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 Argentina

Family Law
[FAMIL]
(Argentina, 2006, 102 min) 
The World of Jewish Film
Family Law is a witty and touching portrait of a young man making the passage from delayed adolescence into adulthood. Daniel Hendler plays the neurotic and uptight lawyer Ariel Perelman, who has big shoes to fill as the son of a genial and legendary lawyer. Three generations of Perelmans confound each other with how much they need to learn about being a family.  More...
 Australia
Insect
[SH10T]
(Australia, 2006, 4 min) 
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Winged creatures transform a woman into one of their own, and she takes flight away from her gilded mansion into the wild. Insect is a fascinating blend of still photography and animation.  More...

Lloyd Ormerod Wants His Face Back
[SH10T]
(Australia, 2006, 14 min) 
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In a lyrical and lonely film from Australia, Lloyd wastes away his days sniffing glue, both avoiding and obsessing over the past wrongs that have hurt him.  More...
Ten Canoes
[TENCA]
(Australia, 2006, 92 min) 
Other
The oral traditions of Aboriginal Australia are reflected here through a gently teasing narrator guiding us into two interwoven stories, one set a thousand years ago, and the other way before that, spiked with lowbrow humor (all the good bits: sex, gluttony, kidnapping, sorcery).  More...
 Austria

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
[GRBAV]
(Austria , Bosnia-Herzegovina , Germany , Croatia, 2006, 90 min) 
Contemporary European Cinema
The story, written by Žbaniç, a survivor herself, explores both the overwhelming personal sacrifice of living through a war in your own city (how is war possible in a city that hosted an Olympics a decade before?) and the relationship between a single mother and her coming-of-age daughter which is, quite possibly, even harder.  More...
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the ninth annual wisconsin film festival
a four-day exploration of new American independent dramatic and documentary films; world cinema;
experimental, avant-garde, and short films; restorations and revivals; and new media, in theaters in downtown Madison and on the UW–Madison campus

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