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    Nominees for CWB's Bridging The Borders Award at 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival

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    By Luz Aguado on 01/10/2012 News

    Burbank, CA – January 10, 2012: Today, Cinema Without Borders has announced the five nominees for its Bridging The Borders Award at 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival. The Bridging The Borders Award at the 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival will be given to the most successful film in bringing the people of our world closer together.

    The five nominees for the Cinema Without Borders Bridging The Borders Award are: Almania (Germany), Le Havre (Finland), Monsieur Lazhar (Canada), Morgan (Romania ), and Terraferma (Italy). The Bridging The Borders Award winning film will be announced on Sunday, January 15th, at the Palm Springs International Film Festival award ceremony.

    2012 Cinema Without Borders’ Bridging the Borders Award, Prize provided and Award sponsored by HP Workstations. Director of the winning film will receive an HP 8560w Elitebook Mobile Workstation with a built-in HP DreamColor display, an approximately $4000 value.

     

    Nominees:
    Almanya, Welcome to Germany
    Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland
    Germany, 2011, 97 Minute Running Time
    A charming, colorfully styled comedy, Almanya centers on multiple generations of a German-Turkish clan and derives its touching, laugh-out-loud humor from cultural misunderstandings and the question of what constitutes national identity. Scripted by first-time director Yasemin Samdereli and her sister Nesrin, the narrative is neatly structured into two interwoven time frames. The first, set in the present, introduces the Yilmazes in their German home, as patriarch Huseyin insists that his family accompany him for a holiday in Turkey. The second strand follows the young Huseyin in distant Anatolia, his arrival in 1964 Germany as the 1,000,001st Gastarbeiter and his family’s gradual acclimatization – if not necessarily assimilation. On a more serious note, one of the film’s exceptional aspects is the way it encompasses the history of guest workers in Germany, particularly via the incorporation of well-chosen B&W archive footage under the beginning and end credits. Winner: Audience Award, Chicago Film Festival; Best Film, Best Screenplay, German Film Awards

    Director: Yasemin Samdereli
    Producer: Andreas, Richter, Ursula Woerner, Annie Brunner
    Editor: Andrea Mertens
    Screenwriter: Yasemin Samdereli, Nesrin Samdereli
    Cinematographer: The Chau Ngo
    Music: Gerd Baumann

    Le Havre
    Finland, 2011, 93 Minute Running Time
    The first in a trilogy of stories set in European ports, Aki Kaurismaki’s minimalist gem strikes the perfect balance between deadpan and charm in a political fairytale tale of underdog solidarity. Once a struggling author, Marcel Max has relocated to the coast where he now spends his time shining shoes, dining with his beloved wife Arletty and sharing a drink with pals at his neighborhood bar. The arrival of Idrissa, an African refugee boy, coincides with Arletty suddenly going into hospital, upsetting Marcel’s simple yet content existence. A police dragnet sets out to deport the boy, but they’ve met their match in Marcel, who is emboldened by a quiet but unshakeable sense of humanity and the support of his quartier. With pitch perfect performances, this Cannes FIPRESCI award-winner is a timeless comic masterpiece. “A stylized and sentimental fairy tale about the way the world might be … Aki Kaurismäki has become a major inheritor of the comic-humanist tradition of Charlie Chaplin, Jean Renoir and Jacques Tati.” – AO Scott, The New York Times

    Director: Aki Kaurismäki
    Producer: Aki Kaurismäki
    Editor: Timo Linnasalo
    Screenwriter: Aki Kaurismäki
    Cinematographer: Timo Salminen
    Principal Cast: André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Blondin Miguel, Elina Salo, Jean Piere Leaud

    Monsieur Lazhar
    Canada, 2011, 94 Minute Running Time
    Bachir Lazhar is a middle-aged Algerian immigrant seeking political refuge in Quebec. Bachir jumps at the opportunity to replace a Montreal elementary school teacher who committed suicide one night after class. The school’s overworked principal is initially relieved. The story focuses on Bachir’s relationship with two of his pupils: a ten-year-old boy traumatized by discovering the body of his teacher, and a girl whose interpretation of the event and resentment toward her friend provoke unforeseen revelations. To these children in shock, Bachir’s traditional teaching methods may well provide the structure they need–even if, to Bachir’s dismay, the work of Balzac remains beyond their reach. A luminous and tender tale about the lessons we learn from one another, regardless of age, this complex character study speaks of loss, innocence and imposture in an eloquent yet simple manner. This remarkable picture is carried by the single-named Algerian actor Fellag, who makes this strange man entirely believable but who never overplays the part or turns him into a conventional Hollywood hero. Winner: Audience award, Locarno Film Festival; Best Screenplay, FIPRESCI prize, Valladoid Film Festival

