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Official Selection 6: PARENTS JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND
Growing up is hard to do, but this year's crop of little angels, teenaged hoodlums, wolf pups and Jedi Knights make the growing pains all worthwhile.
| Dick Cheney In A Cold, Dark Cell |
| River ice sets the scene for a play between freedom and collapse. Children happily skate in circles, treacherously close to danger in this experimental allegory of US politics. |
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| Old Fangs |
| A young wolf decides to confront his father, whom he has not seen since he was a pup. Beautiful animation brings a story of buried family secrets to life. |
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| Opening Up (M'ouvrir) |
| Teenaged Gabrielle seems to be doing well in school and in the social scene, but her father suspects her secret release is out of control again. |
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| At Home with the Jedi |
| Brothers Dan and Barney are founders of the International Church of Jediism, which - due to unprecedented media coverage - is already suffering a schism: older brother Barney isn't feeling the force in quite the same way as Dan. A comical documentary on the power of pop culture. |
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| Monsters Down the Hall |
| Little Michael knows two things: something's not right with mommy and never, ever go inside apartment 18E down the hall. Step inside a child's imagination as it struggles against adult demons. |
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| I.D. |
| Saved by the filmmaker over the years, a series of photo booth self-portraits shows us that although fashions and hairstyles come and go, the person stays the same. |
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| The Lesson |
| A mother, a drug-addicted son, and a daughter caught in the middle make for a very complicated Christmas holiday. A fascinating family drama starring a most unlikely villain. |
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| Careful With That Crossbow |
| In this year's installment of the hilarious CAREFULL WITH series, we find our trusty youngster armed with a crossbow and playing a game of "William Tell" with his sister. Naturally, things go ridiculously awry - just don't blink! |
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| A Gentle Push (Een Kleine Duw) |
| A calamity of events collide in one afternoon for little Robbie: the last day of school, Belgium's World Cup qualifying match, and a whale beached on the town's shore. As all three head towards a climax, an unexpected twist changes his world forever. |
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