# Sleep Dealer
***Sleep Dealer*** is a 2008 futuristic science fiction film directed by Alex Rivera.
*Sleep Dealer* depicts a dystopian future to explore ways in which technology both oppresses and connects migrants. A fortified wall has ended unauthorized Mexico-US immigration, but migrant workers are replaced by robots, remotely controlled by the same class of would-be emigrants. Their life force is inevitably used up, and they are discarded without medical compensation.
*Sleep Dealer* is set in a future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor, and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, where three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the technology barriers.
Memo Cruz works at a factory, one of several sleep dealers. Here, workers are connected to the network via suspended cables that plug into nodes in their arms and back, allowing them to control the robots that have replaced them as unskilled labor on the other side of the border. The sleep dealers are called so because one may collapse if one works long enough. The story is told as a flashback, as Memo remembers his home in Santa Ana Del Rio, Oaxaca. His father wants him to participate in growing crops on the meager family homestead. Memo\'s passion, however, is electronics and hacking. The homestead also has dried up because of a dam built nearby and owned by the private corporation Del Rio Water. Memo and his father must trek on foot to buy water by the bag while monitored by security cameras armed with machine guns. The media on American hi-def TV shows glimpses of a technological dystopia, although in a positive light with superficial spin-doctoring. Memo is building an electronic receiver that can tap into communications as a hobby. As he continues to work on it, its range increases to faraway cities.


# Sleep Dealer
One summer, a remote-controlled military aerial vehicle operated by the security forces of Del Rio Water catches Memo monitoring a frequency used by the drones. This act warrants a brutal attack. He disconnects in time before the drone can locate him with certainty. On another occasion, he and his brother watch a live TV broadcast about a drone action that is about to destroy a building known to be intercepting drone communication. They quickly realize that the building is their own home, where Memo has his equipment, and run to save their father, whose life is in danger. However, they are too late, and the vehicle launches a rocket at the father, instantly killing him. The drone pilot is a Mexican-American named Rudy Ramirez. Memo boards a bus to the city of Tijuana to find work.
Luz Martínez also boards the same bus. Memo notices that Luz has nodes on the wrist for interfacing with the digital network and asks her where he can get them for free. She tells him that he can find someone, known as a coyotek, to connect him by asking around in a certain alley. Luz has loans and may default. She makes a living by uploading memories to an online memory trading company, TruNode, where viewers pay for content. She uploads her memory of meeting Memo.
Memo is robbed of his money during his first attempt to seek a coyotek. He finds an abandoned shack in which to stay at the edge of the city, where other node workers live. Luz gets a sale for her memory of Memo and a prepaid offer for her next memory of him. Luz finds him and learns he is out of money. She helps him get a node job at a bar that has the equipment. She is the coyotek, having learned from her ex-boyfriend, and she does him a favor.
Luz tries to upload more experiences. TruNode makes her reveal feelings rather than just the story. The person who requested the information is revealed to be Ramirez working for Del Rio Water. Luz and Memo open up to each other and have connected sex. Upon receiving the next upload, Ramirez has his doubts confirmed that his work made him kill a good man.


# Sleep Dealer
Memo discovers that Luz has been paid to upload her memories of him, and so he leaves her feeling betrayed. He works overtime at the sleep dealer, risking exhaustion. Luz writes to him and mails him a recording of her memories as a parting gift. In the meantime, Ramirez has crossed the fortified US-Mexican border to meet Memo. As Ramirez explains himself, Memo tries to run, perceiving danger. Ramirez catches up and explains he was under orders and offers to help.
Memo rejoins Luz and recruits her help to connect Ramirez to the network. He accesses the Del Rio Water security network to control one of the company\'s drones. Upon discovery that Ramirez is not heeding orders, other drones pursue Ramirez. After heated aerial dogfighting, Ramirez manages to blast a hole in the dam, directly where Memo\'s father had once tossed a pebble in helpless frustration. Memo receives news from his home and neighboring subsistence farms, celebrations of returning ancestral waters, albeit not necessarily a permanent one. Ramirez goes farther south in Mexico as he can no longer return to his family in the US. Memo moves on with his life in Tijuana.
- Leonor Varela as Luz Martínez
- Jacob Vargas as Rudy Ramirez
- Luis Fernando Peña as Memo Cruz
*Sleep Dealer* was generally well received by critics, with a 70% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, The H.R. Giger Award for the Best International Film at The Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, and a special mention Amnesty International Film Prize at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival. The film was nominated for the Breakthrough Director Award at the Gotham Independent Film Awards 2008, and an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature in 2009.
A.O. Scott, of *The New York Times* wrote \"Exuberantly entertaining --- a dystopian fable of globalization disguised as a science-fiction adventure.... Mr. Rivera --- a brilliant young director --- takes his audience into a future of "aqua-terrorism" and cyberlabor that I wish I could dismiss as implausible\...\" in his review of the 2008 New Directors/New Films Festival.


# Sleep Dealer
Kenneth Turan, of the *Los Angeles Times* wrote \"Adventurous, ambitious and ingeniously futuristic, \"Sleep Dealer\" is a welcome surprise. It combines visually arresting science fiction done on a budget with a strong sense of social commentary in a way that few films attempt, let alone achieve\...\" in his review of the film.
*Sleep Dealer*'s cultural impact relates to its social commentary on contemporary issues through the lens of science-fiction. Javier Ramírez remarks that Rivera's "innovative deployment of science fiction encourages us to question our present reality, by projecting into the future." Through his imagining of a possible future, Rivera critiques today's issues including immigration, drone warfare, and technological advances. His film is part of the emerging genre of speculative fiction called Latinxfuturism or Chicanafuturism, of which both have roots in Afrofuturism. Latinxfuturism defamiliarizes the familiar and challenges the status quo of society by reimagining reality or providing alternative representations. In his film review in the New York Times, A.O. Scott writes that "Mr. Rivera's vision of Tijuana...is...an unsettlingly plausible extrapolation of what that city already represents." In this way, Rivera uses the reality of what Tijuana and the maquiladoras represent for Mexicans and society as a whole to project a dystopic possibility of what its progress may become, making the audience question current conditions. The possibility of complete human exploitation of foreign labor markets through the use of nodes becomes a little less fictional with the referential point of Tijuana today, thus, defamiliarizing what is familiar.


# Sleep Dealer
Arguably the most important cultural impact of the film, *Sleep Dealer* provides POC representation and humanizes political issues through characters such as Memo and Luz. David Montgomery of The Washington Post comments that the film "puts a human face on all" the problems explored in the movie. The significance of seeing oneself in the stories told about the future is not lost on the film makers or its reviewers. Part of the goal of Latinxfuturist works is situating people of color as the protagonists in the representations of what our world could be. Montgomery goes on to comment, "The whole world has a future, yet 'Sleep Dealer' is one of the first science fiction films largely set in the underdeveloped parts --- a milestone in film history."
The placing of bodies of color within a pre-existing system is part of the rebellion against hegemonic colonial narratives with which Latinxfuturism contends. The other Latinxfuturist path is creating alternative systems that people of color exist in without the restraints of the present reality. In Aimee Bahng's book *Migrant Futures*, she points out that "*Sleep dealer* argues for and instantiates the production of alternative futures that fight against not only obsolescence but also obfuscations of the past that paved the way for the colonization of the future." That is to say, sleep dealer not only criticizes the current system but works to deconstruct the narrative mechanisms that uphold colonial influences. *Sleep Dealer* contributes to the Latinxfuturist works that try to represent people of color as well as reimagine a future without the colonialist androcentric oppressive forces that mark today's society.

### See also
- Speculative Fiction (by writers of color)
- Weird Fiction


# Nynne
***Nynne*** is a Danish film directed by Jonas Elmer, starring Mille Dinesen. It is based on the bestselling Danish novel *Nynnes dagbog* (en. *Nynne\'s Diary*) by Henriette Lind, Lotte Thorsen and Anette Vestergaard, which again was based on a popular newspaper column in *Politiken*. *Nynne* was the fourth-most seen film total in theaters in Denmark in 2005, with 429,301 tickets sold. (The most seen was *Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire*). Dinesen reprised the role in a short series the following year.
The film is about Nynne, who lives in the city. She is single, in her 30s, comforts herself with power shopping, has unsuccessful dates, loves to gossip with her friends, and has a hangover every weekend.
- Mille Dinesen as Nynne
- Lars Kaalund as Martin
- Jimmi Jørgensen as Daniel
- Mette Agnete Horn as Merete
- Stine Stengade as Natasha
- Claes Bang as Henrik
- Lene Maria Christensen as Beate
- Ole Lemmeke as Poul Erik Ø
- Lars Hjortshøj as Hans
- Anne-Lise Gabold as Henriks mor
- Asta Esper Hagen Andersen as Henriks mormor
- Tatiana Pajkovic as Fiona
- Laura Christensen as Fiona\'s friend
- Martin Kongstad as domestic worker
- Lærke Winther Andersen as sales assistant
- Christian Tafdrup as guy at restaurant
The movie\'s soundtrack was composed by Søren Hyldgaard.
**CD track list**


# Nynne
1.  Clark Anderson -- \"Real Love\"
2.  Terry Walker -- \"Ain't No Love\"
3.  Alex -- \"Os To!\"
4.  Johnny Deluxe -- \"Det Du Gør\"
5.  Bryan Rice -- \"No Promises\"
6.  Søs Fenger -- \"Lykken Vender\" (Nynnes Mantra)
7.  Eddie Holman -- \"Hey There Lonely Girl\"
8.  Remee Allstars -- \"My Way\"
9.  Pelding Feat. Joy Morgan -- \"Little Girl Blue\"
10. Brinck -- \"It\'s My Life\"
11. Beverley Knight -- \"Keep This Fire Burning\"
12. New Originals Feat. Mibb & Michael Carøe -- \"Superstar\"
13. Sisse Marie -- \"Boom\"
14. Terry Walker -- \"Whoopsie Daisy Hit'n Run\"
**Songs in the movie, not listed on the soundtrack CD, include:**
- Billie Holiday -- \"The Man I Love\"
- Shirley Bassey -- \"Big Spender\"
- Bing Crosby -- \"Here Comes Santa Claus\"
- Brigitte Bardot -- \"Ne Me Laisse Pas L\'aimer\"


# Cell (film)
***Cell*** is a 2016 American science fiction horror film based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Stephen King. The film is directed by Tod Williams, produced by John Cusack, with a screenplay by King and Adam Alleca. The film stars John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, and Isabelle Fuhrman. The film was released on June 10, 2016 to video on demand, prior to a limited release scheduled for July 8, 2016. *Cell* is the second film adaptation of a King story to co-star Cusack and Jackson, after the 2007 film *1408*. The film\'s story follows a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell phone network turns the majority of his fellow humans into mindless vicious animals.
The film received negative reviews from critics upon its release for being poorly crafted and lacking suspense.
Clay Riddell is a disillusioned artist who a year earlier abandoned his wife Sharon and son Johnny in order to fulfill his dream of publishing a graphic novel. At Boston International Airport, Clay tries to board a flight, hoping to reconcile with his family. His cell phone battery dies, so he calls Sharon using a payphone. Suddenly an electronic signal (later dubbed \"the pulse\") is broadcast across mobile networks worldwide, turning cell phone users into rabid killers. Clay escapes the chaos in the terminal and meets a group of survivors in a subway car. The train\'s conductor, Tom McCourt, suggests abandoning the train and traveling through the tunnels, since power has been cut to the subway trains and the pumps keeping the tunnels dry will soon shut down with no one manning them. Clay agrees and, joined by a third man, attempts to escape the airport.
Near the tunnel\'s exit, their companion is slaughtered by an infected man, later dubbed a \"phoner\", and the two escape to the street above. Clay leads Tom to his apartment. That night, they are joined by Alice Maxwell, a teenage neighbor of Clay\'s who killed her mother in self-defense. All three decide to escape Boston. Heading north through New England to find Sharon and Johnny, the three acquire weapons from a house and are chased by a flock of phoners to a nearby river. Hiding from the infected, they observe the flock emitting mysterious signals from their mouths and then walking off as a group.


