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'The Burial Society' is one of the many films premiering at SXSW.
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The Burial Society
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Regional Premiere
Dir: Nicholas Racz
Cast: Rob LaBelle, Jan Rube, Allan Rich, Bill Meilen, David Paymer,
Seymour Cassel.
A gripping, suspenseful thriller about the world's most unlikely criminal, as he infiltrates the mysterious world of the Jewish burial society, in order to execute a most ingenious and unlikely of crimes.
Assassination Tango
US Premiere
Dir: Robert Duvall
Cast: Robert Duvall, Ruben Blades, Kathy Baker, Lucinana Pedraza, James Keane, Frank Gio, Katherine Micheaux Miller, Frank Cassavetes, Michael Corrente, Raul Outeda,Geraldine Rojas, Elvio Nessier.
John J. is a seasoned hit man sent on a job to Argentina. When the General he's sent to kill delays his return to the country, John passes the time with Manuela, a beautiful dancer who becomes his teacher and guide into Argentina's sensual world of the tango. Spellbound by the rich and mysterious world Manuela has shown him, his idyll is shattered when the reality of why he's there comes crashing down around him.
Assisted Living
Regional Premiere
Dir: Elliot Greenebaum
Cast: Michael Bonsignore, Maggie Riley, Nanci Jo Boone, Clint Vaught,
Jose Albovias, Dale Carter Cooper.
The Residents of Masonic Homes of Kentucky. Shot and staged on location in a real nursing home, the film tells the story of Todd, a nursing home janitor who spends his days getting high and enjoying the surrealism of resident life. Todd's detachment from his surroundings is compromised only by his unlikely friendship with a resident who is losing her mind.
Bollywood/Hollywood
Regional Premiere
Dir: Deepa Mehta
Cast: Rahul Khanna, Lisa Ray, Moushumi Chatterjee, Dina Pathak, Kulbushan Kharbanda, Ranjit Chowdhry, Jessica Pare.
Rahul Seth is a dashing young millionaire who believes he is "western" enough to rebel against his mother and grandmother. They are not too keen about his Caucasian girlfriend Kimberly, who, to make matters worse, is a pop star. Before you can say karmic intervention, Kimberly dies in a freak accicent and Rahul is devastated. Instead of allowing him to mourn in peace, Rahul's mother sees the opportunity she's been waiting for.
Bubba Ho-Tep
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... and the 2nd Opinion
Regional Premiere
Dir: Don Coscarelli
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis.
We find Elvis Presley as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, having switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his death, then missing his chance to change back. Elvis teams up with Jack, a fellow rest home resident who thinks he is President John F. Kennedy. The two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds.
Cabin Fever
US Premiere
Dir: Eli Roth
Cast: Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent, Joey Kern.
Six young adults venture into the woods to host a private graduation
party. But soon a diseased vagrant happens upon them and spews up blood,
unleashing a contagious virus that induces instantaneous, accelerated decay in its host and very quickly, moves through the group of campers.
Deprivation
World Premiere
Dir: Jesse Scolaro
Cast: Neil Driscoll, Jr, Jeremy Davidson, Kellee Stewart, Carlos Trevino, Melanie Torres, Mary monohan, Larissa Raphael, Deana Barone.
Using techniques of improvisation, along with scripted material,
Deprivation is a performance-based character piece about two friends who are reunited after years of infrequent communication.
Dirt
World Premiere
Dir: Nancy Savoca
Cast: Julieta Ortiz.
A moving and powerful story of Dolores, a housekeeper in New York who must face the day-to-day drama of supporting her husband and son as they long for their home in El Salvador.
Dummy
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... and the 2nd Opinion
Regional Premiere
Dir: Greg Pritikin
Cast: Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas, Vera Farmiga, Jessica Walter, Ron Leibman, Jared Harris.
A comedy/drama set in the suburbs of New York, a young man struggles to express his feelings as a ventriloquist. through his dummy. With the support of his best friend, an asexual punk-rocker chick, the derision of his sister, a frustrated singer, and the indifference of his parents, he finds true love with his unemployment counselor.
EvenHand
Regional Premiere
Dir: Joseph Pierson
Cast: Bill Sage, Bill Dawes.
