Ann Arbor Film Festival 2009

The ordinary life of a group of people approaching the last hours of humankind is documented with a futuristic Italian city of Turin on the background. Evident signs of a mysterious happening from the past alter the skyline and urban profile as the countdown goes on.

Character-driven cinema that etches its stories of triumph and tribulation across vast canyons walls. Sponsored by: SEE Eyewear Films in screening order: Pop Art (Amanda Boyle) Excision (Richard Bates) Honor & Justice (Shachar Freddy Kislev) Die Schneider Krankheit (Javier Chillon) found oBjects (David Birnbaum) Glory at Sea (Benh Zeitlin)

Corey and Max compete for the same woman at the grocery store. However, all is not what it seems at the checkout line in this comedy about sexual competition and identity.

A classic coming-of-age story takes a powerful turn when Sean's struggle to understand who he really is explodes the lie that goes to the core of his being, his relationship with his father, and his future as a man.

The Fifties, a Soviet space shuttle crashes in West Germany. The only passenger, a cosmonaut chimpanzee, spreads a deadly virus all over the country...

A neglected teen takes refuge in the dreams that used to haunt her and orchestrates a shocking plan to prove her worth to her disapproving parents.

In a future-past world crumbling and wracked by perpetual war, frantic preparations for a music recital are underway in a disintegrating theatre.

A group of mourners and a man spat from the depths of Hades build a boat from the debris of New Orleans to rescue their lost loved ones trapped beneath the sea.

"Great Man and Cinema" is the title of a propaganda booklet filled with stories of how the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il, has written, edited, produced and given acting advice in films for the last 40 years. An updated propaganda film made in the North Korean social-realist juche cinema succinctly synthesizes the Dear Leader's feeling towards the U.S.