# Cell (film)
After sundown the three arrive at a private school, where they meet two survivors: headmaster Charles Ardai and a student named Jordan. Charles postulates that the phoners have developed a hive mind and are telepathic. He shows them thousands of phoners lying inert in the school\'s athletic field. Charles has a plan to use the stadium\'s gas pumps and a sprayer truck to burn the phoners, and the others agree to help. Clay and Tom drive over the phoners, spraying them with gasoline, which Charles sets ablaze. The fire spreads, causing an explosion that kills Charles. The remaining group, now including Jordan, continue north.
Taking shelter at an abandoned drive-in theater, the four go to sleep, and all of them dream about a raggedy-looking man in a red hoodie, a character from Clay\'s graphic novel. Later they encounter a group of survivors in a roadside bar. They tell the four about Kashwak, a state park in Maine where there is said to be no cell service. After agreeing to travel there, they spend the night in the bar. Sally, one of the survivors, is awoken and infected by a group outside. She can now transmit the pulse through her mouth. The group attacks Tom and Jordan. After saving Tom from a phoner, Alice is bludgeoned in the head by Sally, whom Tom fatally shoots. The group takes Alice outside, where she succumbs to her head wound.
Later, the group encounter a sleepless Ray Huizenga and his friend Denise, who say that Kashwak is a trap set by the Raggedy Man. Ray becomes increasingly agitated, muttering that the Raggedy Man is planting thoughts in his head. He gives Clay his cell phone and tells him to call the number on it when they reach the end of the road. Ray then kills himself with a bomb around his neck. In Ray\'s truck, the group discovers a huge quantity of C-4 explosives. When the group makes it to Sharon\'s house, Clay learns that Johnny has headed for Kashwak and that Sharon has turned into a phoner. After killing her, Clay drives alone to Kashwak, intent on locating Johnny, while the others continue north, leaving marks as a trail for Clay.


# Cell (film)
At Kashawk, Clay finds thousands of phoners walking in an enormous circle around a communications tower. Clay sees the Raggedy Man at the center of the circle, runs him over and repeatedly shoots him. Then Clay hears his son calling to him from amongst the flock and escapes from the circle. An infected Johnny appears before him and the Raggedy Man returns to life. Clay hugs his son as he calls the number on Ray\'s phone, detonating the explosives in the truck, destroying the tower and the phoners. Clay and his son find the marks and follow the trail toward Clay\'s friends. However, the explosion is revealed to be an illusion: Clay has been infected and is now walking in the circle around the tower.

### Development
The film is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Stephen King. Dimension Films announced in March 2006 that Eli Roth would direct the project after finishing *Hostel: Part II*. Roth exited the project in 2009, saying:


# Cell (film)
### Development
Following Roth\'s departure, *Screen Rant* noted that the film \"faded into the background\". However, in October 2012, John Cusack was announced as the first actor to join the film, followed by the selection of Tod Williams as director in early 2013. In November 2013, Samuel L. Jackson was cast as Tom McCourt. Isabelle Fuhrman was announced as Alice on February 5, 2014, and Stacy Keach was cast in an unnamed role of a headmaster the following day. The film was shot over 25 days in January 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia.
In February 2015, the producers of the film announced that Clarius Entertainment had acquired distribution rights. The company, now called Aviron Pictures, later dropped the film. Saban Films later acquired distribution rights to the film. It was to receive its world premiere at FrightFest as part of the Glasgow Film Festival but was replaced at the last minute by *Pandemic*. The film was released on June 10, 2016, to video on demand, prior to opening in a limited release on July 8, 2016.
*Cell* was panned by most critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 11% based on 54 reviews and an average score of 3.91/10. The site\'s critical consensus reads, \"Shoddily crafted and devoid of suspense, *Cell* squanders a capable cast and Stephen King\'s once-prescient source material on a bland rehash of zombie cliches.\" On Metacritic, the film has a score of 38 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating \"generally unfavorable reviews\".


# Cell (film)
### Development
Jeannette Catsoulis of *The New York Times* criticized the film\'s \"bare-bones screenplay\" for being \"wholly unable to deliver even a smidgen of nuance or depth\", and called Cusack\'s performance \"possibly the most detached\" of his career. Owen Gleiberman of *Variety* referred to the outbreak scene in the airport as the \"only unsettling scene\" in the film, and wrote that \"the film is about as close as you could get to a generic low-budget undead thriller\". Steve Greene of IndieWire gave the film a grade of \"C-\", calling it \"a character study with a dearth of character\", and concluding that the film has \"no greater message \... except that using a Bluetooth headset to call someone from an airport bathroom stall should be punishable by zombification\".
Odie Henderson of RogerEbert.com gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, commending the performances of Cusack, Jackson, and Keach but criticizing the film\'s \"occasional lack of storytelling clarity\", calling it \"rushed and unclear in its details about the pulse and its aftermath\". Patrick Cooper of Bloody Disgusting called it a \"forgettable adaptation\" and further stated that \"the story packs absolutely no punch and the solid stable of actors look bored for most of the film\". Nico Lang of *Consequence of Sound* wrote that *Cell* wasted an intriguing premise and called it \"unnecessarily glum and grim,\" as well as \"pretty dumb\". Bob Grimm of *Coachella Valley Independent* wrote that the movie \"is easily one of the worst adaptations ever of a King story\".


# Kispus
***Kispus*** is a 1956 Danish romantic comedy film written and directed by Erik Balling. The film was the first Danish feature movie to be filmed in colour.
The eccentric fashion designer Mr. Marcel gives his newly designed gown to the common working-class seamstress, Eva, when he sees how well it fits her. He then bets the actress who originally ordered the gown that if Eva wears his creation to an upcoming movie premiere, she will be accepted as a high-society woman. He is right and Eva attracts the young aristocrat Jakob. Eva fears that Jakob will discover her lowly background, but Jakob himself is a fraud. He is only a poor student who works as a chauffeur and sells his books to take her out. After numerous misunderstandings and complications, love wins out over snobbery and fraud.
- Helle Virkner as Eva Møller, seamstress
- Henning Moritzen as Jakob, student
- as Hr. Marcel, fashion designer
- Nina Pens Rode as Elizabeth, primadonna
- Gunnar Lauring as Carl, Elizabeth\'s husband
- Ove Sprogøe as Max, waiter, Eva\'s brother
- Lis Løwert as Joan, Max\'s wife
- Inger Lassen as Jokum, Mr. Marcel\'s agent
- Gerda Madsen as Mrs. Knudsen, Jakob\'s landlady
- Poul Reichhardt as An actor
- Margaretha Fahlén as Actor\'s wife
- Birgitte Federspiel as Dora, Society Lady
- Vera Gebuhr as Ida, actress
- Jessie Rindom as Society Lady
- Bjørn Watt-Boolsen as Svend, writer
- Lily Broberg as Svend\'s ex-wife


# An Education
***An Education*** is a 2009 coming-of-age drama film based on a memoir of the same name by British journalist Lynn Barber. The film was directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by Nick Hornby. It stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, a bright schoolgirl, and Peter Sarsgaard as David, the charming conman who seduces her. The film was nominated for 3 Academy Awards in 2010: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay for Nick Hornby, and Best Actress for Carey Mulligan.
*An Education* premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. It screened on 10 September 2009 at the Toronto International Film Festival and was featured at the Telluride by the Sea Film Festival in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on 19 September 2009. The film was shown on 9 October 2009, at the Mill Valley Film Festival. It was released in the US on 16 October 2009 and in the UK on 30 October 2009.
In 1961 London, Jenny Mellor is a bright and beautiful 16-year-old schoolgirl who wishes to attend Oxford University. Her studies are controlled by her strict, overbearing father, Jack. After youth orchestra rehearsals, Jenny waits at a bus stop on the street in the rain when she meets David Goldman, a seductive older Jewish man driving a Bristol 405. Telling her that he is a music lover and that he is worried about her cello getting wet, David convinces Jenny to put her cello in his car while she walks alongside. As the rain becomes stronger, Jenny asks David if she can sit inside his car. The two continue talking about music and, before being dropped off, Jenny confesses that she will be able to do whatever she wants when she reaches university, such as going to art galleries and watching French films, wishing for a life of culture and luxury. The following week, David leaves flowers on Jenny\'s front porch, wishing her luck at her youth orchestra\'s concert. Later, she sees him outside the cafe she and her friends are in and approaches him. After a little small talk, David asks Jenny if she is free to go see a concert and have supper with him and his friends. She happily agrees and thanks him.


# An Education
On the night of the concert, Jack disapproves of Jenny going while her much more lenient mother, Marjorie, tells him otherwise. David comes by to pick Jenny up and to talk to her parents, where he easily charms his way into convincing Jack that he take Jenny home later than her intended curfew. They arrive at the concert where Jenny meets David\'s friends, Danny and Helen. Afterward, they go to dinner at a fancy restaurant, where they invite Jenny to an art auction. David picks up Jenny at school and they go to the auction, winning a bid for a painting by Edward Burne-Jones and going to Danny\'s place afterwards. They talk about Oxford and they all agree to go and visit together the following weekend.
Jenny hears a commotion late one night and sees David drinking with her parents. He then uses the opportunity to ask them if he can take Jenny to Oxford, saying that he used to study there and would like to visit his old teacher, Clive Lewis, the author of *The Chronicles of Narnia*. Her parents are reluctant at first, but agree, seeing it as a good opportunity. At Oxford, Jenny discovers that David is a con man who makes money through a variety of shady practices. She is initially shocked but silences her misgivings as she succumbs to David\'s charm. Back at her home, Jenny and David have their first kiss. Jenny then shows a signed copy of *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe* to her parents, which David actually signed. Impressed by his connections and charisma, Jack and Marjorie approve of their romantic relationship.
On the night of Jenny\'s 17th birthday, David arrives with presents and tells her parents that he intends to take her to Paris as a special birthday gift. Her father angrily disapproves, but later agrees after David talks to him. In Paris, the two dance, take photos, and Jenny eventually loses her virginity to David. Back in London, Jenny gives her favorite teacher, Miss Stubbs, Chanel perfume as a gift from her trip. Miss Stubbs refuses the gift, telling Jenny that she knows where it came from and is both concerned and disapproving of her relationship with David. They argue and have a falling-out. Later that night, David proposes marriage. Jenny accepts the proposal and, after an argument with the headmistress, decides to drop out of school and not apply to university.