    Director: Philippe Falardeau
    Producer: Luc Dery, Kim McCraw
    Editor: Stéphane Lafleur
    Screenwriter: Philippe Falardeau
    Cinematographer: Ronald Plante
    Music: Martin Leon
    Principal Cast: Fellag, Sophie Nelisse, Émilien Neron, Danielle Proulx, Brigitte Poupart

    Morgen
    Romania, 2010, 100 Minute Running Time
    Mild-mannered Nelu works as a security guard in the local supermarket in Salonta, a small town on the Romanian-Hungarian border. This is a place where many illegal emigrants try to cross, by any means possible, to Hungary and then further into Western Europe. For Nelu, each day is mostly the same. Fishing at dawn, then work, and finally home with his wife, Florica. They live alone at an isolated farmhouse outside town. One morning, Nelu “fishes” something totally different out of the river: a Turkish man trying to cross the border. Not able to communicate verbally, the two men still understand each other to a certain extent. Nelu takes the loquacious stranger to the farmhouse, gives him some dry clothes, food and shelter. “Morgen,” Nelu tells him, tomorrow things will work out. Crisan’s poignant comic drama highlights the wonderful, unexpected kindness of average people and the utter absurdity of borders. Winner: Best Director, Best Actor, FIPRESCI Prize, Thessaloniki Film Festival.

    Director: Marian Crisan
    Producer: Anca Puiu, Marianne Slot, Ivan Angelusz
    Editor: Tudor Pojoni
    Screenwriter: Marian Crisan
    Cinematographer: Tudor Mircea
    Music: Calin Potcoava
    Principal Cast: Andrá Hatházi, Yilmaz Yalcin, Elvira Rimbu, Dorin C. Zachei, Molnar Levente, Razvan Vicoveanu

    Terraferma
    Italy, 2011, 88 Minute Running Time
    A political powder keg sparks intense drama in Emanuele Crialese’s latest tale of working class Sicilians. On this occasion, Crialese’s protagonist is Ernesto (Mimmo Cuticchio), an old-fashioned fisherman on an island that’s quickly turning into a tourist trap. Happening upon an imperiled boatload of African refugees, he selflessly rescues a handful of passengers and hides them from the authorities. Meanwhile, Ernesto’s daughter-in-law (Donatella Finocchiaro) and grandson (Filippo Pucillo) agonize over the potential repercussions of harboring illegal immigrants until one of them is driven to commit a horrendous crime. Well-versed in the customs and concerns of Sicilians, Crialese has helmed a film that’s rich in authenticity and generous with its insights. Furthermore, the writer/director possesses a gift for seamlessly incorporating front-page issues into the fabric of an intimate family drama. In a narrative rife with struggles—whether it’s Ernesto’s efforts to preserve his failing livelihood or the immigrants’ hazardous pursuit of a better life—the most compelling conflict found here is undoubtedly the one between traditional values and an increasingly callous world.

    Director: Emanuele Crialese
    Producer: Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini, Marco Chimenz
    Editor: Simona Paggi
    Screenwriter: Emanuele Crialese, Vittorio Moroni
    Cinematographer: Fabio Cianchetti
    Music: Franco Piersanti
    Principal Cast: Filippo Pucillo, Donatella Finocchiaro, Mimmo Cuticcho, Giuseppe Fiorello, Timnit T.

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    Luz Aguado

    Luz Aguado was born in Guanajuato, Mexico and grew up in East Los Angeles. She is the oldest of four siblings. Prior to attending The Art Institute, Luz was a student at the University of California Riverside where she studied biology and aspired to become a medical doctor. Now she studies Media Arts and Animation at The Art Institute of Los Angeles and hopes of one day having the opportunity to work for Disney Animation Studios. Three dimensional animation and the innovative techniques that have given animation a more realistic appearance is something that she wishes to focus on while at The Art Institute.

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