Cast: Julian Scott Urena, Leslie Connelly & Michael J. Cahill

One man’s redemption is another man’s hell.

COMPETITION - USA 2010 – Drama – 11mn Feature ...31 NORTH 62 EAST

Director/Producer: Tristan Loraine – Screenwriter: Leofwine Loraine and Tristan Loraine Cast: Heather Peace, Marina Sirtis, John Rhys-Davies, Mimi Ferrer & George Calil UK 2009 – Psychological/Political Thriller – 99mn

A psychological thriller about how an elite SAS unit’s position, is revealed by the British Prime Minister; to ensure an arms deal goes ahead and to secure his re-election.

COMPETITION – Discovery First Feature

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TBA/ Short up to 30mn Feature ...CERTIFIABLY JONATHAN

Director/Story: Jim Pasternak – Producer: Richard Marshall Cast: Jonathan Winters and Robin Williams, Jeffrey Tambor, Ryan Stiles, Sarah Silverman, Rob Reiner, Gary Owens, Howie Mandel, Robert Klein, Jimmy Kimmel, Nora Dunn, Kevin Dunn, Tim Conway, Rosanna Arquette, Patricia Arquette & David Arquette USA 2008 – Documentary/Mockumentary – 79mn

CERTIFIABLY JONATHAN is a comedy/mockumentary that weaves in and out of the bi-polar world of comedy genius, Jonathan Winters, where reality and fantasy collide.

COMPETITION – European Premiere

DAY 3/3.

Double Feature ...A HISTORY LESSON (Darson Fel Tareekh)

Director/Screenplay: Hady Zaccak – Producer: Issam Dakroub (Al Jazeera) Lebanon/Qatar 2009 – Social Documentary – 51mn

This Documentary follows history classes in five different schools located in the Greater Beirut. The History of Lebanon has been in arrested development since the Country’s Independence.

COMPETITION & ...THE WAR OF PEACE (Harb el Salam) Director: Hady Zaccak - Screenplay Diana Moukalled & HZ – Producer: Jerry Mosier Lebanon/UAE 2007 – Social Documentary – 53mn

The agitations in a divided Lebanon after the July 2006 War lived by several young Lebanese adults.

COMPETITION

DAY 3/4.

Short ...PRETTY LITTLE DOGGIE

Director/Writer/Producer: E. Ivan Infante Cast: Sigfrido Echegoyen, Angela Schnaible, John Kelly, Jimmy as Bobo. Animals by Paws for Effect.

Sometimes the best results come from the worst intentions.

COMPETITION – USA 2010 – Comedy – 7mn Feature ...LENINGRAD

Director/Screenplay: Aleksandr Buravsky Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Mira Sorvino, Aleksandr Abdulov Arrmin Mueller-Stahl & Olga Sutulova Russia/UK 2008 – War Drama – 106mn

When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane.

COMPETITION – World Cinema

DAY 3/5. ...TRUST

Director/Screenplay: Zdenka Simandlova – Producers: ZS & Billy Marshall Stoneking Cast: Tom Pelik, Radek Jonak & Lech Mackiewicz Australia 2009 – Drama – 11mn

A prisoner’s confession, gained by the means of psychological pressure, reveals that there’s much more at stake than the game’s purpose of toughening up inmates decided to play – their mutual trust is at stake.

COMPETITION –WORLD PREMIERE Feature RESTORATION

Director/Screenplay: Kim Jong-chul – Producers: Lee Im-ju & Kim Sung-kwun Narration: Park Ji-yoon South Korea 2009 –Documentary – 94mn

A Story of the Messianic Jews in the Holly Land.

COMPETITION – WORLD PREMIERE

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Feature ...BROKEN PROMISE (Nedodrzaný slub)

Director: Jiri Chlumsky - Screenplay: Martin Friedmann-Petrásek (autobiography) & Jan Novák ~ Producer: Iveta Cerna – Ivanova Cast: Samo Spisak, Ondrej Vetchy, Marian Slovak, Ina Gogalova & Eva Kerekesova Slovakia 2009 – Drama – 129mn

A true story of a Jewish boy Martin, talented soccer player, has to make a risky lifetime decisions in order to survive in WWII….