# An Education
While getting petrol on their way to dinner with her parents, Jenny rummages through the car\'s glove compartment for a cigarette and discovers, through letters, that David is already married. Shocked, Jenny tells David to take her and her parents back home. Jenny argues with David, telling him she gave up her education to be with him. David says he will get a divorce and agrees that he will go and tell her parents the truth with her. She then goes inside her house, her father asking what happened. Jenny tells her parents that David is mustering up the courage before coming inside to confront them. However, he drives off and is never seen again.
Jenny despairs, blaming Danny and Helen for not telling her the truth early on and blaming her parents for letting her throw her life away with an older man. Jenny confronts David\'s wife, and learns that David is a serial adulterer, and has a son. Later that night, Jack apologizes to Jenny, admitting that he messed up and that he believed David could give her the life she wanted. Jack points out that although David wasn\'t who he said he was, Jenny had also deceived her parents about David\'s nature by playing along with some of David\'s lies to her parents. Jenny then goes back to her school, requesting to repeat her last year and take her exams, but is refused re-admission. She then goes to Miss Stubbs, asking for help. She resumes her studies and is accepted at Oxford the following year. In a closing voiceover, Jenny shares a story about dating boys her age and starting over with fresh eyes, despite her experiences with David.


# An Education
- Carey Mulligan as Jenny Mellor
- Peter Sarsgaard as David Goldman
- Dominic Cooper as Danny, David\'s friend and partner in crime (Orlando Bloom was originally cast in this role but dropped out before shooting began).
- Rosamund Pike as Helen, Danny\'s girlfriend.
- Alfred Molina as Jack Mellor, Jenny\'s father.
- Cara Seymour as Marjorie Mellor, Jenny\'s mother.
- Emma Thompson as Miss Walters, the headmistress at Jenny\'s school.
- Olivia Williams as Miss Stubbs, Jenny\'s concerned teacher.
- Sally Hawkins as Sarah Goldman, David\'s wife.
- Matthew Beard as Graham, a boy Jenny knows from the Youth Orchestra.
- Ellie Kendrick as Tina, Jenny\'s friend from school.
- Ashley Rice as Petrol Attendant

### Development
Mulligan during a Q&A following the screening of *An Education* at the Ryerson Theatre on 25 September 2009.
Nick Hornby created the screenplay based on an autobiographical essay by the British journalist Lynn Barber about her schoolgirl affair with conman Simon Prewalski, referred to by her as Simon Goldman, which was published in the literary magazine *Granta* (82: Life\'s Like That, Summer 2003). Hornby was the boyfriend of Amanda Posey, the film\'s producer, whom he later married.


# An Education
### Development
Both the memoir and the film also allude briefly to Peter Rachman, the notorious post-World War II London property speculator, who Goldman is working for. Barber\'s full memoir, *An Education*, was not published in book form until June 2009, when filming had already been completed. Hornby said that what appealed to him in the memoir was that \"She\'s a suburban girl who\'s frightened that she\'s going to get cut out of everything good that happens in the city. That, to me, is a big story in popular culture. It\'s the story of pretty much every rock \'n\' roll band.\" Although the screenplay involved Hornby writing about a teenage girl, he did not feel it was more challenging than writing any other character: \"I think the moment you\'re writing about somebody who\'s not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal. I was glad that everyone around me on this movie was a woman so that they could watch me carefully. But I don\'t remember anyone saying to me, \'That isn\'t how women think.\'\"

### Visual style
Although Jenny\'s family home and her school are supposed to be in the suburb of Twickenham, Middlesex (incorrectly referred to as \'Twickenham, London\' -- Twickenham did not become part of Greater London until 1965), the residential scenes featured in the film were shot on Carbery Avenue in the Gunnersbury area of Ealing, west London as well as Mattock Lane in West Ealing and The Japanese School in Acton, which used to be the site of the girls\' school called Haberdashers\' Aske\'s School for Girls. The concert hall shown in the film, St John\'s, Smith Square would have still been a wartime ruin at the time the film was set. It was subsequently restored and opened as a concert hall in October 1969.
Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard at the New York premiere in October 2009


# An Education
### Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 93% based on 197 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The site\'s consensus reads: \"Though the latter part of the film may not appeal to all, *An Education* is a charming coming-of-age tale powered by the strength of former newcomer Carey Mulligan\'s standout performance.\" The film has a Metacritic score of 85/100 based on 34 reviews, indicating \"universal acclaim\".

### Box office
*An Education* grossed £1,633,504 in the UK. and \$US26,096,852 worldwide.

### Accolades
*An Education* won the Audience Choice award and the Cinematography award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Mulligan won a Hollywood Film Festival award for Best Hollywood Breakthrough Performance for a Female.
It was selected as *Sight & Sound\'s* film of the month.
The film received three nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actress for Carey Mulligan and Best Adapted Screenplay, but did not win in any category. The 63rd British Academy Film Awards saw the film come away with one award (for Best Actress) from nine nominations. The film received six British Independent Film Awards nominations and five Satellite Awards nominations.

### Home media
*An Education* was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 30 March 2010.

### Theatrical play
The first adaptation of the screenplay to live theatre was staged at the University of St Andrews in 2019 at the annual On the Rocks Festival.


# 1 (2009 film)
***1*** is the first feature film of Hungarian director/production designer Pater Sparrow. It was inspired by *One Human Minute* by Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem, a work of pseudepigrapha.
A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously filled with copies of a book entitled *1*, which doesn\'t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac is filled with tables and statistics that describe everything that happens in the world in the course of one minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff, along with a mysterious visitor from Vatican City who arrived just as the book did, are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research (RDI - Reality Defense Institute). As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book increasingly well known, raising numerous controversies. Slowly, the lead investigator, Phil Pitch, begins to lose his grip on reality.
- The film debuted at the 40th Hungarian Film Week where it won 5 awards: Best Cinematography, Best Editor, Best Visual Design, Best Producer, and received the Best First Feature Film award from the Student Jury.
- Also won the Hungarian Film Critics Award in 2010 for best visual achievement.
- Best Director and Best Actor for Zoltán Mucsi at the 30th Fantasporto International Film Festival.
- Best Director at the 20th Fantastic Film Festival of the University of Málaga (*Fancine Málaga*)
- Best Sci-Fi feature at the 5th Cinefantasy Film Festival in San Paulo.
- Audience Award at the 16th International Festival of Young Filmmakers in Granada and at the 7th Fresh Film Fest in Praha.
Official selections:
- 42nd SITGES International Film Festival of Fantastic Films / \'New Visions - Discovery\' section
- Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival \'European\' and \'7th Orbit\' competition
- The London International Festival Of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film
- Festival International du Film Policier de Liege
- Göteborg International Film Festival
- New York Lincoln Center/ Hungarian Film Festival
- SFF-rated Athens Intl Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival
- Triest S+F International Film Festival.
- Bradford International Film Festival,
- Oslo International Film Festival,
- Brussels EuroCine 27 Festival
- Israel Icon Film Festival
- Ourense International Independent Film Festival
- Fantasy Montreal International Film Festival
- Montevideo Fantastic Film Festival


# Back to Babylon (film)
***Back to Babylon*** (, ) is a documentary film directed by the Iraqi-French film director Abbas Fahdel.
Back in his home town of Babylon after a long exile, the Iraqi-born director Abbas Fahdel asks himself: \"What has become of my friends? What has life here made of them? What would life here have made of me had I not decided to follow the course of destiny elsewhere?\" In his search and inquiries, his encounters with the friends of his youth, it is the situation today in Iraq that is revealed through the camera\'s eye: the ravages of Saddam Hussein\'s dictatorship, the after-effects of the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and the embargo imposed by the United Nations.
- Cinema of Iraq
- Iraqi culture


# Madagascar (2005 film)
***Madagascar*** is a 2005 American computer-animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. The film was directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath (in McGrath\'s feature directorial debut) and written by Mark Burton, Billy Frolick, Darnell, and McGrath. The film stars Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, and Andy Richter. The film centers around a group of animals from the Central Park Zoo who find themselves stranded on the island of Madagascar.
Released on May 27, 2005, *Madagascar* received mixed reviews from critics but was a success at the box office, becoming the sixth highest-grossing film of 2005. It launched the *Madagascar* franchise which includes the sequels *Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa* (2008) and *Madagascar 3: Europe\'s Most Wanted* (2012); the spin-off film *Penguins of Madagascar* (2014); several short films, television series, and specials; and a number of video games, theme park attractions, and live stage shows.
At the Central Park Zoo, Marty the zebra celebrates his tenth birthday but has grown bored with his daily routine and longs to experience the wild. Marty\'s best friend, Alex the lion, enjoys showing off for the public and his celebrity status as \"the king of New York\".
Alex attempts to cheer Marty up, but Marty, still unsatisfied, learns that the zoo\'s penguins---Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private---are trying to escape, and follows them out. Alex, and his friends, Melman the giraffe, and Gloria the hippopotamus pursue Marty and attempt to convince him to return. The four, along with the penguins and two chimpanzees named Mason and Phil, converge at Grand Central Station where the authorities sedate them using tranquillizer guns. Under pressure from anti-captivity activists, the zoo is forced to ship the escaped animals by sea to a Kenyan wildlife preserve. During their travels, the penguins escape and take over the ship, intent on taking it to Antarctica. Their antics on the bridge cause the crates containing Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria to fall overboard and wash ashore on Madagascar.


