Allegheny International Film Festival
Allegheny International Film Festival
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September 21 This film is in Spanish Spanish director Sebastian, his producer and all his crew are in Bolivia, in the Cochabamba area, to shoot a motion picture about Christopher Columbus, his first explorations and the way the Spaniards treated the Indians at the time. Costa has chosen this place because the budget of the film is tight and here he can hire local actors and extras on the cheap. Things go more or less smoothly until a conflict erupts over the privatization of the water supply. The trouble is that one of the local actors is a leading activist in the protest movement. This Film is Not Rated. |
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September 28 This film is in French When her husband is taken hostage by his striking employees, a trophy wife takes the reins of the family business and proves to be a remarkably effective leader. Business and personal complications arrive in the form of her ex-lover, a former union leader. Rated: R
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October 19 This film is in Mandarin Chinese In Tangshan, truck driver Da Qiang, his wife Yuan Ni and their twins Fang Da and Fang Deng are a happy simple family. On 27 July 1976, a devastating earthquake destroys Tangshan, and Da Qiang dies while trying to rescue his children from their apartment. When a collapsed beam traps Fang Da and Fang Deng, Yuan Ni is forced to decide between saving her son or daughter and she chooses Fang Da. However, her daughter Fang Deng overhears her mother's choice and miraculously survives. She is rescued by a soldier and adopted by Mr. Wang and his wife with the name Wang Deng. Thirty-two years later, after an earthquake in China, Wang Deng travels to China and voluntarily joins the rescue team. She meets by chance Fang Da and she learns the drama of Yuan Ni along all those years. The family is finally reunited at Yuan Ni's home where bitterness is exposed and resolved. Rated: R
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October 26 This film is in German Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosnians. However, her main witness might be lying, so the court sends a team to Bosnia to investigate. Rated: R
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