COMPETITION – World Cinema

DAY 4. Saturday, May 8th Short ...MONSTERS

Director:/Screenplay: Thomas Ko – Producer: Sebastian Lee Cast: Joe Seo,Terumi Shimazu & Robin Zamora USA 2008 – Thriller – 27mn

When “he” whispers, murder outbreaks.

COMPETITION – European Premiere Feature ...SWISHBUCKLERS

Director/Screenplay: Yule Caise – Producer: Francois Petit & Wayne Pere Cast: Billy Francesca, Francois Petit, Luke La Fontaine & Maurice Nero USA 2010 – Comedy – 86mn

Three macho Martial Artists join an all gay production of the Three Musketeers in order to save their Dojo.

COMPETITION – Discovery First Feature – WORLD PREMIERE

DAY 4/2.

Short ...THE NORTH ROAD (Tariq ila Shimal)

Director/Screenplay: Carlos Chahine – Producer: Samuel Chauvin & Paul Saadoun Cast: CC, Matthieu Marie, Camille Figuereo & Fadi Abi Samra Lebanon/France 2009 – Drama – 25mn –

Karim, mid 40’s, lives in France since his early teenage years. For the first time in many years he returns to Lebanon to transfer his father’s remains, who died during the war, from Beirut to his home village.

COMPETITION - European Premiere Feature ...PAULISTA (Quanto Duro o Amor?)

Director: Roberto Moreira Screenplay: RM & Anna Muylaert – Producer: Georgia Costa Araujo Cast: Silvia Lourenco, Danni Carlos, Paulo Velhena, Maria Clara Spinelli Brazil 2009 – Drama – 88mn

Three people trying to find love in the big city of Sao Paulo.

COMPETITION – World Cinema

DAY 4/3.

Short ...OUT OF COMPETITION (Hors Competition)

Director: Hugues Philippart – Producers: HP & Sam Saragam Cast: The Monaco Charity Film Festival France 2010 – Humor – 13mn

Armen & Hugues, two independent filmmakers are promoting their own Documentary “Tjukurrpa, the Dream Time” at last year’s MCFF. OUT OF COMPETITION –WORLD PREMIERE Feature ...THE SILENT ARMY (Wit Licht)

Director/Screenplay: Jean Van De Velde Cast: Jacqueline Blom, Marco Borsato & Adrian Galley Netherlands 2008 – Drama – 92mn

Child soldiers in Africa are at the fore in this tale of a white restaurant owner in an African town bordering a conflict zone. When his son’s African friend Abu is abducted, he sets out to find the boy, and walks right into a training camp exploiting children like Abu. COMPETITION – World Cinema

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Feature 31 NORTH 62 EAST

Director/Producer: Tristan Loraine – Screenwriter: Leofwine Loraine and Tristan Loraine Cast: Heather Peace, Marina Sirtis, John Rhys-Davies, Mimi Ferrer & George Calil UK 2009 – Psychological/Political Thriller – 99mn

A psychological thriller about how an elite SAS unit’s position, is revealed by the British Prime Minister; to ensure an arms deal goes ahead and to secure his re-election.

COMPETITION – Discovery First Feature

DAY4/4.

Shorts Showcase from Lebanon Sponsored by NDU (Notre Dame University, Lebanon) ...IN THE WOMB OF MY MIND

Director/Screenplay: Sara Boutine Cast: Mariam El Naser, Elliot terz, Muhannad Harriri & Nour Boutine.

University: LAU (Lebanese American University, Lebanon) Lebanon 2009 – Fiction/Fantasy – 9mn - 4th Prize Winner @ NDUFF -

Triggered by her need to move and feel again. Lara uses her bus to travel back into fading memories. Will fingers play with or against her?