# Madagascar (2005 film)
The animals come across a pack of lemurs led by King Julien XIII. The predatory fossa attack the lemurs, but are scared off by Alex\'s fearsome appearance. Alex blames Marty for the group\'s predicament and attempts to signal for help to get back to civilization. Marty finds the wild to be exactly what he was looking for, and Gloria and Melman soon join him in enjoying the island. Alex eventually comes around, but without the raw steaks he was provided at the zoo, hunger sets in and his prey drive begins to show. King Julien has the lemurs befriend the zoo animals in the hope that Alex\'s presence will keep the fossa at bay, despite his adviser Maurice\'s warnings about Alex\'s predatory nature. When Alex loses control and attacks Marty, King Julien realizes that he is a threat and banishes him to the predator side of the island, where the fossa live. Seeing what has happened to Alex, and how dangerous the wild can be, Marty begins to regret his decision to leave the zoo.
The penguins, having found Antarctica to be inhospitable, land the ship at Madagascar. Seeing the chance to return Alex to New York, Marty crosses over to the predator side and attempts to convince the grizzled, starving Alex to return, but Alex refuses out of fear that he will attack Marty again. The fossa attack Marty, and though Gloria, Melman, and the penguins come to the rescue, they are outnumbered. Alex overcomes his predatory instincts, rescues his friends, and scares the fossa away from the lemur territory forever. The lemurs regain their respect for Alex, and the penguins satisfy his hunger by feeding him sushi. As the lemurs throw a farewell celebration for the foursome, the penguins decide not to break the news that the ship has run out of fuel, thus leaving them stranded on the island.
David Schwimmer at the film\'s British premiere in London


# Madagascar (2005 film)
- Ben Stiller as Alex, a lion. Tom McGrath explained that \"Ben Stiller was the first actor we asked to perform, and we knew we wanted his character, Alex, to be a big performing lion with a vulnerable side.\"
- Chris Rock as Marty, a plains zebra. McGrath explained the character: \"Marty is a guy who thinks there might be more to life than what\'s in the zoo. We wanted his character to be energetic, so we listened to Chris Rock.\"
- David Schwimmer as Melman, a hypochondriac reticulated giraffe who is afraid of germs. When they were looking for a voice actor for Melman, they listened to Schwimmer\'s voice on *Friends* and, according to McGrath, thought that it \"sounded really neat.\" During development, Melman the Giraffe was originally supposed to be an okapi but was changed to a giraffe.
- Jada Pinkett Smith as Gloria, a strong, confident, but sweet hippopotamus. McGrath said that they found all these traits in Pinkett Smith\'s voice when they listened to her.
- Sacha Baron Cohen as King Julien XIII, a ring-tailed lemur and the king of the lemurs. King Julien was initially only meant to be a \"two-line\" character until auditioning Baron Cohen improvised eight minutes of dialogue in an Indian accent.
- Cedric the Entertainer as Maurice, an aye-aye and King Julien\'s royal advisor (to whom Julien never listens).
- Andy Richter as Mort, a Goodman\'s mouse lemur.
- Tom McGrath as Skipper, the leader of the penguins. McGrath, who was also the film\'s co-director and co-writer, initially only lent his voice to the temporary tracks. Growing up with films starring tough actors like John Wayne, Charlton Heston, and Robert Stack, McGrath wanted Stack for the voice of Skipper. Stack was approached about voicing the character, but died two weeks before production on the animation began. After that, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg decided to keep the temporary voice, with McGrath explaining: \"People were used to me doing that voice. We knew it worked when we screened it.\" Many of the character\'s traits were based on Stack\'s work. McGrath especially emphasized *The Untouchables*, a 1959 television crime drama series starring Stack.
- Chris Miller as Kowalski, a penguin and Skipper\'s right hand.
  - Miller also voices Timo, a tenrec who is only seen attending Julien\'s meeting.
- Jeffrey Katzenberg as Rico, a smart and silent penguin who is only expressed through grunts and squeals. Mireille Soria, the film\'s producer, commented on Katzenberg\'s uncredited role: \"The irony for us is that he\'s the one who doesn\'t talk. There\'s something very Dadaistic about that, isn\'t there?\"
  - Katzenberg also voices Abner, a blue-eyed lemur who is only seen at the paradise scene.
- Christopher Knights as Private, an eager, lowly penguin. Knights was also an assistant editor on the film.
- Conrad Vernon as Mason, a chimpanzee (Phil, the other chimpanzee, is unvoiced).
- Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath as the fossa.
  - Darnell also voices Hector and Horst, two lemurs.
- David P. Smith as Pancho, a crowned lemur.
  - Smith also voices Becca, a black lemur and a spider.
- Elisa Gabrielli as Nana, an elderly New Yorker. Gabrielli provided some background voices until the directors and producer asked her and her fellow actors if they wanted to try their voices for the role. Upon seeing a black and white sketch of Nana, Gabrielli knew that she wanted to voice her. She modeled Nana\'s voice after her Russian and Hungarian grandmothers and her stepfather, though she didn\'t think that her voice would be kept in the finished film at first.
- Bob Saget as an unspecified off-screen zoo animal.
- David Cowgill as a police horse.
- Stephen Apostolina as a police officer.


# Madagascar (2005 film)
According to co-director Tom McGrath, the idea for *Madagascar* began as a one-sentence prompt, and it took two years of development for the idea to be refined to the point where the four main characters were finalized. In 1998, DreamWorks and PDI had started development on an animated film titled *Rockumentary*, which featured a Beatles-esque penguin rock band. The idea was scrapped, but after production on *Madagascar* started, director Eric Darnell decided to revive the penguins, but make them a commando unit instead of a rock band. In the original script Gloria was going to be pregnant due to being part of the zoo\'s breeding program and the baby was going to be born on the island and Melman, who is revealed to have a crush on Gloria would help raise the child like it was his own son. The idea was cut from the final version because the test audiences felt like the pregnancy plotline was too risky and mature for a family film especially young children who felt uncomfortable with the pairing of Melman and Gloria and may have gotten the film a PG-13 rating. However, the idea of Melman having a crush on Gloria was reused for the sequels. One of the lead characters was formerly to be an okapi. As a result, the character, Melman, was changed and played by a giraffe which is a more familiar animal. Originally, Julien was intended to be a minor character with only two lines. However, when Sacha Baron Cohen auditioned for the role, he improvised not only an Indian accent, but eight minutes of dialogue for his recording. The filmmakers found Cohen\'s performance so funny that they rewrote the script and made Julien a much more prominent character in the story as \"King of the Lemurs\". Madagascar introduced many sequels to the movie and later in 2014 made a goofy spin-off \"Netflix\" series called \"All Hail King Julien\" based on the lemur character in the Madagascar movies named King Julien also known as the \"King Of Madagascar\".
*Madagascar* was released on DVD and VHS on November 15, 2005, by DreamWorks Home Entertainment. The DVD included a short animated film *The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper*, and a music video \"I Like to Move It,\" featuring characters from the film dancing to the song. A Blu-ray version of the film was released on September 23, 2008.


# Madagascar (2005 film)
The *Madagascar - Movie Storybook* was written by Billy Frolick and illustrated by Michael Koelsch, and was published by Scholastic in 2005. Koelsch also illustrated the *Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - Movie Storybook* in 2008.

### Box office
The film was a commercial success. On its opening weekend, the film grossed \$47,224,594 with a \$11,431 average from 4,131 theaters making it the number 3 movie of that weekend behind *Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith* and *The Longest Yard*. However, the film managed to claim the top position in the U.S. box office the following week with a gross of \$28,110,235. In the United States, the film eventually grossed \$193,595,521, and in foreign areas grossed \$362,964,045 with a summative worldwide gross of \$556,559,566.

### Critical reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a 55% approval rating based on 190 reviews, with an average rating of 6.10/10. The consensus reads: \"Though its story is problematic in spots and its humor is hit-or-miss for the adult crowd, *Madagascar* boasts impressive visuals and enough spunky charm to keep children entertained.\" On Metacritic, the film has a 57% approval rating based on 36 reviews falling under the \"Mixed or Average\" category.


# Madagascar (2005 film)
### Critical reception
Paul Arendt of BBC gave the film 4/5 stars, writing: \"It\'s also a pleasure to see a cartoon so determinedly devoid of sentiment, a stance confirmed by the hilarious demise of an angelic little duckling. Highly recommended for kids and adults.\" Jeff Strickler of the *Star Tribune* gave the film 3/4 stars, describing it as a \"good-natured kid flick\" and writing: \"This computer-animated comedy makes enough kowtows to adult humor that parents won\'t be bored, but it is clearly aimed at the peewee set.\" Ann Hornaday of *The Washington Post* described the film as \"wildly fun\" and wrote: \"along with such recent classics as *Shrek*, *Finding Nemo* and *The Incredibles*, *Madagascar* will surely go on to take a deserved place on millions of families\' video shelves as a reliable Saturday night staple.\" Kenneth Turan of the *Los Angeles Times* described the film as \"a good-humored, pleasant confection that has all kinds of relaxed fun bringing computer-animated savvy to the old-fashioned world of Looney Tunes cartoons.\" Paul Clinton of CNN wrote that the film was \"a delight\", and added: \"Co-writers and -directors McGrath and Eric Darnell, along with their entire team, have done a terrific job with their sweet and whimsical story.\"


# Madagascar (2005 film)
### Critical reception
Roger Ebert gave the film 2.5/4 stars, writing that it \"is funny, especially at the beginning, and good-looking in a retro cartoon way\", but added: \"in a world where the stakes have been raised by *Finding Nemo*, *Shrek* and *The Incredibles*, it\'s a throwback to a more conventional kind of animated entertainment.\" Philippa Hawker of *The Sydney Morning Herald* also gave the film 2.5/4 stars, writing: \"*Madagascar*, despite some break-out moments of silliness, seems defined by a formula that can\'t fail to please, at a basic level, but never feels imaginatively inspired.\" Rick Groen of *The Globe and Mail* gave the film 2/4 stars, describing the film\'s script as \"a wafer-thin yarn that might have done Sylvester and Tweety proud, but goes missing-in-action when stretched over 80-plus minutes.\" A. O. Scott of *The New York Times* wrote that the film \"arouses no sense of wonder, except insofar as you wonder, as you watch it, how so much talent, technical skill and money could add up to so little.\"

### Awards
The film has won three awards and several nominations.
`Award`
`Category`
`Recipient`
`Result`
`AFI's 10 Top 10`
`Animated Film`
*`Madagascar`*
`Annie Award`
`Best Animated Feature`
`Mireille Soria`
`Animated Effects`
`Matt Baer`
`Rick Glumac`
`Martin Usiak`
`Character Design in an Animated Feature Production`
`Craig Kellman`
`Music in an Animated Feature Production`
`Hans Zimmer`
`Production Design in an Animated Feature Production`
`Yoriko Ito`
`Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production`
`Tom McGrath`
`Catherine Yuh Rader`
`Golden Eagle Award`
`Best Foreign Language Film`
*`Madagascar`*
`Kids' Choice Awards`
`Favorite Animated Movie`
*`Madagascar`*
In 2008, the American Film Institute nominated the film for its Top 10 Animation Films list.


