2010 Festival Film List

We are hard at work scheduling an amazing line up of films, events, and shorts for this year's festival.

Need an idea of what kind of films lineup we have at Riverside Saginaw Film Festival – Check out this list from last year's festival:

Moon
A lone human (Sam Rockwell) engaged in a three-year mission managing solar energy collection on the moon faces a powerful and dangerous dilemma in the final weeks of his stay. Played Sundance Film Festival, winner at Edinburgh and Seattle International Film Festivals.
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Lemon Tree
Based on a real-life incident. When the Israeli Defense Minister moves to the border between Israel and the West Bank a security issue battle ensues over a Palestinian widow’s adjacent lemon tree farm leading to an unlikely friendship between the widow and the defense minister’s wife. Winner at Berlin Film Festival.
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Sita Sings the Blues
In this animation film, three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both an ancient tragedy about a goddess separated from her beloved husband and a modern comedy about an animator whose husband dumps her by e-mail. The action is set to 1920’s jazz vocals. Winner at Berlin and Denver International Film Festivals.
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Paris 36
On the eve of 1936, a nefarious thug forces one of Paris' most lively little vaudeville theaters to close. But a long-time stage hand rallies his colleagues to restore their theater to its original glory.
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Girl From Monaco
A brilliant but neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal and once there falls for a she-devil who turns him into a total wreck.
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Sin Nombre
The lives of three young people intersect and align when they meet on the roof of a freight train hurtling north in a border-crossing thriller/drama. Winner at Sundance Film Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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Goodbye Solo
Solo, a kind and gentle Senegalese immigrant cab driver living in Winston-Salem, N.C., strives to revitalize a despondent elderly passenger’s dreams in order to keep him alive. Winner at Venice Film Festival.
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Sugar
A Dominican baseball pitcher struggles to make it to the American big leagues so he can pull himself and his family out of poverty. At age 19, he gets his big break. Played Sundance Film Festival.
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Summer Hours
Two brothers and a sister (Juliette Binoche) witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they relinquish the family heirlooms and other belongings after their mother's death.
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Paper Covers Rock
A suicidal young woman who has lost custody of her 6-year-old daughter moves in with her older sister to get her life back together. But the sister may not be the best remedy, Winner at Ashland Independent Film Festival.
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Locked Away
Saginawian Timothy Rooney produced this film and will attend its showing. In it, Michael Turner returns from the Iraq war to his small home town, a relieved family ... and a legion of the undead. Protecting the townspeople from the zombies and fighting his own inner demons follow.
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Dinner at 8
Actress Marie Dressler, who spent some of her formative years in Saginaw, is among the all-star cast in a George Cukor comedy rated by the American Film Institute as among the top 100 movie comedies of all time. Set in the Great Depression, it deals with the loss of money and prestige amid assorted kinds of relationships. Also starring are John Barrymore, Jean Harlow, Billie Burke, Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore.
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Raised Alone
Saginawian Jerry Seward is the associate producer of this short subject filmed in Michigan and directed by Sam Kadi. Kadi and other crew members will attend and talk about Michigan's developing film industry. An obsessive workaholic father who neglected his son in order to ensure his family’s financial security seeks a reconciliation when his violinist son makes his word-renown solo debut. Winner of the Best Michigan Short award at the Detroit Windsor International Film Festival.
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The Visitor
In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life. In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy’s follow-up to his award-winning "Station Agent," Richard Jenkins stars as a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed by a chance encounter in New York City.
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