STUDENT FILM - COMPETITION –European Premiere ...LYES (Elias)

Director/Screenplay: Jessica Younes – Producers: Antoine Younes- Anthony Younes & JY Cast: Joseph Azoury & Elham Abi Rached University: NDU Lebanon 2010 – Dark Comedy – 15mn

It is the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

STUDENT FILM - COMPETITION –WORLD PREMIERE ...(LE) PRINTEMPS AILLEURS (Spring Elsewhere)

Director/Screenplay/Producer: Ingrid Bawab Cast: Elie Skaff, Saad Shaar, Dimah Taouk, Joy Bawab, Lise Bawab & Joelle Habib University: NDU (Notre Dame University, Lebanon) Lebanon 2010 – Drama – 11mn

Claude 24 years old guy knows that war is near, but his friends are dreaming of another Lebanon.Le Printemps Ailleurs is a short movie that tries to gain back good memories before the war.

STUDENT FILM - COMPETITION –WORLD PREMIERE

DAY4/5. ...TABEK BELWOUJ

Director/Screenplay: Alain Donio Cast: Mohamed Mokbel, Hani El Khatib & Lara Matar University: ALBA (Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Beirut, Lebanon) Lebanon 2009 – Drama – 27mn – 3rd Prize Winner @ NDUFF -

A love story that unfolds till obsession STUDENT FILM - COMPETITION – European Premiere ...TALK TO THE BRAIN

Director/Screenplay/Producer: Naji Beshara Cast: Dr. Joseph Bechara, Raul Mallat, Fouad Habr, Hala Halaoui &Lynn Dagher University: NDU Lebanon 2010 – Drama/Satire – 15mn

In a typical private Catholic School, a fascist Rector does whatever it takes to raise a worthy generation.

STUDENT FILM - COMPETITION –WORLD PREMIERE ...TO PEEL THE UNKNOWN (A Peler l’Inconu)

Director/Screenplay: Dimah Tawk – Producer: IBS Multimedia Cast: Ingrid Bawab, Fouad Fadel, & Mark Najjar University: NDU Lebanon 2010 – Experimental – 13mn

Ever since the beginning of time, humanity is being haunted by the mystery of death. Ceaselessly we search to solve that enigma, yet to no avail.

To Peel the Unknown is the story of a young girl who experiences an uncertainty about her real existence, the constant fear of death that erodes her thoughts brings her up to a conflict of deicing between giving up her life or facing the logic of her own self existence.

STUDENT FILM - COMPETITION –WORLD PREMIERE ...Q&A with Directors Claude 24 years old guy knows that war is near, but his friends are dreaming of another Lebanon.Le Printemps Ailleurs is a short movie that tries to gain back good memories before the war.

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Feature ...RIWAYAT (Tradition)

Director: Vijay Patkar – Screenplay/Producers: Dr. Sanjay Patole & Dr. Ajay Rane Cast: Samapika , Khalis Siddique, Narendra Jah, Sourabh Dubey & Salil Ankola INDIA 2010 – Musical Drama – 118mn

A Musical Love Story set against the backdrop of serious social issue: the missing 100 million girls….

COMPETITION – Discovery First Feature – WORLD PREMIERE

DAY4/7.

Short ...THE STORYMAKER

Director/Screenplay: Emma Rozanski – Producer: John Ma Cast: Jan Langford-Penny, Donna Brooks, Saban Berryll & Wendy Strehlow Australia 2009 – Drama – 12mn

A dark Tale about a woman who kills herself with her imagination.

COMPETITION Feature ...REGRESA (Love Therapy)

Director/Producer: Alejandro Gonzales-Padilla - Screenplay: Monica Abin & AGP Cast: Jaime Camil, Blanca Soto & Javier Tolosa Mexico/Spain 2010 – Romantic Comedy – 95mn

When her husband Ernesto throws himself into work and refuses to start a family, Maria begins to think he is having an affair and turns to hypnosis to help her understand her relationship. But when the therapist ends the session, she doesn’t come back as herself. Instead, Maria is convinced she is a Basque princess from the 15th century, who is engaged to a prince from that time.

