Jackson Hole Film Festival 2008

The filmmaker will be in attendance for a Q&A THE CAKE EATERS is a quirky, small town, ensemble drama that explores the lives of two interconnected families coming to terms with love in the face of loss.

US Marine Cpt Jones is assigned to escort a train carrying NATO equipment headed for Yugoslavia during the war in Kosovo. His mission is held back by Doiaru, apparently a very thorough station master in a godforsaken village, who halts the train over a paperwork technicality. The community makes ridiculous efforts to welcome the Americans, intending to profit from their unexpected presence. At the end of five intense days, the train resumes its journey leaving behind broken hearts, broken dreams and a civil war.

Piero, an intrusive old man, knocks on his young neighbour's door: he needs to go to a police station, by a river. Reluctantly, Elio agrees but takes someone else with him on the trip: Layla, his ex-girlfriend's ferret. During the trip, these two men will help each other to accept the loss of their women, not without misunderstandings and funny moments.

The filmmaker will be in attendance for a Q&A When an old flame reappears, Alice, a middle-aged manicurist living in Sao Paulo, has to reevaluate her life and come to a decision whether to stay or leave her mundane existence. tm

The filmmaker will be in attendance for a Q&A CENTIGRADE is a contemporary thriller about a Man (Colin Cunningham - Da VINCI'S INQUEST, ELEKTRA) who lives in an old, busted up camper trailer, but wakes up one morning to find himself (and it) rolling down a desert highway. Taken hostage aboard this rolling nightmare, he will have to use his wits in order to survive. CENTIGRADE reminds us of our own mortality and perhaps even the possibility of Judgment Day.

Cole "China" Johnston is a hard-worn anachronism of a man. It is present day and he's still roping runaway steers for the local cattle baron to keep beer money in his pocket. When China fails to track down an aging prize bull that has escaped, his boss fires him and puts a bounty on the animal's head, dead or alive. With nothing left, China sets out on his own reckless mission to prove there is something left in the old cowboy yet

The filmmaker will be in attendance for a Q&A Meet the choir - not your average church variety. It’s a choir of inmates in the most dangerous prison in South Africa. Coleman is the choir director. Cunning, yet friendly. A career robber guiding a gang of young punks in song. Jabulani is a singer. Rebellious, yet naïve. A defiant teenager about to find his voice. Their choir offers the chance to build a makeshift family, train for a national competition and grow beyond their circumstances. THE CHOIR is a true story of discovering harmony in the toughest place on earth.

The filmmaker will be in attendance for a Q&A The mall is 234 miles away. You have thrown 10,000 three-point shots on the dirt court behind the barn. You drive a backhoe after practice to support the family business. And you are sixteen-year-old girl. Welcome to Class C. As their tiny hometowns fight to stay on the map, girls from across rural Montana compete for the state basketball title and a chance to bring home something worth celebrating. Montana native and basketball legend Phil Jackson brings insight and humor to the disappearing landscapes of his youth in a story that will change the way you see rural America.

Stefan is an emigrant night-cleaner at a London hospital, who is called upon to translate for an injured foreign man who has been rushed into Accident & Emergency. But Stefan recognises the patient as a brutal warlord from their former war-torn homeland. Now, will he help save the man’s life or take the ultimate revenge?