Silver 2007-05-23--2007-05-24

Drama, China. Guei moves to Beijing and gets a job as a bicycle messenger. He gets his bike from the company but has to pay for it from his wages, unfortunately the bike is stolen and he has to get it back from the more seedy side of Beijing. Director: Xiaoshuai Wang (113). With Lin Cui, Bin Li, Xun Zhou.

Comedy, UK. Anthony O'Malley is an aging never-was performer who convinces young colleague Tom to hone his craft by pretending to be someone he isn't in real life. They come up with a plan to rip off a gangster. Director: Conor McPherson (91). With Michael Caine, Dylan Moran, Michael Gambon.

Drama, Taiwan. Fei-Fei is a young woman who moves in with her best friend who's boyfriend is the top man in a local street gang. When she falls in love with Feng they move in together but Feng is soon drawn into the criminal underground. Director: Cheng-sheng Lin (105). With Chen Chang, Angelica Lee, Chen-Nan Tsai.

Comedy, UK. Four adult siblings get together for their mothers funeral, but they soon split up when one of them is stabbed in a bar fight. One of the brothers seek revenge, the stabbed one tries to hold out until the next day in order to claim for workers compensation. The other two spends the night in a chapel. When a violent storm hits the town they try to reunite. Director: Peter Mullan (101). With Douglas Henshall, Gary Lewis, Rosemarie Stevenson.

Drama, SPA. An escaped criminal gets a lift from a minister. When the minister is subsequently killed the criminal heads for the dead man's destination and assumes the ministerial position. Director: Marion Hänsel (112). With John Lynch, Oscar Petersen, Sylvia Esau.

Drama, ICE. Noi is a teenager living with his grandmother. Although very bright he is not interested in studying and is eventually kicked out of school. Lonely and with nothing to do he meets and falls in love with gas station attendant Iris. Director: Dagur Kári (89). With Tómas Lemarquis, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Elín Hansdóttir.

Drama, USA. Three teenaged girls living in New York spends a summer locked up by a demanding rehearsal schedule for their marching band. Besides that they have to take care of household chores since their parents are absent or in jail. Director: Jim McKay (95). With Kerry Washington, Anna Simpson, Melissa Martinez.

Drama, USA. Charlie Kaufman is the screenwriter behind Being John Malkovich and is also the main character of this film. He is hired to write a script based on the book The Orchid Thief and as he struggles with the script we see the action of the book being played out. Adaptation won one Oscar and two Golden Globes 2003. Director: Spike Jonze (114). With Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Crime, Can. Dan Mahowny is a quiet, modest employee of a bank in Toronto. What people doesn't know is that he has a secret life: he is a compulsive gambler. A promotion gives him the responsibility to approve loans and to cover his debts he starts to approve loans to non-existing clients. Director: Richard Kwietniowski (104). With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, John Hurt.

Drama, USA. Dr. Lily Penleric is a musicologist who quits her job and moves to a remote mountain school. There she discover the magic of local folk music and starts to record songs. She also discover that the culture she's seeking to preserve is threatened by a mining company who wants to buy land from the locals. Director: Maggie Greenwald (109). With Janet McTeer, Michael Davis, Michael Goodwin.

Drama, UK. George is a Nigerian living i New York. He has pledged to marry a woman in a marriage arranged for him in childhood. He is not very happy about this and on the way to pick up his fiancée he meets a man who tries to help him solve the problem. Director: Joel Hopkins (97). With Tunde Adebimpe, Hippolyte Girardot, Natalia Verbeke.

Comedy, UK. Stevie is an ex-con working at a building site where the workers are exploited by its supervisors and the conditions are very unsafe. One day he discovers a lost handbag and returns it to the owner, a singer named Susan, and they soon fall in love. Director: Ken Loach (95). With Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jim R. Coleman.