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                                Coachella Valley Premiere - One Time Screening

Not since Paganini had there been such a magician on the violin.  Filmed in St. Petersburg, Russia; Vilnius, Lithuania; and in Heifetz's own rebuilt studio in Los Angeles, GOD’S FIDDLER: JASCHA HEIFETZ, spans a musical history of the 20th century as seen through archival films photographed by Heifetz himself.  The paradox of how a mortal man lives with immortal gifts - gifts he must honor, but which extract a life-long price.

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Muslim teen Ali Messalam and his family move into Berlin’s Kreuzberg area, where he is pressured by his friends to vandalize the apartment of his elderly, feisty Russian neighbor, Alexander Zamskoy.  To avoid being deported, Ali’s parents send him back to Zamskoy’s place to repair the damage.  This warm coming-of-age story, inspired by two real people, is a stirring feature debut by Moscow-born, German filmmaker Leo Khasin.  In Arabic, German & Russian.

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Linda (Rachel Harris), a barren Christian housewife, leads a sheltered existence.  Her world is turned upside-down when she discovers that her dying husband has a 23-year old illegitimate son named Raymond living in Florida.  Somewhere on the edge of guilt and loneliness, Linda grants Abe's final wish and sets off on a quixotic journey to find Raymond and bring him back before her husband passes away.  Along the way, Linda's wonderfully bizarre relationship with Raymond will teach her more about herself than she ever imagined possible & force her to come to terms with her troubled past.  Opens in L.A. May 18, San Diego July 13.

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A true rags-to-riches story!  This fitting tribute to one of the 20th century’s most iconic leading men spans from Curtis’s tough and humble beginnings in the Bronx to his most striking movie roles.  Through intimate interviews with Tony, as well as close friends, family and co-stars, viewers learn more about the star who shaped trends that both James Dean and Elvis imitated.  

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Masterful directorial debut from Austrian actor Karl Markovics is about a young parolee's struggles outside of prison and trying to build a new life while being unable to deal with his guilt. The odds are against him, however: he is an uncommunicative and solitary character without a family and doesn’t seem to be fit for re-socialization. 

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Chef Rosario seems to live his life as a restaurant owner with a new wife and a little son in Germany but is suddenly haunted by his mafia past when his grown up Italian son is looking for shelter after a killing.  In German & Italian.

         
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Dennis, a 38-year-old bodybuilder, would really like to find true love.  He has never had a girlfriend and lives alone with his mother in a suburb of Copenhagen.  When his uncle marries a girl from Thailand, Dennis decides to try his own luck on a trip to Pattaya, as it seems that love is easier to find in Thailand. 

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A father, a son and the great journey of life.  Tiziano Terzani, long-time Spiegel magazine Asia correspondent and renowned author, invites his son Folco to his retreat, a small mountain village northwest of Florence.  Based on the Terzani’s best-selling book, the story is that of celebrated Italian journalist Tiziano Terzani, who by all records, was an exceptional man. 

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This heartfelt drama follows the story of a family drawn into crisis after the parents discover their child is secretly a cross-dresser and kick him out of the house.  Years later, when the father is dying, the mother hires a private detective to track him down.

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In Buenos Aires, 31-year-old Maria runs up against a long-kept family secret whose origins go back to the time of the Argentinean military dictatorship.  In German, English and Spanish

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A true story about divided loyalties and misguided love play out against a backdrop of escalating political unrest in 1967 communist Poland.  Security police colonel Rozek enlists his sexy yet naive girlfriend, Kamila, to spy on the acclaimed writer and suspected Zionist Adam Warczewski.  Eager to please her domineering lover, Kamila accepts the mission, reporting under the code name "Little Rose."  Over time, Kamila grows closer to her quarry, but her loyalties soon become divided in this tale of love, espionage, and politics.

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Suspense, betrayal, romance and reversed identities are the ingredients that make up MY BEST ENEMY.  A handsomely mounted WWII thriller about a missing Michelangelo painting, the ambitions of a housekeeper’s “Arian” son and his wealthy childhood friend who puts on a SS uniform to save his life and family.

               Coachella Valley Premiere - One Time Screening

All of Tehran is preparing to celebrate Chaharshanbe-Soori, or the festival of fire, which falls on the last Tuesday night before the Persian New Year.  On this auspicious evening, Rouhi (Taraneh Alidoosti), a young woman from a poor neighborhood, is hired by a middle class couple to clean their house.  Sweet, naive, and soon to be married, Rouhi's innocence is shattered when she finds herself in the middle of her employers'' domestic dispute over accusations of infidelity. 

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Al, a young man from a modest background, is ten days away from marrying the daughter of his boss, along with succeeding him as the head of the car dealership where Al has been working for most of his life.  Coming back drunk from his bachelor party, he accidentally kills a poor Moldavian worker with his car and then drives off in panic.

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Five aging friends decide to pool their resources for their golden years and move in together in Stéphane Robelin's crowd-pleasing comedy, starring Jane Fonda (in her first French-language film since Godard's 1972 Tout Va Bien).