COMPETITION – World Cinema – WORLD PREMIERE Q&A Director Writer Alejandro Gonzales Padilla & Star Jaime Camil

DAY 5. Sunday, May 9th VISION OF TIBET Sunday May 9th – Hotel L’Hermitage 10am Short ...MISS TIBET IN EXILE Directors: Tashi Wangchuk & Tsultrim Dorjee – Producer: Sonam Tsering Bhutia

‘Miss Tibet in Exile’ is a documentary film about the controversial Tibetan beauty pageant in India...

India 2008 – Documentary – 41mn Feature ...FIRE UNDER THE SNOW Director/Producer: Makoto Sasa – Screenplay: MS & Aaron Mendez

The Venerable Palden Gyatso, a Buddhist monk since childhood, was arrested by the Chinese Communist Army in 1959. He spent 33 years in prison for the ‘crime’ of demonstrating peacefully. He was starved and tortured. His nation and culture were destroyed, his teachers, friends and family displaced, jailed or killed under Chinese occupation. Despite this, he remained unbroken, and kept the flame of his spirit ablaze.

Japan/USA 2008 – Documentary – 75mn

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12pm Short ...SHINING SPIRIT: THE MUSICAL JOURNEY OF JAMYANG YESHI Director/Writer: Karen McDiarmid – Producer: The Tara Cafe Project

Shining Spirit, filmed in India, Canada and Tibet, is a testament to the power of music, the resilience of the Tibetan culture, and the enduring bond of a family separated by politics and geography. Canada 2009 – Tibetan Culture – 34mn Feature ...THE SUN BEHIND THE CLOUDS: TIBET’S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM Directors: Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam – Screenplay: Tenzing Sonam – Producer: Ritu Sarin

As Tibet erupts in flames and exile Tibetans march on their homeland, can the Dalai Lama find a peaceful solution to the Tibet issue and silence the growing voices of dissent among his own people?

India/UK 2009 – Documentary – 79mn 2pm Feature 1 ...TIBET’S CRY FOR FREEDOM

Director/Screenplay/Producer: Lara Damiani Cast: His Holiness the Dalai Lama; Professor Samdong Rinpoche; Ama Adhe; Tenzin Tsundue; Lhasang Tsering; Ven. Bagdro; various political prisoners.

Filmed over 12 months from March 2007 to March 2008, first time filmmaker Lara Damiani quit her job, sold her possessions and risked everything to tell the story of Tibet’s long suffering non-violent freedom struggle.

Australia 2008 – Documentary – 52mn

& Feature 2 ...RICHARD GERE IS MY HERO

Director: Tashi Wangchuk & Tsultrin Dorjee – Producer: Dickyi Wangmo Cast: Tenzin Younden, Sonam Tshering, Dechen Youngzon & Tenzin Choedon.

Story of a Tibetan Youth who is a die-hard fan of the Hollywood Actor Richard Gere.

India 2007 – Romantic Comedy – 90mn 4pm Feature ...WHEN THE DRAGON SWALLOWED THE SUN Director: Dirk Simon – Screenplay: DS & Kristen Simon – Producers: Dennis Haysbert, Vanessa Philippe & DS

When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun reveals for the first time the struggle of a young Tibetan King who is expected to continue a 1400 year old lineage while the Tibetan freedom movement is at a critical crossroads.

USA/Germany 2010 – Documentary – 115mn Q&A with Director/Writer Dirk Simon 6:30pm 2 Shorts ...LEAVING FEAR BEHIND (Jigdrel) Director/Writer: Dhondup Wangchen - Producer Gyaljong Tsetrin

Leaving Fear Behind (in Tibetan, Jigdrel) is a heroic film shot by Tibetans from inside Tibet, who longed to bring Tibetan voices to the Beijing Olympic Games.

Tibet 2009 – Documentary – 26mn

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...OPEN ROAD: THE FAILED SECRET MISSION TO TIBET Director: Tenzin Tsetan Choklay – Producers: T TC, Karma Choekyi & Shingza Rinpoche

Story of sixty Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns and other young Tibetans trying to cross into militarized zone of Tibet risking lives and limps; a true test of their faith and believe in Non-violence.

