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American Film Festival
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October 07-14
Formula Kino Evropa 
American Film Festival in Moscow was initiated in 2006 by a group of Americans and Russians in order to showcase new and classic American films, which otherwise would not be widely distributed in Russia. American Film Festival aims to give a more complete idea of America's cinema images then the one performed by a standard set of blockbusters being shown at the Moscow multiplexes. It is the forth American Film Festival in Moscow. For the past three years the festival has turned into the major and one of the most popular festivals of national films in Russia. American Film Festival 2009 consists of thee parts: Premieres, Indie Films and Documentary. Despite Russian audience shows great interest in contemporary American cinema, most films either got a limited distribution or got no distribution at all. And that mean American Film Festival is the only opportunity to see those films in Russia. The festival programme features films by famous and critically acclaimed directors ("The Girlfriend Experience" by Steven Soderbergh, "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" by Rebecca Miller, "(500) Days of Summer" by Mark Webb), the Oscar-nominated film about "Catherine" hurricane "Trouble the Water", the Emmy-awarded film "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" as well as new works by promising filmmakers. The festival opens with an absolute hit "New York, I Love You" – a collection of short films shot by several directors – and closes with Nora Ephron's film "Julie & Julia" starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and Stanley Tucci. Guests of the festival are directors of new documentary independent films.
Festival Films
Indie Films
 Asylum Seekers Comedy/Fantasy. Directed by Rania Ajami. Starring: Pepper Binkley, Bill Dawes, Judith Hawking, Daniel Irizarry, Stella Maeve. 90 min, 2009.
Make-out with Violence Comedy/Fantasy/Horror/Romance. Directed by Deagol Brothers. Starring: Eric Lehning, Cody DeVos, Leah High, Brett Miller, Tia Shearer. 105 min, 2008.
Stingray Sam Comedy/Musical/Sci-Fi/Western. Directed by Cory McAbee. Starring: Cory McAbee, David Hyde Pierce, Ron Crawford, Jessica Jelliffe. 61 min, 2009.
Mercy Drama/Romance. Directed by Patrick Hoelck. Starring: Scott Caan, Wendy Glenn, James Caan, Erika Christensen, Dorian Brown. 87 min, 2009.
Humpday Comedy. Directed by Lynn Shelton. Starring: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore, Lynn Shelton, Trina Willard. 94 min, 2009.
Dare Drama. Directed by Adam Salky. Starring: Emmy Rossum, Alan Cumming, Ashley Springer, Zach Gilford, Ana Gasteyer, Rooney Mara. 100 min, 2009.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Directed by John Krasinski. Starring: Julianne Nicholson, Timothy Hutton, John Krasinski, Christopher Meloni, Ben Shenkman. 80 min, 2009.
Premieres
 ExTerminators Comedy/Drama. Directed by John Inwood. Starring: Heather Graham, Jennifer Coolidge, Matthew Settle, Amber Heard, Joey Lauren Adams. 92 min, 2009.
The Girlfriend Experience Drama. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring: Sasha Grey, Chris Santos, T. Colby Trane, Peter Zizzo, Ron Stein. 78 min, 2009.
The Informers Crime/Drama/Thriller. Directed by Gregor Jordan. Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Winona Ryder, Amber Heard. 98 min, 2009.
New York, I Love You Drama/Romance. Directed by Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Wen Jiang, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner, Randall Balsmeyer. Starring: Bradley Cooper, Robin Wright Penn, Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Justin Bartha, Christina Ricci, John Hurt, Ethan Hawke, Andy Garcia. 110 min, 2009).
Lymelife Directed by Derick Martini. Starring: Alec Baldwin, Kieran Culkin, Rory Culkin, Jill Hennessy, Timothy Hutton, Cynthia Nixon. 95 min, 2008.
Shrink Drama. Directed by Jonas Pate. Starring: Kevin Spacey, Mark Webber, Keke Palmer, Saffron Burrows, Jack Huston. 110 min, 2009.
 The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Drama. Directed by Rebecca Miller. Starring: Robin Wright Penn, Keanu Reeves, Mike Binder, Alan Arkin, Winona Ryder, Ryan McDonald. 93 min, 2009.
Dark Streets Drama/Thriller/ Directed by Rachel Samuels. Starring: Gabriel Mann, Bijou Phillips, Izabella Miko, Elias Koteas, Jarreth J. Merz, Michael Fairman, Toledo Diamond. 83 min, 2008.
(500) Days of Summer Comedy/Drama/Romance. Directed by Mark Webb. Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend, Chloe Moretz, Matthew Gray Gubler, Clark Gregg. 95 min, 2009.
Julie & Julia Biography/Comedy/Drama/Romance. Directed by Nora Ephron. Starring: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, Linda Emond, Jane Lynch. 123 min, 2009.
Documentary
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired Directed by Marina Zenovich. 99 min, 2008.
Trouble the Water Directed by Carl Deal, Tia Lessin. 90 min, 2008.
Racing Dreams Directed by Marshall Curry. 93 min, 2009.
October Country Directed by Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher. 80 min, 2009.
Festival Schedule:
October 07, Wednesday
Opening of the festival
October 08, Thursday
20:00 The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
20:30 Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
22:00 The Informers
October 09, Friday
19:30 Trouble the Water
20:00 New York, I Love You
21:00 Asylum Seekers
21:30 Mercy
October 10, Saturday
15:00 Stingray Sam
16:30 Dare
17:00 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
18:00 Make-Out with Violence
18:40 Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
19:00 Shrink
20:00 Asylum Seekers
21:00 October Country
21:20 Humpday
October 11, Sunday
15:00 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
15:30 Mercy
17:00 ExTerminators
17:30 Trouble the Water
19:00 Stingray Sam
19:30 Racing Dreams
21:00 Humpday
21:30 Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
October 12, Monday
19:30 October Country
20:00 Lymelife
21:45 Make-Out with Violence
21:30 Dare
October 13, Tuesday
20:00 (500) Days of Summer
20:15 Racing Dreams
22:00 The Girlfriend Experience
October 14, Wednesday
19:30 Julie & Julia
22:00 Dark Streets
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