The story of two cops, Francis and his volatile partner, Morning,
working in a run-down neighborhood in fictional San Lovisa, Texas. This is a
police story, but it's not about car chases or shoot-outs. It's about two cops struggling to survive in a world that's 90% boredom and 10% primal fear.
The Eye
US Premiere
Dir: The Pang Brothers
Cast: Lee Sin-je, Lawrence Chou, Chutcha Rujinanon, Cndy Lo, Pierre Pang.
After a childhood without sight, Mun undergoes a cornea transplant. The gift of sight is a mixed blessing, as Mun witnesses the pasage of souls that weave lost paths through the fabvric of human life. Mun's sightings of the dead intensify, and to save what remains of her fragile psyche, she travels to a village on northern Thailand to uncover the identity of the donor whose sight she has been cursed with.
Flowers
World Premiere
Dir: Kirven Blount
Cast: Justin Hagan, Ralph McCain, Piper Perabo, Daniel Dresner, Mary Catherine Garrison, Fenton Lawless, Amy Gunther, Chrsitian Maelen, Janet Bushor, Lloyd Porter.
Bill Potter is coasting when he gets a job at Flowers, an illegal after-hours nightclub. The job quickly becomes an attractive way to avoid real life. After Bill disrespects the club, he's sent away to straighten out. Now he must decide which way he wants to go.
Fulltime Killer
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Regional Premiere
Dir: Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai
Cast: Andy lau, Takashi Sorimachi, Simon Yan, Kelly Lin, Cherrie Ying.
An operatic and action-packed saga between two hiten determined to extinguish the other through a tidal wave of bullets and deceit.
Happy Here And Now
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Regional Premiere
Dir: Michael Almereyda
Cast: Ally Sheedy, Clarence Williams III, David Arquette, Gloria Reuben, Shalom Harlow, Liane Balaban, Karl Geary.
A young woman comes to New Orleans in search of her missing sister. Her only
clues to the disappearance are the few fragments that remain on her sister's
wiped-clean computer hard drive of mysterious chat sessions with philosophically-inclined young man calling himself Eddie Mars - a man reachable only in the disembodied realm of Cyberspace.
The Hard Word
US Premiere
Dir: Scott Roberts
Cast: Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Robert Taylor, Joel Edgerton, Damien Richardson.
Three Australian brothers have become the masters of their craft - armed
robbery trade. While in jail a final job is lined up, with the prospect of wealth and freedom to follow. Things begin to look questionable when their lawyer and family end up getting thrown into the mix.
Lilya 4-ever
Regional Premiere
Dir: Lukas Moodysson
Cast: Pksana Akinshina, Artiom Bougucharskij, Elina Benenson, Lilia Sinkarjova, Pavel Ponomarjov.
Set in contemporary Russia, the film recounts the 13-year old Lilya's struggle to survive the grim streets of Moscow.
Melvin Goes To Dinner
Regional Premiere
Dir: Bob Odenkirk
Cast: Michael Blieden, Stephanie Courtney, Matt Price, Annabelle Gurwitch, Maura Tierney.
Melvin Goes to dinner with three almost complete strangers. They discuss marital infidelity, religion, a guy in heaven wearing a Wizard's jersey, anal fetishes, cigarettes and schizophrenia, ghosts, stewardesses, masturbation, and how it's all going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
A Midsummer Nights Rave
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World Premiere
Dir: Gil Cates Jr .
Cast: Andrew Keegan, Lauren German, Corey Pearson, Sunny Mabrey, Chad Lindberg.
A modern adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Midsummer Night's Dream set in a rave two years in the future. A group of friends share an adventure fueled by pounding beats, a magical Puck and his glowing pills, and a hot pursuit of some stolen drug money.
A Mighty Wind
World Premiere
Dir: Christopher Guest
Cast: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer,
Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr., Catherine O'Hara, Fred Willard.
This mockumentary from the creators of "Waiting For Guffman" and "Best In
Show" captures the reunion of 1960s folk trio the Folksmen as they prepare for a show at Carnegie Hall to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter.
The Nature of Nicholas
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US Premiere
Dir: Jeffrey Erbach
Cast: Jeff Sutton, David Turnbull, Ardith Boxall, Tom McCamus, Bob
Hulculak, Katherine Lee Raymond, Samantha Hill.