India 2009 - Documentary – 33mn – WORLD PREMIERE 7:30pm – 8:30pm ...PANEL DISCUSSION & FUND RAISING Moderated by Monica Witschi & Judy Lacroix

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May 5th - 11th 2010 DAY 6. Monday, May 10th TBA/Short up to 13mn Feature ...A SINGLE WOMAN

Director/Producer: Kamala Lopez – Screenplay: Jeanmarie Simpson Cast: Jeanmarie Simpson, Patricia Arquette, Peter Coyote, Karen Black, Frances Fisher, Margot Kidder & Elizabeth Pena USA 2008 – Documentary – 92mn

The story of the 1st US Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin, noted pacifist and co-founder of the ACLU. COMPETITION – EUROPEAN PREMIERE

DAY 6/2.

Short ...HUMMINGBIRD Director/Producer: Holly Mosher

Hummingbird, goes onto the streets of Brazil – a world capital for sex tourism – to see the harsh reality kids face and then shows the empowering work of two non-profits who help break the cycle of domestic violence, giving people a second chance.

COMPETITION – USA 2007 – 48mn Feature ...WINTER NIGHTS

Director/Producer/Screenplay: Ari Dasa Cast: Wayne Roberts, Melissa Nearman, Justin Levine, Christina Diaz, Sarah Sido & David Pevsner USA 2010 – Experimental Drama – 53mn

Romantic vignettes of love and loss in Los Angeles.

COMPETITION – Discovery First Feature – WORLD PREMIERE

DAY 6/3.

TBA/Short up to 20mn Feature ...NESHOBA: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM

Directors/Producers: Micki Dickoff & Tony Pagano – Screenplay: MD Cast: Carolyn Goodman, Fannie Lee Chaney, Ben Chaney, Stephen Schwerner, Rita Bender, Jerry Mitchell, Dave Dennis, Hollis Watkins, Florence Mars, Philadelphia Coalition, Preacher Edgar Ray Killen.

USA 2010 – 86mn

40 years after the murders of three civil rights workers, a Mississippi town struggles to face its violent, racist past by finally telling the unvarnished truth.

Documentary – COMPETITION – EUROPEAN PREMIERE

DAY 6/4.

Short ...DEAD CAT BOUNCE

Director: Daric Gates – Screenplay: Joshua J. Durkin – Producers: Matthew J. Ryan & Rachel Stratman Cast: Joshua Durkin, Nathan Marlowe, Greg Osbourne & Christina Iannuzzi USA 2020 – Thriller – 30mn

A wall Street Broker discovers the secret code to the stock market and goes head to head with an underground society that’s been controlling the World Market since the fall of the Roman Empire.

COMPETITION - European premiere Q & A with Director Daric Gates Feature ...KIMJONGILIA

Director/Screenplay: N.C. Heikin USA/France/South Korea 2009 – 75mn

For some, the Korean War was a clear example of American imperialism. For others, it was a valiant effort on the part of the UN and the Koreans to quash the spread of communism. For all Koreans, it was a tragedy. The country was not just divided; it was devastated.

The death toll was astronomical, and the destruction profound. Many engage in assigning blame for the war according to their political beliefs, but this is a useless exercise. The point is that the human rights situation in North Korea today is catastrophic. KIMJONGILIA is the first film to let North Korean refugees tell their stories in their own words.

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Short ...EMPTY TALK

Director/Screenplay: Amanda Abou Abdallah - Produced: Liliane Hanbali Cast: Patricia Khoury, Dzovig Torikian, Sandy Hnoud, Rana Eid & Nathaly Lahoud.

University: USEK (Universite Saint Esprit, Kaslik, Lebanon) Lebanon 2009 – Experimental – 11mn - 2nd Prize Winner @ NDUFF (Notre Dame University Film Festival, Lebanon)

5 different Lebanese women living in Lebanon, talking about their inner struggles, fears, dream and self-image.

