The West Wittering Affair

Director: David Scheinmann
Cast: David Annen, Rick Bacon, Rebecca Cardinale, Sarah Coomes, Malcom Ridley
Country: United Kingdom
Runtime: 85’
Language: English
Year: 2006

Awards 2006

Relationships rule our lives, whether we're in one and trying to get out, out of one and trying to get in, or in one and just trying to hang on. Commitment may be the hardest thing to pledge, but a one-night-stand can no longer be just harmless fun. Are love and fidelity out of fashion? See what happens when a group of friends have a weekend away in the country. The West Wittering affair is the moment of truth for 4 uptight 30 something London professionals, which propels their chaotic love lives on an emotional roller-coaster in this romantic sex-comedy of errors.

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La Creme
(The Cream)

Directed By: Reynald Bertrand
Cast: Laurent Legeay, Nicolas Abraham, Liliane Moreau, Jean-Claude Lucas
Country: France
Runtime: 83’
Language: French (English subtitles)
Year of Production: 2008

2008 Awards

François Mangin is out of work and vying for a new sales job. Unable to decide between François and another candidate, the boss-to-be demands they decide among themselves who will get the job. François is determined to get the upper hand, but a random Christmas gift of a jar of face cream is about to make the competition a whole lot easier...

Inexplicably, whenever François rubs on some of the cream, other people instantly think he’s someone famous. At first, the novelty of his new “celebrity” is a kind of fun and flattering. But as the newfound fame quickly goes to his head, it begins to wreak havoc on his ego, his marriage and even his civil liberties. Factor into the equation an enterprising rival, a knowing wife, a corrupt businessman, a femme fatale, an honest cop and a whole lot of loose women and the results are both hilarious and disastrous.

A subversive black comedy slathered with brilliant chaos and a dab of lunacy, The Cream is also insightful commentary on how we respond to celebrity and our own desires to be famous.

Slippery Slope

Director/Writer: Sarah Schenck
Cast: Dan Fogler, Jim True-Frost, Wes Ramsey
Runtime: 79 minutes
Year of Production: 2006
Country: United States
Language: English

A fierce young feminist filmmaker who is desperate for cash to finish her documentary "Feminism for Dummies" secretly takes a job directing a porn film after her other moneymaking schemes don't pan out.

She brings her feminist ideals to the porn set, and the experience unexpectedly awakens her slumbering sexuality, arousing the suspicions of her politically-correct husband and threatening her marriage.

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Don't Ask Don't Tell

Director: Dough Miles
Writer: Tex Hauser
Cast: Kielsen Baker, Martin Friederichs
Runtime: 80 minutes
Year of Production: 2002
Country: United States
Language: English

2002 AWARDS

 This re-dubbed parody uses footage from the science fiction B-movie Killers From Space. The soundtrack has been replaced with campy dialogue and added a few new scenes to make the film about a group of aliens who want to turn the whole world gay. In this version Graces is portrayed as a Dr. Fartin, a scientist involved in a conspiracy to get rid of gay people in the military. When he crash-lands in Texas, the aliens abduct him and take him back to their home base. Revived by the alien operations, the doctor becomes a homosexual agent of the aliens' covert plans.

TRAILER:
http://www.spike.com/video/dont-ask-dondont-ask/2434761

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Cuba Libre

Director: Raimundo García
Writers: Ulises Bermejo, Enrique Calvo, Raimundo García
Producers: David Jareno Ortega
Cast: Luis López Vázquez, Daniel Huarte, Sergio Villoldo, Kira Miró, Javier Gurruchaga, Xenia Reguant, Caco Senante, Rodolfo Sancho, Luciano Federico, Idelfonso Tamayo
Runtime: 85 minutes
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish with English subtitles

When a family of anarchist squatters is violently evicted from their "cultural centre" thanks to an overzealous reporter, a reckless car chase leads them to the doors of the Cuban Embassy in Madrid where a media frenzy has begun following Fidel Castro's announcement of Cuba's first democratic elections. The family lock the doors of the building and embark upon an "ideological occupation" of the Cuban Embassy.

Aided by a diplomat and Cuba's political upheaval, they create an international scandal in this outrageous comedy which pokes fun at Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolution, the squatter movement, the media and the police.

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