# Madagascar (2005 film)
### Awards
***Madagascar*** is the soundtrack to the 2005 DreamWorks film of the same name. It was released by Geffen Records on May 24, 2005. Of particular critical note was the cover of \"I Like to Move It\" by Sacha Baron Cohen, which has since become a recurring theme song throughout the *Madagascar* franchise.
The score was composed by frequent DreamWorks collaborator Hans Zimmer, with additional music by James Dooley, Heitor Pereira, James S. Levine, and Ryeland Allison. Zimmer also adapted John Barry\'s instrumental from \"Born Free\" into the score track of the same name; The Mormon Tabernacle Choir\'s cover of the song was used in the opening title sequence. Originally, Harry Gregson-Williams, another frequent DreamWorks collaborator, was supposed to compose the film\'s score.
A sequel, *Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa*, was released in 2008, followed by *Madagascar 3: Europe\'s Most Wanted* in 2012 and the spin-off film *Penguins of Madagascar* in 2014. The series has also spawned a number of television series, short films, video games, and other media, as well as theme park attractions and live stage shows.
The animated television series entitled *Madagascar: A Little Wild* was aired, streaming on Peacock in 2020.

### Spin-off series
A spin-off series entitled *The Penguins of Madagascar* premiered on Nickelodeon in 2008.
Another spin-off series entitled *All Hail King Julien* premiered on Netflix in 2014.


# Dreams (2006 film)
***Dreams*** ( (*Ahlaam*) ) is a 2006 Iraqi film directed by Mohamed Al-Daradji. It was Iraq\'s submission to the 79th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Mohamed Al-Daradji returned to Iraq shortly after the American invasion of Baghdad. There he found psychiatric patients wandering on the streets as the hospitals were being destroyed by the bombings. The experience served as the germ for what would be Mohamed\'s first feature film, Ahlaam, and the second Iraqi feature produced since the fall of Saddam Hussein. It was filmed on location in Baghdad in 2004. \"I would like to bring the subject very close to the audience with an artistic point of view\" he said.


# Dreams (2006 film)
During the time when Ahlaam was filmed was when the insurgency was most dangerous in Iraq. Al-Daradji and his crew took many risks while filming Ahlaam: Al-Daradji was captured twice and tortured by rival insurgents while his cast and crew came under fire from both militias and US troops. Al-Daradji commented \"As Iraqi filmmakers, we must stay in our own country and make our films, even with all the dangers\...We must show the Iraqi point of view. You don\'t know how important it is for us to tell our stories.\" Two years after Ahlaam\'s international premiere, it was shown in Mohammed\'s home country of Iraq at the Baghdad National Theatre. Despite 200 people being killed that day following a surge of attacks across Baghdad, 1,000 people made their way to the screening.
The film begins with a shot of Baghdad in 2003, two days before the fall of Saddam\'s regime. It is nighttime, and the city is ablaze with fire and smoke. Two of the main characters call out the names of their loved ones from within the psychiatric ward of a Baghdad hospital, against a backdrop of explosions and gunfire. The film then cuts to five years prior in Baghdad, 1998. The three main characters, Mehdi Ali Al-Lam, Ali Hussein Araheif, and Ahlaam Mohamed Al-Saadi, are in the midst of every-day life. Ahlaam is attending University, Mehdi is getting ready to take his exam for medical school, and Ali is working as a soldier in the Iraqi military. As the movie progresses each character is faced with a turning point in their lives. For Ali, his turning point is Operation Desert Fox. He is stationed with his best friend Hasan when they are hit by the American and British bombing of Iraq in December, 1998. Hasan sustains fatal injuries, and Ali attempts to carry him to a hospital. Ali crosses a border while carrying his friend and is picked up by a van and sent to the army jail. In the army jail, he is charged as a deserter and sentenced to have his ear cut off and to incarceration in a mental asylum. For Ahlaam, the turning point is her wedding day. She is getting ready to marry her betrothed, Ahmed, when he is arrested by Saddam\'s men. The next time she appears in the movie, she is a patient in the same mental asylum as Ali, calling out Ahmed\'s name and being treated with shock therapy. For Mehdi, the turning point is when he discovers he will have to join the military rather than become a doctor as planned because his father was a communist, and thus Mehdi does not have the proper connections to achieve his goal and avoid military service. After explaining how the three main characters all arrive to the psychiatric institution, the movie cuts back to Baghdad in 2003, back to the opening scene. After serving in the military for one year, Mehdi became a doctor. In 2003, he happens to be the new doctor at the mental asylum holding Ali and Ahlaam. Presently, the mental asylum is hit by a bomb. Many of the patients, including Ahlaam, escape into Baghdad. Dr. Mehdi enlists the help of Ali to round up the patients and bring them back. The film follows Ali, Ahlaam, and Mehdi as they wander around an empty Baghdad. Ali works to recover lost patients and help bring them to safety, while Ahlaam wanders confused and lost; she is taken advantage of by a man who she thinks is Ahmed. Ali is fatally shot as he is trying to help return patients. Ahlaam runs away into an abandoned building; as Mehdi and her family try to enter to find bring her back to safety, they are blocked by American forces who don\'t understand the situation and answer with force. The final shot of the film shows her standing on top of the building, looking at Baghdad.


# Dreams (2006 film)
- Aseel Adel - Ahlaam
- Bashir Al-Majid - Ali
- Mohamed Hashim - Mehdi
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- Cinema of Iraq
- List of submissions to the 79th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film


# War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave
***War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave*** is a 2008 direct-to-DVD science fiction film directed by and starring C. Thomas Howell. The film was produced and distributed independently by The Asylum.
The film is a sequel to the film *H. G. Wells\' War of the Worlds*, an adaptation of the 1898 H. G. Wells novel and mockbuster of the DreamWorks/Paramount adaptation of the same source. The film\'s tone and overall plot significantly differ from the first film and recycles elements from the novel.
The film is set two years after the initial alien invasion, following the remnants of the human race who launch an attack on the planet Mars to counter a second attack. C. Thomas Howell reprises his role as George Herbert.
George Herbert explains that despite years of searching for extraterrestrial life, mankind never expected the invasion which devastated human civilization into anarchy, and that the aliens were killed by a lack of immunity to the bacteria in the human blood they consumed. Two years later, a town is seen, populated with silent refugees including characters Shackleford and Sissy. Suddenly, three Tripods land in the city. People are struck by a Heat-Ray. Shackleford takes a sample of Sissy\'s blood, with which he injects himself.
In Washington, American society has not recovered from the invasion. George Herbert recognises a familiar disturbance on the radio, as the same heard during the first invasion and he reveals to Major Kramer and a team of scientists that his studies show that the aliens are creating a wormhole between Earth and Mars for another wave of attacks. A fleet of fighter jets, which appear to have deep-space flight capabilities, thereby raid the planet Mars. George returns home for his son Alex, only to find a Tripod outside his home, which abducts Alex. He escapes to an abandoned city and wakes the next morning to find a man named Pete running from a Tripod. George throws himself before the machine, and wakes inside the machine with Pete. Both escape with Sissy, while the Martians begin a second invasion, attacking London and Paris. Major Kramer leads the fleet of jets to chase the alien mothership back to Mars.


# War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave
George, Pete, and Sissy find themselves in the town from the start of the film; where Shackleford reveals that the town is created by the Tripods for humans captured by Tripods to live on Mars. Shackleford wants to destroy the aliens in the same way bacteria did them in during the first invasion. Shackleford and Sissy are dying of a virus lethal to the Tripods, and he convinces George to inject his infected blood into himself. George and Pete are kidnapped again and arrive inside the mothership, where they find Alex in a cocoon. There, George injects his infected blood into a pod holding a brain telepathically connected to all of the Tripods, and thus deactivates the invasion. George, Pete, and Alex escape just as the mothership explodes. George survives the infection, and the humans celebrate while listening to the radio, which undergoes some static interference, indicating a third invasion, and the characters spend a few moments in silence before the film ends.
- C. Thomas Howell as George Herbert (a play on H.G. Wells\' first two names, Herbert George)
- Christopher Reid as Peter Silverman
- Dashiell Howell as Alex Herbert
- Fred Griffith as Major Kramer
Blu-Ray.com gave the film 1.5 stars out of 5, finding that while it opens well, it quickly falls apart, becoming a jumbled mess.
*War of the Worlds 2* is notably different in tone to its predecessor. While *War of the Worlds* kept relatively faithful to the novel with a focus on realism and humanity rather than the aliens themselves, *War of the Worlds 2* features considerably more outlandish science-fiction elements, discarding the horror treatment of the first film for an action/adventure premise. The film\'s plot is mostly original, its characters entirely so, though it does feature elements from *The War of the Worlds* which were excluded from the first film.


# War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave
- Unlike the novel, humans are shown as having considerable effect and competence in the fight against the aliens. The character of the Artilleryman entertains the possibility of taking down and studying a fighting-machine and building new ones with human pilots to repel the invaders. Humans are seen using jets which have been upgraded with the aliens\' technology to fight against the invaders.
- The first film made effort to disguise the Martian heritage of the aliens (though director David Michael Latt confirmed that the aliens were indeed Martians). In *War of the Worlds 2*, it has become common-knowledge between events that the aliens originated from Mars - though instead of being launched straight from the planet like in the novel, their ships appear to be transported to near-earth space by a wormhole.
- In the novel, the Martians are seen abducting humans, carrying them and placing them in metal cages carried by the machines themselves. In *War of the Worlds 2*, the Tripods use a teleportation-gun to place their prisoners inside them.
The film\'s music was composed by Ralph Reickermann, a former composer for The Asylum. The film features the single \"*You Came into my Life*\" which featured the vocals of singer John Brown Reese.


# Jani Gal
***Jani Gal*** () is a 2007 Kurdish-language Kurdish drama film directed by Jamil Rostami, who co-wrote the screenplay with Khosro Sina and also served as the producer, based on Ibrahim Ahmad\'s best-selling 1972 novel of the same name. The film stars Nzar Salami, Renas Wrya, and Abdul Hamajwan. The story, set in 1940s to 1950s of Kurdistan, chronicles Jwamer after his release from prison and his search for his wife and son. It was Iraq\'s submission to the 80th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.
The story is set in 1950s Iraq and illustrates the plight of *Juamer* in a flashback structure. When Juamer\'s wife goes into labor, he runs to get the midwife but is caught in the midst of a clash between Kurdish protestors and Iraqi police. He is mistakenly arrested, tortured and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. After his release, Juamer sets out to find his loved ones but he discovers that his wife died, without medical help, on the same day that he was arrested, the Make up artists of the film were Radmehr Aalipour and Ali Hamedi.
`Year`
`Award`
`Category`
`Nominee`
`Result`
2008
`Boston Film Festival`
`Best International Filmmaker Award`
`Jamil Rostami`
`Moondance International Film Festival`
`Columbine Award`
*`Jani Gal`*
- Cinema of Iraq
- List of submissions to the 80th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film


# El Rey (film)
***El Rey*** is a 2004 Colombian-French-Spanish film directed by Antonio Dorado. It was Colombia\'s submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.
- Cinema of Colombia
- List of submissions to the 77th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film