STUDENT FILM - COMPETITION – WORLD PREMIERE Feature ...THE SMELL OF SUCCESS aka Manure

Director Michael Polish – Screenplay: MP & Mark Polish – Producers: MP, MP, Ken Johnson & Nick Byassee Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Tea Leoni, Kyle MacLachlan & Ed Helms USA 2009 – Comedy – 93mn

When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose, the genius behind Rose’s Manure Company, the livelihood of its loyal fleet of salesmen threatens to go, as they say, into the toilet. Enter estranged daughter Rosemary, a high-class- cosmetics salesgirl, who steps in to take control…

COMPETITION – World Cinema

DAY 6/6.

Feature ...BATHORY

Director/Screenplay: Juraj Jakubisko - Producer: Deana Jakubiskova Cas:t Anna Friel, Vincent Regan, Karel Rodel, Hans Matheson, Deana Horvatho va & Franco Nero Czech Republic 2008 – History/Drama – 138mn

Bathory is based on the legend surrounding the beautiful Hungarian Countess Erzsebeth Bathory, proclaimed as the most prolific murderess in the history of mankind, who tortured young virgins to bathe in their blood, or could she have been a victim of the political elite in a century heaving with religious wars and witch-hunts?

COMPETITION – World cinema

DAY 7. Tuesday, May11th Short ...WHERE IS SHE? LEBANON! Director/Screenplay: Chris Kriesa USA 2010 – Road Movie – 18mn

3rd part of the Saga WHERE IS SHE? First 2 were screened at MCFF: Where is She? India! and Where is She? Brazil!

COMPETITION –WORLD PREMIERE Q&A with Director Chris Kriesa Feature ...GOD NO SAY SO

Director/Producer/Screenplay: Brigitte Uttar Kornetzky Sierra Leone/Switzerland 2009 – Documentary – 88mn

“The hand you have voted with for the civilian government,” rebels would say, “you will never vote with again.”

God is the backdrop, not the centerpiece, for this film about a flourish of humanity in the wake of evil disaster in West Africa.

COMPETITION

DAY 7/2.

Short ...THE SCENT OF SHADOWS

Director: Hafez Ali Abdulla – Screenplay: Addulrahamm Mohsen – Producer: Hafez Ali & Hamad Ali Qatar 2009 – Documentary – 27mn

The story of Cinema houses in Qatar.

COMPETITION Feature ...MEETING ANDREI TARKOVSKY

Director/Screenplay/ Producer: Dmitry Trakovsky USA 2009 – Documentary – 90mn

A young Filmmaker’s Journey from Los Angeles to Moscowby way of Italy trying to decipher what the late Filmmaker genius Andrei Tarkovsky meant when he mysteriously proclaimed: “Death does not exist!”

COMPETITION Q&A with Director/Writer Dmitry Trakovsky

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DAY 7/3.

Double Feature: ...LEAVING THE FOLD

Director/Screenplay: Eric R. Scott – Producers: Frederic Bohbot & Ivan Beloff Canada 2008 – Social Documentary – 53mn

A Film about young people born and raised within the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world who no longer wish to remain on the inside.

COMPETITION – EUROPEAN PREMIERE & ...KIDS WITH CAMERAS Director/Producer Alex Rotaru Cast: Brad Koepenick

USA 2010 – Social Documentary – 52mn

Autistic Children create Art guided by an exceptional Educator.

COMPETITION – WOLRD PREMIERE Q&A with Director Alex Rotaru

DAY 7/4.

CLOSING GALA SCREENING Feature ...JOHN RABE

Director/Screemplay: Florian Gallenberger – Producer: Hoffman & Vosges EntertainmentGmbH, EOS Entertainment, Majestic Filmproduktion, Pampa Production Cast: Ulrich TUKUR, Daniel BRÜHL, Steve BUSCEMI, Anne CONSIGNY, Dagmar MANZAL, Zhang JINGCHU, Mathias HERRMANN COMPETITION – World Cinema

Revolted by the Japanese’s cruelty during the rape of Nanjing (1937-38), the German director of Siemens (Ulrich TUKUR), who’s registered at the Nazi party, will do everything possible to save the Chinese from this massacre, with helps of an American medical (Steve BUSCEMI) and a French teacher (Anne CONSIGNY).

