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	Goodbye Mr. Christie Phil Mulloy The return of the Christie family, whose absurd and hilarious tribulations were revealed in the series "The Christies". Their very busy daily life is perturbed by the arrival of Ramon, a French sailor with an irresistible charm. With the help of a little romantic melody, he enchants every member of the family and seduces them into sleeping with him. When Ramon and Mr. Christie meet, we discover that we are actually watching a documentary about the family, and that Mr. Christie has just dropped his pants live on television. But this gesture only increases their spectatorship and makes the family even more famous. The story gets more and more twisted and can only come to a radical conclusion.


	KEYHOLE Guy MADDIN IN THEATERS ON FEBRUARY 22nd 2012 A gangster and deadbeat father, Ulysses Pick, returns home after a long absence. He arrives, toting two teenagers: a drowned girl, Denny, who has mysteriously returned to life; and a bound‐and‐gagged hostage, who is actually his own teenage son, Manners. Confused, Ulysses doesn't recognize his own son, but he feels with increasing conviction he must make an indoor odyssey from the back door of his home all the way up, one room at a time, to the marriage bedroom where his wife Hyacinth awaits, full of cancer, grieving over the deaths of her three other children, and wooed by Ulysses' arch‐rival, Chang. The house is haunted by countless dead relatives. As in Homer's Odyssey, Ulysses reaches his goal and vanquishes his enemy, but the equilibrium of the house has been disturbed. Manners seeks solace in the dream world where order can be restored, but he cannot sleep forever. He wakes, overwhelmed by reality which he cannot bear. The house, familiar even in its disheveled state, saves Manners and he returns to his mother. Perhaps this has all been a dream that is dreamt every night by Manners himself or by the ghosts he loves so much.


	The uncle from Brooklyn Ciprì et Maresco IN THEATERS ON MAY 2012 The Gemelly family is made up of Gaetano the father, his three sons and a nephew who is paralysed from the waist down, and a bit crazy. They live in abject poverty in "postmodern" Palermo, where the world actually seems to have ended. On their way back from Tano's funeral, the three brothers meet two midgets - mafia bosses - who inform them that they have to take in, and hide, for a few days a mysterious character - the uncle from Brooklyn - who "comes from an unknown place". The Gemelli family obviously cannot refuse to grant this "favour", and so their "guest" moves in. The days go by without anyone coming to collect this uncle from Brooklyn who doesn't eat, doesn't sleep, and doesn't talk...


	Begotten Elias Merhige God disembowels himself with a straight razor. The spirit-like Mother Earth emerges, venturing into a bleak, barren landscape. Twitching and cowering, the Son Of Earth is set upon by faceless cannibals. Written by Marty Cassady {mcass@mindspring.com}

Putty Hill
Matt Porterfield

Cory dies of a heroin overdose in an abandoned house in Baltimore. On the eve of his funeral, family and friends gather to commemorate his life. Their shared memories paint a portrait of a community hanging in the balance, skewed by poverty, city living, and a generational divide, united in their pursuit of a new American Dream.

My Winnipeg
Guy MADDIN

SCREENING OF THE MOVIE AT LA MAISON ROUGE FOR THE EXHIBITION "MY WINNIPEG". ART WORKS OF 70 ARTISTS FROM WINNIPEG AND AN INSTALLATION OF GUY MADDIN (HAUNTING) Winding its way though the birthplace of personal mythologies, attempting to understand the nature of memory. Equal parts mystical rumination and personal history, city chronicle and deranged post-Freudian proletarian fantasy, My Winnipeg blends local myth with childhood trauma. All narrated by Maddin’s usual entertaining and inspired energy.

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Quay Brothers

Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?

Cabeza de Vaca
Nicolas Echevarria

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, as treasurer of Charles the Fift of Spain, embarks in 1528 to La Florida in the ill-fated expedition led by Panfilo de Narvaez with more than 500 men. Hunger, death and disease, decimate the expedition that finally arrives to the Louisania coast.