# People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart
***People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart***, (), is a 1967 Danish/Swedish romantic comedy directed by Henning Carlsen and starring Harriet Andersson and Preben Neergaard. The film is based upon the 1944 novel by Jens August Schade.
`  Actor `
`Role`
Harriet Andersson
`   Sofia Persson`
Preben Neergaard
`   Sjalof Hansen`
Eva Dahlbeck
`   Devah Sørensen`
Erik Wedersøe
`   Hans Madsen`
Lone Rode
`   Evangeline Hansen`
Lotte Horne
`   Mithra`
Elin Reimer
`   Calcura`
Bent Christensen
`Ramon Salvador`
Lotte Tarp
`   Kose`
Knud Rex
`   Ramon Salvador`
Georg Rydeberg
`   Robert Clair de Lune`
Cassandra Mahon
`Josefa Swell`
Zito Kerras
`   Young Men in New York`
Ove Rud
`   Clergyman`
Benny Juhlin
`   Fresh Young Man`
*People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart* won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film in 1968, and for her leading role, the Swedish actress Andersson also received that year\'s Bodil Award for Best Actress. The film was also selected as the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 41st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
- List of submissions to the 41st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Danish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film


# Blessed by Fire
***Blessed by Fire*** () is a 2005 Argentine war drama film co-written and directed by Tristán Bauer. The film features Gastón Pauls, Pablo Ribba and Juan Leyrado. The story centers on the Falklands War and it is based on the homonymous book written by Edgardo Esteban, a veteran of the conflict.
The story centers on two young men who are sent to fight the 1982 war in the Falkland Islands and who return home bearing the brutal scars of war. Twenty years after the war\'s end, journalist Esteban Leguizamón is informed that Alberto Vargas, one of the men he served with, has attempted suicide after suffering from years of depression brought on by his experiences in the war. Esteban visits the comatose Vargas at the hospital, and in a series of extended flashbacks, revisits the scene of Argentina\'s \"unwinnable war.\"
The film depicts Esteban and fellow soldiers Vargas and Juan, who are living in foxholes on the remote, windswept Falklands, battling hunger, boredom, abuse, and the deprivations of war as they await the arrival of British forces. A series of harrowing battle scenes with British forces ensues, and the Argentines realise the futility and violence of their mission. They are cannon fodder, pawns in a futile political game.
Back in the present, Esteban returns to the Falklands to come to terms with himself and the past. The emotional final scenes were shot on location in the Falklands, for the first time in Argentine film. As Esteban looks over the still off-limits battlefields filled with mines, live ammunition, and rusting military equipment, the futility of war is abundantly clear.
- Gastón Pauls as Esteban Leguizamón
- Pablo Ribba as Alberto Vargas
- César Albarracín as Juan Chamorro
- Victor Hugo Carrizo as Pizarro
- Virginia Innocenti as Maria Vargas
- Juan Leyrado
- Arturo Bonín
The film was shown on the Australian TV channel SBS on March 17, 2009.
**Silver Condor**: Graciela Fraguglia, Alejandro Brodersohn, Tristán Bauer, Edgardo Esteban, Miguel Bonasso, Gustavo Romero Borri, Virginia Innocenti.


# Lise kommer til Byen
***Lise kommer til Byen*** is a 1947 Danish family film directed by Lau Lauritzen Jr. and Alice O\'Fredericks.
- Gerda Gilboe as Lise Olsen
- Poul Reichhardt as Instruktør Dan \'Basse\' Burling
- Lau Lauritzen Jr. as Filmdirektør Hans Berg
- Lisbeth Movin as Scriptgirlen Irma Hansen
- Lise Thomsen as Skuespiller Nanna Johansen
- Preben Mahrt as Skuespiller Karl
- Henning Ahrensborg as Skolelærer Nielsen
- Kjeld Petersen as Forsikringsagent Tage Sørensen
- Einar Juhl as Direktør Svendsen
- Marius Hansen as Krovært
- Ib Schønberg as Skuespiller Kristoffer \'Steff\' Steffensen
- Sven Gyldmark as Himself
- Mogens Dam as Himself
- Poul Bundgaard as Medlem af filmholdet (uncredited)
- Marie Ejlersen as Herself (uncredited)
- Johan Jacobsen as Himself (uncredited)
- Kjeld Jacobsen as Filmoperatør (uncredited)
- Henry Nielsen as Taxachauffør (uncredited)
- Ove Sprogøe as Filmoperatør (uncredited)


# Ghar Ka Chiraag
***Ghar Ka Chiraag**\'\' (transl.***House Lamp**\'\') is a 1989 Indian film in Hindi directed by Sikander Bharti. The film stars Rajesh Khanna, Neelam Kothari and Chunky Pandey in leading roles. The film was fourth highest grossing Hindi film at the box office in 1989. Actor Chunky Pandey himself distributed this film.
- Rajesh Khanna as Kumar
- Neelam Kothari as Kiran
- Chunky Pandey as Ravi
- Deepika Chikhalia as Asha
- Om Shivpuri


# Ghar Ka Chiraag
Kumar is a wealthy businessman and lives a comfortable lifestyle with his lovely wife, Asha, in a palatial house. The only thing missing from their lives is a son. When Asha gets pregnant, Kumar knows that all his dreams will be fulfilled and his business will be known as \"Kumar & Son\". Unfortunately, Asha has a miscarriage which results in her and her son\'s deaths. A devastated Kumar takes to alcohol and devotes his energy and finances to a school for needy children in scenic Mussoorie. It is here he meets the College Principal\'s daughter, Kiran, who he knows is in love with a fellow collegian, Ravi. When Ravi participates in the annual car rally, his vehicle is sabotaged and he is reportedly killed. But the College principal discovers that his daughter is pregnant with Ravi\'s child and when Kumar learns of this, he agrees to lend his own name to the unborn child. Kiran marries Kumar and they lead a happy married life, though Kumar never had physical relation with Kiran. A son is born and Kumar rears the child as his own, completely ignoring his duties towards his wife. Meanwhile, Ravi survives and with the help of his parents wants to return to Mussoorie. Before that could happen, Kiran\'s father tells them that Kiran is no more, throwing Ravi into a relapse. Months later Ravi does recover, but refuses to get married. Then five years later he finds out that there will be another car rally there and despite his parents\' objections, he travels to Mussoorie and this is where he learns that Kiran is still alive and even has a son, and her husband is none other than the wealthy widower - Kumar. Ravi must now find out why Kiran\'s father lied to him, and whether or not Kiran wanted to marry Kumar because of his wealth. Kumar\'s life is drastically changes once Ravi reenters their lives.
`# `
`Title `
`Singer(s)`
`1`
`"Tutak Tutak Tutiyan" (Female)`
**`Asha Bhosle`**
`2`
`"Tutak Tutak Tutiyan" (Male)`
`Amit Kumar`
`3`
`"Papa Mere Papa"`
`Mohammed Aziz, Sarika Kapoor`
`4`
`"Ye Qismat Hai Kya" (Happy)`


# Ghar Ka Chiraag
`Mohammed Aziz, Sapna Mukherjee, Amit Kumar`
`5`
`"Aye Kash Tum Kahdo Kabhi"`
`Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik`
`6`
`"Dil Lene Aaya Hoon"`
`Shabbir Kumar, Alisha Chinai`
`7`
`"Ye Qismat Hai Kya" (Sad)`
`Mohammed Aziz`
8
`"Aye Kash Tum Kahdo Kabhi" (Sad)`
`Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik`


# Chupacabra: Dark Seas
***Chupacabra: Dark Seas**\'\' (released on DVD as***Chupacabra Terror**\'\') is a 2005 Syfy channel original film directed by John Shepphird and starring John Rhys-Davies, Giancarlo Esposito, Dylan Neal, and Chelan Simmons. It was filmed on location in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Dr. Peña (Esposito), a cryptozoologist, manages to capture El Chupacabra on a remote Caribbean island and smuggles it aboard the cruise ship Regent Queen, commanded by Captain Randolph (Rhys-Davies) with the assistance of his young daughter, and ship fitness instructor, Jenny (Simmons). The Regent Queen has been experiencing a rash of burglaries, and Federal Marshal Lance Thompson (Neal) is brought on board to investigate.
Unfortunately, crew members sneak into the cargo hold on their break; their curiosity getting the better of them, they accidentally unlock the container holding the creature. It kills them and escapes into the ship. When bodies start turning up, all passengers are ordered back to their cabins. However, an old woman is trying to catch her Shih Tzu; she follows it into the casino, where she finds, to her horror, El Chupacabra devouring her dog. Seeing the woman a better meal, the beast attacks and eats her.
U.S. Navy Seals are called in to help stop the creature, but their efforts are hindered by Dr. Peña, who believes the creature\'s life is more valuable than the lives of those aboard. The Navy Seals are killed off one by one by the beast and Dr. Peña resorts to using Jenny as live bait to recapture El Chupacabra. However, he is foiled when the beast outsmarts and fatally wounds him. Jenny is saved by Lance and they meet up with her father, who has set the engines to explode as all the other passengers have been evacuated. They flee on a lifeboat moments before the ship blows up and sinks the ship, taking the beast with it. As the group watches the ship sink, Captain Randolph tells Jenny and Lance that he has decided to retire and write his memoirs.


# Chupacabra: Dark Seas
- John Rhys-Davies as Captain Randolph
- Dylan Neal as Lance Thompson
- Chelan Simmons as Jenny Randolph
- Giancarlo Esposito as Dr. Peña
- Paula Shaw as Millie Hartman
- David Millbern as Rick McGraw
- Luke Darnell as Ensign Peters
- Mark Viniello as El Chupacabra
The film was released on DVD by Columbia TriStar on May 3, 2005. It was later released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on July 3, 2016.
*Chupacabra: Dark Seas* received mostly negative reviews upon its release, with many critics criticizing the film\'s acting, dialogue, and clichéd script.
*TV Guide* panned the film, awarding it 1/4 stars criticizing the film\'s reliance on cheap thrills and parodistic laughs stating, \"though the gore may satisfy die-hard monster mashers, but the cheesy-looking creature isn't fit to touch the gills of the Creature from the Black Lagoon\". Andrew Smith from *Popcorn Pictures* awarded the film a score of 3/10, writing, \"Chupacabra: Dark Seas contains some alright moments but it's not nearly enough to have to sit through yet another bargain basement creature feature from the Sci-Fi Channel. With an appalling script which goes through the motions from the opening scene right up until the end credits, even the decent make-up effects can't save this mess.\" David Nusair from *ReelFilm Reviews* gave the film 2/4 stars, calling it \"a mildly entertaining horror flick\". In his review, Nusair criticized the film\'s dialogue, and clichéd story.
Scott Weinberg from DVD Talk called the film \"hilarious\" writing, \"Every conceivable component of the movie - the comically amateurish acting performances, the head-slappingly stupid screenplay, the dry-as-paint directorial approach, the gore-soaked \"guy in a rubber suit\" monster, the goofball CGI cruise ship used in the various establishing shots---just screams of accidental entertainment.\"