Germany/China/France 2009 – Biography/Drama – 134mn

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gala dinner May 11th 2010, Salle Belle Epoque, Hotel Hermitage.

ENTErTAINMENT On the final day of the Charity Film Festival, a big Gala Dinner with a spectacular show is organized to entertain guests and to help raise money for our Charitable Beneficiaries.

We invite Famous Actors and Entertainers from all over the world each year to grace our event and to promote our cause. In 2008, the Oscar Award actor Tommy Lee Jones came with his wife to help us raise money for our Charities. In 2007 the famous Lebanese Singer - Haifa Wehbe came to entertain us with her songs. We also invited that year the beautiful Oscar Award winning actress Chalize Thereon and the famous and talented jewelry designer – Giani Bvlgary. We also brought to Monaco in 2007 the Philippine singing group called the Cercado Sisters. These sisters were not famous but they were very special. They were born in poverty in the Steets of Manila. But their singing talent brought them money, fame and happiness.

6:30pm

cocktail

- dzuba yuliya, 14 years old, piano recital

7:30pm

introductory speech

8:00pm dinner 8:30pm video on trafficking of children 9:30pm

Awards Ceremony

10:00pm Gypsy Kings Flamenco Guitar Ticket price: 380 euros Contact: Anna Whitworth:+33 6 07 51 88 88 / info@ monacofilmfestival.org

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ARTISTS Joelle MONTICELLI & Muriel LIOT Anouk and Larissa Ickx Marie- Chantal GIANQUITO karen carty

dream art monaco http://monacodreamart.free.fr

Joelle MONTICELLI

Born in Monaco, from italian origin, she always thought that her genuine taste for art has been passed on by her ancestor, the 19th century great painter : Adolphe Monticelli (1824-1886: Don Quichotte, Women Portraits).

After artistic studies, ten years of dance practice, and her travels will enhance her paintings with the richness of her souvenirs.

Her meeting with Muriel will give birth to a complicity, then a friendship and finally a partnership, fed by their individual experiences expressed by their work of art presented in this website.

Muriel LIOT

Born in the south of France (Menton), she started out her first artistic steps on material modelling by creating pictures and objects in mosaic.

Later, in 1998, she decided to join her longstanding friend, JoĂŤlle, by combining her experience of the material and her own, an association with painting, thence creating relief pictures with the means of their original pooled resourced technique.

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www.artanouk.com

live art

Anouk

was born in the European capital, Brussels, in 1984, she made her art studies in one of the most renouned Belgian art schools, The Institute Saint-Luc. In 2004 she entered in the world of TV when she was recruited for a reality-TV show.

Then her career suddenly took a completely different path that she didn’t expect.

When she finished the reality show it was a huge success and many French TV channels asked her to present different shows with her twin sister but the art still never left her mind.

She continued to paint and draw in small art book that she carried with her all the time in each country she was asked to work eg. (Switzerland, Berlin, Paris, Miami…)

It was in 2005 that she moved for the sun in the South of France where she still lives to this day.

It was under the blue sky, the AzurSea and the sun that she found her inspiration.

There is no preparation in her work she mixes all the media together on a same canvas. For example, acrylic paint with collages using (paper, tissue, posters…) on canvas.

At the beginning she used her small notoriety as TV a presenter to make her contacts in the art world. She could talk about her art on TV shows and popular magazines which helped her find places to expose her work.

Quickly she realised that the world of the show business was not as important as her desire to create and the pleasure that art gave her.

Step by step she put her TV presenting career in the background and now she is beginning to be famous for her talent as an “artist”, her real work, the one that she loves: the ART.»

Larissa Ickx

did several painting training courses in Brussels, Paris and Florence. In her work, she expresses her vision of a feminine world. Life is her inspiration and fashion magazines her artistic support. Collage, acrylic, oil, posca are various techniques that she uses to express the variety of the existence, with often a sense of humour .

