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2009 Festival Film List continued.

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Feature Presentations - Documentaries

  • The Horse Boy
    When a Texas family realizes its autistic son shows a deep calm in the presence of the family's horse, they embark on a unique adventure to Mongolia. Special preview of a film due for release in the fall. Winner at Sundance, Sarasota and South by Southwest Film Festivals.   
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  • Food, Inc.
    An unflattering look inside America’s corporate-controlled industry. It may dull appetites.   
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  • Afghan Star
    “Afghan Star” (UK, 2009, 87 minutes) After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, millions of Afghanistan citizens are watching the TV series "Afghan Star" and voting by mobile phones to pick winners. The film follows four candidates and the risks they take. Winner at Sundance Film Festival.   
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  • Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29
    Players on both sides of the 1968 Ivy League football match recall not only the game but also the era of Vietnam War protests, student uprisings and the birth control pill. On the Harvard team was actor Tommy Lee Jones, who was Al Gore's roommate; on the Yale team was George W. Bush's roommate and a player who was dating actress Meryl Streep.   
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  • The Way We Get By
    The tiny airport in Bangor, Maine, is the last sight of America soldiers see on their way to war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the first taste of home on their return. For the past six years, three senior citizens in the town have devotedly met and greeted each planeload passing through -- nearly 1 million veterans in all. Winner at South by Southwest Film Festival.   
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  • The Borinqueneers
    The Puerto Rican 65th Infantry regiment, the only all-Hispanic unit in U.S. Army history, served valiantly in World War I and World War II and then ended up shrouded in controversy during the Korean War. Narrated by Hector Elizondo, the award-winning film mixes archival footage with interviews of those who served.   
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  • Carnaval
    Judith Kerman, a professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University, captures the mask and costume traditions in the Dominican Republic.   
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  • Trailers From Hell
    An showcase of original, vintage, eclectic movie trailers -- many of them better than the movies they promoted -- accompanied by amusing and insightful commentary by some of Hollywood’s top filmmakers. Among the filmmakers are Joe Dante, Rick Baker and John Landis.   
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