# How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?
***How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?**\'\' ( (also: ) and also known as***The Naughty Cheerleader**\'\') is a 1970 West German comedy film directed by Will Tremper and starring Barbi Benton. It is based on the novel of the same title, written by Lynn Keefe.
- Barbi Benton as Lynn Keefe (as Barbara Benton)
- Hampton Fancher as Gino
- Jeff Cooper as Bob Greene
- Broderick Crawford as B.J Hankins
- Marc De Vries as Ronnie
- Claude Farell as Mrs. Epstein
- Hugh Hefner as Himself
- Klaus Kinski as Juan José Ignatio Rodriguez de Calderon, \'Sam\'
- Lisa Lesco
- Bruce Low as Ist Smirna brother
- Paul Muller as The Director
- Roman Murray as Frank
- Max Nosseck as 2nd Smirna brother
- Massimo Serato as Capitano
- Lionel Stander as The Admiral
- Clyde Ventura as Nick
- José Luis de Vilallonga as Mr. Epstein
- Horst Wendlandt as Reporter with cigar behind the hotel in Miami Beach (uncredited)
- Christian Anders (minor role)


# Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth
The first film ever shot in Cardoscope
***Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth*** is a 2008 science-fiction/comedy film directed by Simon DaVision, starring James Vaughan, Tamsin Greig, Mark Heap and Richard Leaf. The film parodies classic B-movies through its deliberately nonsensical, superfluous storyline, poor production values, laughable dialogue and weak, inconsistent performances.
The film was shot in London over a period of four weeks, with contributions from several CGI artists. In accordance with the production\'s knowing satire of cheesy sci-fi, the credits for *Captain Eager* claim that it was filmed using \"Card-o-Scope\", and that CGI stands for \"Cardboard and Gum Imagery\".
Square-jawed hero Captain Eager is assigned the task of spying on Colonel Regamun, who has taken over the Veritan Sectot using a mysterious device known only as the \"Mark of Voth\".
Accompanied by his friends Professor Moon, Nurse Boobalicious, Scamp the Rocket Dog, Scrutty and Jenny, Eager must face down Regamun while also battling various alien monsters from his past adventures.
The film polarised critics; while some appreciated the surreal tone and knowing satire, others were left infuriated by the deliberately idiotic storyline and claimed it was a one-joke movie.


# Alien Raiders
***Alien Raiders*** is a 2008 American science fiction horror film, starring Carlos Bernard, Rockmond Dunbar and Mathew St. Patrick. The film is Ben Rock\'s first feature film as a director. The film was produced by Daniel Myrick, John Shiban, and Tony Krantz, and was released by Warner Home Video and Raw Feed in September 2008.
Just as the local grocery store is about to close, a group of six armed, masked people enter the building. They take the staff and remaining customers hostage and immediately shoot down one of the employees. One of the masked men named Spooky is then told to check whether \"he\" is among the hostages. When he identifies a woman as one of \"them\", she tries to escape but is shot down. Meanwhile, a police officer, who was also inside the store, manages to kill one of the masked men. He then calls for back-up and shoots Spooky, who hasn\'t managed to check all hostages yet. The cop is then killed too.
As the police arrive, the group argues whether or not to leave, but their leader, a man named Ritter, tells them that they need to finish their job. They release the hostages Spooky already managed to clear and move the rest to the back of the store. As they inspect one of the corpses, it becomes clear that the person was infected with an organism that breeds inside the person. With Spooky dead, the group resorts to a different method for checking whether the rest of the people are infected or not. One by one, the hostages are taken to another room and have one of their fingers cut off, which Sterling, the doctor of the group, uses to verify if they are infected or not.
Outside the store a policeman named Seth, whose stepdaughter Whitney works as a cashier at the store, takes charge of the police operation. They discover that Ritter used to work as a rocket scientist and that the group hunts people that are infected with an alien parasite that came to Earth inside a meteorite, which the cops don\'t believe. Trying to negotiate with Ritter, they come to the agreement that Ritter will release one of the hostages if the police bring them a woman named Charlotte, who used to be part of the group and possesses the same ability as Spooky did.


# Alien Raiders
The group inside discovers another woman is infected and kill her. They are then attacked by the revived body of the cop, who manages to kill two of the captors and three of the hostages. Ritter then explains to the remaining hostages what they were after: The parasites are divided in two groups, several females and one king. Without the king, the parasites would eventually go extinct. They knew that one of the persons inside the store was the host of the king, which is why they took the whole store hostage.
Seth and Charlotte then come inside. With Charlotte\'s help, the group lures the infected cop into a trap, while Seth leads his stepdaughter and the store clerk named Benny, who volunteered to have his finger cut off to spare Whitney the ordeal, outside. Ritter manages to cut the living parasite out of the cop, but is subsequently gunned down by the police who try to kill it.
Just as Sterling is arrested by Seth, Charlotte realizes that the killed parasite was not the king. Inside a police car, Benny overhears Seth calling the other cops, telling them that Benny must be the king. Benny realizes that it must actually be Whitney, since she was the only one who is still alive and wasn\'t checked by the captors. As he aims a gun at her, her eyes and veins change to a darker color and the screen fades to black, while Benny is heard screaming.
The film holds a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on six reviews with an average score of 7.21/10. Critics highlighted the unexpectedly high quality effects and acting, which exceeded expectations of a low-budget horror film. The bulk of criticism was aimed at the film\'s title, which Steve Barton of Dread Central dubbed \"ridiculous\" while praising the film itself as worthy of a theatrical release.


# The Objective
***The Objective*** is a 2008 science fiction horror film directed by Daniel Myrick, and co-written by Myrick, Mark A. Patton, and Wesley Clark Jr. The film stars Jonas Ball, Matthew R. Anderson, and Michael C. Williams. The plot revolves around CIA Agent Benjamin Keynes recalling the time when he led a Special Forces team through the mountains of Afghanistan in search of an Afghan cleric, only to encounter strange paranormal incidents.
It premiered in Morocco in April 2008 and in the United States in February 2009.
In Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, a U.S. Army Special Forces team consisting of team leader Chief Warrant Officer Wally Hamer, Master-Sergeant Kenny Tanner, and Sergeants Vince Degetau, Joe Trinoski, Tim Cole, and Pete Sadler meets CIA Agent Benjamin Keynes, who indicates that their mission is to find a very important Afghan cleric by the name of Mohammed Aban. Hamer, briefs the men to be ready. After being inserted, the team finds a local guide, Abdul, in a village in Southern Afghanistan, where Aban is from. Together, they go to the mountains, where the cleric has a reputation for hiding.


# The Objective
As they go further into the mountains, they begin to have strange encounters. First, they are ambushed by gunmen who kill Trinoski. The team returns fire, killing multiple gunmen, but when they check the bodies, they have disappeared. That night, the team spots headlights of a vehicle approaching. However, the two lights separate and then speedily fly into the sky and disappear. After speculating on what the lights may have been, they radio for a helicopter to resupply them. The next day, they cannot get reception on their radio or GPS. Their truck, damaged from the ambush, is struggling to move up the mountain. At night, the team hears a helicopter approaching, though they cannot spot it. As their radio is not working, they attempt to signal the helicopter. As the helicopter, still unseen, seems to be directly on top of them, the noise abruptly stops (something that shouldn\'t be physically possible). Meanwhile, the radio picks up what sounds like Persian or Arabic, but no one can understand it. They cache Trinoski\'s body so that they can move to a safer position for the night. The next morning, the team finds parts of Trinoski\'s body strewn out across rocks. Further up the mountain, they spot strange, triangular markers made of sticks across the mountain\'s surface. As they continue on foot with their mission in the rocky and barren landscape, fatigue, frustration and confusion take their toll on the members of the team and they come across a cave. Inside, they find an old man who gives them shelter and refills their canteens. Sergeant Sadler notices that under the man\'s robes, he appears to be wearing a nineteenth-century British army uniform. Sadler tells the others of a legend of how a British regiment disappeared in Afghanistan\'s mountains, leaving only one survivor. In the morning Sergeant Cole observes the old man apparently talking to himself, but when Cole looks through his night vision goggles, he sees a group of men with swords in black robes. Panicking, the soldier opens fire, accidentally killing the old man. Abdul says they must bury the body, but Keynes orders the team to move on in case the enemy heard them. Degeteau develops horrible stomach pains. As he tries to drink from a canteen, he finds that it is filled with sand, as are the containers of everyone else. Further on, Abdul is surprised to find that there is an entire valley that wasn\'t there previously. Tensions further increase when the team encounters a bright light at night. As Tanner and Cole try to flank the light, believing it to be a ruse by the Taliban, they\'re immediately vaporized. The next morning, Abdul warns Keynes that they are dealing with a supernatural phenomenon that is beyond human conception and has deadly consequences; he then commits suicide by stepping off a cliff.


# The Objective
As the team progresses further and tensions among the men increase, the remaining soldiers confront Keynes and demand the truth. Keynes shows them a recording from his thermal imaging camera and informs them about the real motive. The thermal video shows a triangular object in the desert. Being nearly invisible to the naked eye, it lifts off the ground after three (supposed) men, including Mohammed Aban, walk to it and vanishes right in front of Keynes\' eyes. It was this object that killed the men. The CIA has been monitoring this phenomenon since 1980 and sent Keynes and the special forces team there to further investigate it. The whole time, Keynes has been recording with his special thermal camera and sending the images to Langley via an advanced laser aimed at CIA satellites. Keynes theorizes that this object originates from an ancient Indian mythology called \'Vimanas\', a sort of UFO-related phenomenon that occurred when Alexander the Great rode through this area of land as he was conquering, and the bright lights and the ghostly gunmen are associated with it. He also explains that the team is an \'expendable\' for the investigation and they will not be rescued, which causes a brief scuffle with the agitated team leader, who disappears the next morning.


# The Objective
Running out of ammunition, water and food, the team wanders further into the desert where they finally encounter the vimanas at what appears to be the location that the British regiment was destroyed. Sadler, overwhelmed with fear, opens fire upon the seemingly invisible vimanas only to be vaporized. Keynes flees with Degetau and abandons him later, as he is too sick to continue, and later hears his screams before being obliterated by the objects. Exhausted and traumatized, Keynes searches for water. He encounters an oasis and drinks water from it only to discover the body of Hamer laying next to the water. Unable to grasp the horror, he passes out. When he wakes up in the night, he hears the distant sound of a helicopter and fires his flare gun. Simultaneously, several flares fire up from the valley. The bright light he encountered earlier re-appears and two beings from it approach him. As it touches his forehead, he sees visions and hallucinations of various objects and landscapes from his previous encounters, causing him to go into a trance. In the final scene he is shown floating several inches above a bed with a talisman he took from Aban\'s home in his hand, inside a hospital room, where doctors and a military colonel are watching him through a glass window. In a trance, he finally whispers, \"It will save us all\...\"
In the final credits, interviews of Keynes\' wife are shown in which she says that the family has not yet been informed about him and concludes him to be missing.
- Jonas Ball as CIA Agent Benjamin Keynes
- Matthew R. Anderson as Chief Warrant Officer Wally Hamer, 180A SF Warrant Officer
- Jon Huertas as Sergeant Vincent Degetau, 18D SF Medical Sgt.
- Michael C. Williams as Sergeant Joe Trinoski, 18C SF Demolitions/Engineering Sgt.
- Sam Hunter as Sergeant Tim Cole, 18E SF Communications Sgt.
- Jeff Prewett as Sergeant Pete Sadler, 18B SF Weapons Sgt./Sniper
- Kenny Taylor as Master Sergeant Kenny Tanner, 18Z/18F Senior Team Sgt. / Intelligence Sgt.
- Chems-Eddine Zinoune as Abdul
- P. David Miller as Major Matt McCarthy, 18A SF Officer
- Vanessa Johansson as Stacy Keanes
- Jacqueline Harris as Matilde Seymour
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 33% based on reviews from 12 critics.