A surreal fable that follows twelve-year-old Nicholas as he struggles with an intense attraction to his best friend, Bobby.
Nosey Parker
World Premiere
Dir: John O'Brien
Cast: George Lyford,Natalie Picoe, Richard Snee.
Sick of suburbia, Natalie and Richard Newman move to rural Vermont where they expect the unspoiled setting and the indigenous values to rejuvenate their marriage. Over the course of settling in, Natalie finds solace with a
local handyman.
Raising Victor Vargas
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Regional Premiere
Dir: Peter Sollett
Cast: Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte, Melonie Diaz, Altagracia Guzman, Silvesttre Rasuk, Krystal Rodriguez.
Victor lives with grandmother and his younger brother and sister on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and frequents a minuipal swimming pool that is
the summertime hub of local adolescent life. On the cusp of manhood, Victor
is out to prove himself and rescue his reputation by winning the hand of the
hottest girl in the neighborhood.
Robot Stories
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Regional Premiere
Dir: Greg Pak
Cast: Tamlyn Tomita, James Saito, Wai Ching Ho, Cindy Cheung, John
Cariani, Greg Pak, Julienne Hanzekla Kim, Bill Coelius, Sab Shimono, Eisa Davis, Tim Kang, Ron Domingo.
This is four stories about love, death, famly ... and robots. In real life,
mechanical office workers, robot babies, and digital immortality are just a
heartbeat away. Funny, moving, and ultimately heroic, Robot Stories depicts
utterly human characters struggling to connect with each other in the face of these technological changes.
Screen Door Jesus
Dir: Kirk Davis
Based on Christopher cook's short stories, "Screen Door Jesus," explores the racial and religious barriers dividing families and communities of small town East Texas. The main event centers around the image of Christ, whose mysterious appearance on an elderly black woman's screen door stirs up quite a commotion.
Security
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... and the 2nd Opinion
World Premiere
Dir: Brien Burroughs
Cast: Tim Orr, Bill Lillehammer, Stephen Kearin Pat Sullivan.
Two graveyard shift security guards investigate a series of missing candy prototypes and discover a world of corporate espionage, the depth of their friendship, and the meaning of "the code of the badge."
Sexless
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World Premiere
Dir: Alex Holdridge
Cast: Alex Holdridge, Brian McGuire, Kelly Dealyn, Camille Chen, Michelle Fairbanks, Sara Simmonds, Scoot McNairy, Kierstin Cunnington , Babs George,
Kerry Glamsch.
Two twentysomething couples entwine themselves in a gut-wrenching and sex-crazed last month in Austin, Texas. Having made plans to leave town both find themselves seizing fleeting opportunities and reexamining their own relationships.
Spun
Regional Premiere
Dir: Jonas Akerlund
Cast: Jason Schwartzman, John Leguizamo, Mena Survari, Patrick Fugit, Brittany Murphy, Mickey Rourke, Peter Stomare, Alexi Arquette, Debbie Harry,
Eric Roberts, Ron Jeremy.
Ross, an out-of-control speed freak is introduced by his dealer to the creator of his drug of choice. Featuring a score by Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan, the film with revolves around three frantic, sleepless days in Ross' life.
Three and a Half
US Premiere
Dir: Boris Mojsovski
Cast: Kim Huffman, Don Allison, Santino Buda, Valerie Buhagiar, Matthew Ferguson, Dragana Varagic, Walter Alza, Barbara Gordon, Matt Lemche.
Three artists, a director, writer and painter, imagine three seperate stories of yearning and loneliness, that feature and are based on the passengers that surround them while riding on a subway.
Where's The Party Yaar?
Regional Premiere
Dir: Benny Mathews
Cast: Mohan Bakshi, Harishkumar Patel, Ramesh Kumar, Priya Varghese,
Janvi Valia, Shyam Sunder Balabhadrapatramukhi, Poonm Mehta.
A colorful, romantic comedy about a lovable yet naive Indian student who travels to America. There he meets a wildly entertaining group of college kids who engulf him in their world.
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Information & descriptions provided by SXSW. This preliminary list is subject to changes.
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