Barbados International Film Festival 2008

The eve of Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Iran, a double agent, hunted by the new revolutionary government, agrees to exchange crucial information with the CIA in return for safe passage out of the country. Inspired by true events.

When 14-year-old Allie discovers that her hard-earned prom dress savings have been spent on the thoroughbred horses her mother raises, a pregnant horse gets caught up in their confrontation.

The Maid, a short narrative film, examines the moments in which we are forced to understand that other people are real in the same way that we are. Rasha is an Egyptian house maid, who is not so skilled at her job. When Rasha's suspicions of her employers are confirmed, she must come to terms with her perceptions of trust, duty, and her place within the family household.

Awards: FIPRESCI Prize Berlin International Film Festival 2008, World Cinema Directing Award - Sundance Film Festival 2008, Best Film - Sofia International Film Festival 2008. Mermaid  is a fanciful tale of an introverted little girl named Alisa who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true. Her life is pretty ordinary. She dreams about dancing in the ballet, singing in a children’s choir, and studying at a school for the mentally challenged. At the age of six she stops speaking. At 17 she moves to Moscow and at 18 years old, she meets Him. He who needed to be saved, and she who was there to save him. Lending a hand, our mermaid’s life begins to change and from this point on she learns about love, life and materialism. There is a unique dream-like visual approach to Anna Melikyan’s modern fairy tale. Mermaid blends age-old myths and youthful imagination into a surreal and beautiful urban romance.

The Maasai tribe of Kenya and Namibia's Himba - two of Earth's oldest cattle cultures - are in the midst of upheaval. Emerging from a century of "white man conservation" that turned their land into game reserves and fueled resentment towards wildlife, they are now vying for a piece of the wildlife-tourism pie. Charting the collision of ancient ways and Western expectations, MILKING THE RHINO tells intimate, hopeful and heartbreaking stories of people facing deep cultural change.

Mothers&Daughtersexplores the hilarious, the ridiculous, and the complicated dynamics ofmother/daughter relationships. Three mother/daughter pairs offer adiverse glimpse into the needs, the denials, and the inescapable lovethat these women feel towards each other. Ultimately, it is acelebration of the inexplicable bond of mothers and daughters. Shotin ten days as if it were a documentary, and set in Vancouver, thestyle of filming is a departure from the usually measured and highlystylized visual approach marking Bessai's previous work - films such aslast year's Normal starring Carrie-Anne Moss. Instead thecamera moves lightly and nimbly through mostly improvised scenescatching the action where it unfolds, and complementing the complicatedand sometimes yin/yang relationships it reveals.

A wild life photographer falls head over heels in love with a young girl. And, she reciprocates his feelings. But there is a hitch. He is 60 and she is 18. This tabooed affair creates havoc in his family's life. Like they say some love stories are never meant to be understood.

Omkara is based on William Shakespeare's 17th century classic, 'Othello' regarded as one of the Bard's finest plays about the human condition, it is being brought to life in an Indian milieu for the first time in a mainstream Hindi film. Set against the milieu of political warfare in the interiors of Uttar Pradesh, Omkara follows one man's descent into sexual jealousy and the final wreckage of his love at the altar of blind obsession. Love is blind but jealousy is even blinder and can tear apart even the strongest and bravest of warriors. The story begins when Omi appoints Kesu and not Langda as his chief lieutenant. Langda's pride is slighted and raging with envy, he hatches a plot to falsely implicate Omi's beautiful fiancee Dolly, in an illicit affair with Omi's‚ a favourite lieutenant, Kesu. Using petty insinuations and lies, Langda keeps poisoning Omi's mind till one day he snaps and goes amok tearing up his secure world, leading up to a horrific tragedy at the end of which Omi realizes the backlash of his actions but is it too late.