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GRAND PASHA Association Monaco

www.grandpasha.asso.mc Marie Chantal GIANQUITO Directrice Art & communication Membre concepteur et fondateur Grand Pasha et Secondes Peaux – Petits Pashas The goal of the association is to give to abused children the chance to become real PETITS PASHAS. The association gathers around its noble cause, artists, sportsmen and personalities recognized for their diverse merits. The concept was created and finalized by MarieChantal.

The SECOND SKINS which Maria-Chantal sculptures are clothes which belong or which belonged to very famous persons. Since these clothes or second skins are sculptured on a painting and fixed in the time «they do not become again dust”.

Contact : Artemisia galery, Avenue Princesse Alice, Monaco.

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karen carty an american beauty that has been practicing interior design and painting for the past 20 years. her art is focused on the science of sacred geometry. each line and curve has religious and mathematical meaning and interipretation as originally concieved by leonardo da vinci.

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show

http://www.sandrinebelotti.book.fr/

BELOTTI COUTURE Sandrine Belotti, the creator of mode Italo-Corse, caused big eddy in the industry of fashion.

Having got her certificate in 2003, Sandine Belotti didn’t cease surprising her customers.

She acquired a big reputation for her original and distinctive style and got national recognition by earning the prestigious “laureate of the creators conquest” un January 2008. Her philosophy of conception in sewing is very clear and simple; she is perfectionist and careful, always attentive to the slightest details. The sewed dresses hand are works of art, the design represents elegance, sensuality and womanhood, by combining conception and creativity, in an exquisite taste for the creation of a particular and elegant look. The collection spring/summer, 2008 reflects the philosophy of decline under all its glory, with of nice and romantic silhouettes were enveloped in the volume and the drapery.

The “Belotti Bridal Couture” was thrown in November 2008; a collection of wedding dresses for the women who want to feel appealing and elegant. The ornament with pearls, embroideries, feathers and the appeal in one of the laces of high quality give in the wedding dresses a perfect sewing, delightful details and an exceptional shape: a romantic and royal frame for an unique wedding. .

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charity beneficiary 2010

VIRLANIE FOUNDATION

GIVING THE SMILE BACK TO STREET CHILDREN vIRLANIE FOUNDATION WAS STARDED IN 1993 BY FRENCH NATIONAL DOMINIQUE LEMAY. IT’S PURPOSE WAS TO HELP CHILDREN IN THE PHILLIPINES THAT WERE ABANDONES IN THE STREETS OF MANILA. VIRLANIE GIVES THEM HOUSING, FOOD AND CLOTHING; PENTIUM FUND FOUNDATION BOUGHT A HOUSE FOR VIRLANIE IN 2008. this house shelters around 50 children found in the streets of manila.

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CHARITY BENEFICIARY The principal Charity Beneficiary of our Event is the Virlanie Foundation.

This charity was started in 1993 by a French man called Dominique Lemay.

Virlanie’s purpose was to help children in the Philipines that were abandoned and left in the streets of Manila. Virlanie gives them housing, food and clothing.

In 2008, The Monaco Charity Film Festival bought a house for Vilanie. This house will shelter around 50 children found in the streets of Manila. As we raise more money, we will renovate and expand the Monaco Charity Association House. The famous architect Shigeru Ban is working closely with us to renovate the Monaco Charity House and to build more houses in the disaster stricken areas. Architect Shigeru Ban and the Monaco Charity Association are working closely together to build houses in earthquake disaster areas like Haiti; Chile, Italy, etc. More project will follow soon‌

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charity acknowledgement 2010

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... thanks

We thank our partners for their support

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Schedule

MONACO OFFICE

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Tel: +33 6 07 51 88 88 EMAIL: vz@pentiumfund.CH www.monacofilmfestival.org

CONTACT

Mme. Anna Whitworth Tel: +33 6 07 51 88 88

GRAPHIQUE DESIGNER: JESSE CHAPMAN / EMAIL: CHAPMAN.JESSE85@GMAIL.COM / TEL: 33 6 62 85 78 88

info@monacofilmfestival.org