# Clash of Loyalties
***Clash of Loyalties**\'\' (, aka***The Great Question**\'\') is a 1983 Iraqi film focusing on the formation of Iraq out of Mesopotamia in the aftermath of the First World War.
The film was financed by Saddam Hussein, filmed in Iraq (mainly at the Baghdad Film Studios in Baghdad\'s Mansour neighbourhood and on location at the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands, Babylon and Kut) at the height of the Iran--Iraq War and starred Oliver Reed as Gerard Leachman, Marc Sinden as Captain Dawson and Helen Ryan as Gertrude Bell, with score by Ron Goodwin.
Investigative journalist James Montague, writing in the July 2014 issue of *Esquire* magazine, claimed that Marc Sinden spied for the British Government\'s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during the filming of *Clash of Loyalties* in Iraq, after being made \"an offer he couldn't refuse, appealing to his duty and his pride in Queen and Country.\" In the article Sinden admitted that it was true.
It is known for being the last film made to use the now banned \"Running W\" technique, invented by famed stuntman Yakima (Yak) Canutt, which was a method of bringing down a horse at the gallop by attaching a wire, anchored to the ground, to its fetlocks and so launching the rider forwards spectacularly at a designated point. It invariably killed the horse, or at best it was unrideable afterwards. The British stuntman Ken Buckle (who had been trained by Yak) performed the highly-dangerous stunt three times during the huge cavalry charge sequence.
Both Arab and English versions of the film were produced.
The film was nominated for the Golden Prize at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival in 1983. It was screened at the 1984 London Film Festival, but was not otherwise shown theatrically in the United Kingdom.


# Clash of Loyalties
- Yousef al-Any as Blind Leader
- Ghazi al-Takriti as Dhari al-Mahmood
- Bernard Archard as Sir Percy Cox
- John Barron as General Haldane
- James Bolam as A. T. Wilson
- Helen Cherry as Lady Cox
- Barrie Cookson as Colonel Hardcastle
- Sami Abdul Hameed as Nationalist Leader (as Sami Abdul Hamid)
- Oliver Reed as Colonel Leachman
- Helen Ryan as Gertrude Bell
- Marc Sinden as Captain Dawson
- Michael Hordern as the Narrator


# The Girls Are Willing
***The Girls Are Willing*** () is a 1958 Danish comedy film directed by Gabriel Axel. It was chosen as Denmark\'s official submission to the 31st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination. It was also entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival.
*Guld og grønne skove* was only Gabriel Axel\'s third feature film as a director, and from it came out in 1958, it took exactly 30 years before in 1988 he won his Academy Award for \'\'Babette\'s Feast.
The two small islands, Hvenø and Birkø, have been in a decade-long conflict, and it therefore creates big problems when three young men from one island falls in love with three beautiful, young girls from the neighbouring island. Nothing could be more unlikely than a marriage between the islands - let alone three! But one day oil is found on the first island - causing a veritable invasion of the US oil company, American Super Oil Company. And then the whole little sleepy community is turned completely upside down \...
- Axel Bang - Sognerådsformand Kristian Kristiansen
- Henny Lindorff Buckhøj - Martha
- Verner Tholsgaard - Theo
- Ole Larsen - Postmester Lars Peter
- Else-Marie - Thyra
- Mogens Viggo Petersen - Ole
- Valsø Holm - Købmand Anton
- Cay Kristiansen - Hans
- Anna Henriques-Nielsen - Jensine
- Vilhelm Henriques - Organist Mattis
- Einar Reim - Pastor Breining
- Keld Markuslund - Skolelærer
- Karl Stegger - Sognefoged Søren
- Hanne Winther-Jørgensen - Rigmor
- Judy Gringer - Anna
- List of submissions to the 31st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film


# The One and Only (1999 film)
***The One and Only*** () is a 1999 Danish romantic comedy film directed by Susanne Bier. The film starred Sidse Babett Knudsen, Niels Olsen, Rafael Edholm, and Paprika Steen in story about two unfaithful married couples faced with becoming first-time parents. The film was considered to mark a modern transition in Danish romantic comedies, and became the third biggest box-office success of the 1990s in Denmark. The film earned both the Robert Award and Bodil Award as the Best Film of 1999.
- Sidse Babett Knudsen as Sus
- Niels Olsen as Niller
- Paprika Steen as Stella
- as Lizzie
- Sofie Gråbøl as Mulle
- as Knud
- Rafael Edholm as Andrea aka Sonny
- Hella Joof as the adoption lady
- Liv Corfixen as beauty clinic customer
- Charlotte Munck as beauty clinic customer
- Klaus Bondam as Priest
- Lars Kjeldgaard as one of the couples with new kitchen
- as one of the couples with new kitchen
- Vanessa Gouri as Mgala
- as the Doctor
- Beauty clinic chief
The film was the most successful Danish film for 15 years with admissions of 820,000 and a gross of 38.5 million Krone (\$5.5 million) in Denmark.


# Last Exit to Brooklyn (film)
***Last Exit to Brooklyn*** is a 1989 German-British-American drama film directed by Uli Edel and adapted by Desmond Nakano from Hubert Selby Jr.\'s 1964 novel of the same title.
The difficult lives of unionized workers, prostitutes, and drag queens in a working class Brooklyn neighborhood are portrayed, including drugs, crime and violence.
- Stephen Lang as Harry Black
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Tralala
- Burt Young as Big Joe
- Peter Dobson as Vinnie
- Jerry Orbach as Boyce
- Stephen Baldwin as Sal
- Jason Andrews as Tony
- James Lorinz as Freddy
- Sam Rockwell as Al
- Maia Danziger as Mary Black
- Camille Saviola as Ella
- Ricki Lake as Donna
- Cameron Johann as Spook
- John Costelloe as Tommy
- Christopher Murney as Paulie
- Alexis Arquette as Georgette
- Mark Boone Junior as Willie
- Rutanya Alda as Georgette\'s mother
There had been several attempts to adapt *Last Exit to Brooklyn* into a film prior to this version. One of the earliest attempts was made by producer Steve Krantz and animator Ralph Bakshi, who wanted to direct a live-action film based on the novel. Bakshi had sought out the rights to the novel after completing *Heavy Traffic*, a film which shared many themes with Selby\'s novel. Selby agreed to the adaptation, and actor Robert De Niro accepted the role of Harry in *Strike*. According to Bakshi, \"the whole thing fell apart when Krantz and I had a falling out over past business. It was a disappointment to me and Selby. Selby and I tried a few other screenplays after that on other subjects, but I could not shake *Last Exit* from my mind.\"
Some scenes for the film were shot at Montero\'s Bar and Grill, which was owned by Pilar Montero and her husband.
The film received positive reviews, garnering a 74% rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes from 19 critics, and winning a few critics\' awards for Leigh\'s portrayal of Tralala, though its limited distribution and downbeat subject matter prevented it from becoming a commercial success.
- *Last Exit to Brooklyn* (soundtrack)


# The Swimsuit Issue
***The Swimsuit Issue*** (; ) is a 2008 Swedish film directed by Måns Herngren.
Fredrik discovers synchronised swimming and recruits some friends to compete in an international competition for men.
- Jonas Inde as Fredrik
- Amanda Davin as Sara
- Andreas Rothlin-Svensson as Charles
- Jimmy Lindström as Larry
- Peter Gardiner as Victor
- Benny Haag as Peter
- Shebly Niavarani as Börje
- Kalle Westerdahl as Markus
- Maria Langhammer as Lillemor


# Summer Love (2006 film)
***Summer Love**\'\' also known as***Dead Man\'s Bounty**\'\', is a 2006 Western film written and directed by Piotr Uklański and starring Bogusław Linda, Karel Roden, and Val Kilmer. The plot involves a desert countryside with a group of rowdy cowboys, a woman bar tender and a drunkard Sheriff.
A peaceful village suddenly turns violent when a certain stranger walks into a bar with the poster of a wanted man. He enters into a scuffle with other cowboys. He manages to escape from the clutches of the locals and then is chased by them.
- Summer Love at IMD
- Film Card


# Tanu Weds Manu
***Tanu Weds Manu*** is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy-drama by Aanand L. Rai, and produced by Shailesh R Singh. It stars R. Madhavan, Kangana Ranaut, Jimmy Sheirgill, Eijaz Khan, Swara Bhaskar and Deepak Dobriyal. The story of the film has been written by Himanshu Sharma, music is directed by Krsna Solo and the lyrics penned by Rajshekhar. The film was released on 25 February 2011. Upon release, the film was commercially successful, particularly in Delhi, UP and Punjab. It was dubbed in German and released under the title *Tanu Und Manu Trauen Sich*. The film was remade in Telugu as *Mr. Pellikoduku*. A sequel, titled *Tanu Weds Manu: Returns* was released on 22 May 2015.
Manoj Kumar Sharma alias Manu (Madhavan) is an NRI doctor living in London. He comes to India to find an Indian bride and get married. His parents have already short-listed some girls for him to meet, and they, along with his friend Pappi (Deepak Dobriyal) take him to Kanpur to meet Tanuja Trivedi alias Tanu (Kangana Ranaut). After they land in Kanpur, a bunch of goons grab Manu from the rail station and give him a few slaps, but when Pappi finds Manu he tells him to let it go. At Tanu\'s house, the two sets of parents find that they get on extremely well with each other, and decide that if Manu likes Tanu, they can finalize the matter immediately. There is one minor hitch: Tanu\'s mother tells her guests that Tanu has been ill since yesterday and is unable to rise from bed. She asks Manu to go up to Tanu\'s bedroom and meet her there. She shows Manu to Tanu\'s room and goes away to the kitchen. Tanu is very unresponsive, and Manu initially thinks that she is shy and bashful. He soon realizes that Tanu is in fact fast asleep. He gazes upon her beautiful sleeping figure, and promptly becomes enamored. He comes downstairs and tells both the families that he is willing to marry her.