Atlanta Film Festival 2008

Atlanta Film Festival 365

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SEX: The Revolution
Documentary Feature/Out on Film
Two episodes (“Do Your Thing” and “Tainted Love”) of a multi-part documentary series on the sexual revolution and its enduring influence on American culture will be screened. It's a story of a time in our history that challenged centuries of traditional morality about sex: a time that eradicated people's fear, loathing and ignorance about sex, and in the end, a time when laws were changed and rulings made to end censorship and legal retribution for people's private sexual behavior. It was a time of incredible styles, scenes, visionaries, movements, fanatics, charlatans, and middle-class experimentation, but also provoked people of traditional values who felt threatened by it all, who condemned it, and launched a counter-revolution.
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The World Unseen
Narrative Feature/Out on Film
In 1950’s South Africa, apartheid is just beginning. Free-spirited Amina (Sheetal Sheth) has broken all the rules of her own conventional Indian community, and the new apartheid-led government, by running a café with Jacob her ‘coloured’ business partner. When she meets Miriam (Lisa Ray), a young traditional wife and mother, their unexpected attraction pushes Miriam to question the rules that bind her. When Amina helps Miriam’s sister-in-law to hide from the police, a chain of events is set in motion that changes both women. From overcoming oppression to finding personal freedom, from the hardships of a loveless marriage to the hesitant joy of an unexpected love affair, The World Unseen transports the viewer to a vibrant, colorful world that is universal in its themes.
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XXY
Foreign Feature/Out on Film
Argentina’s official submission to the Academy Awards is a film about Alex, a 15-year-old teenager with a dark secret. Soon after her birth, her parents decide to leave Buenos Aires to settle in an isolated wooden house tucked away in the dunes of the Uruguayan shoreline. Then, a couple of friends from Buenos Aires come for a visit with their 16-year-old son Álvaro. Álvaro´s father is a plastic surgeon who accepted the invitation because of his medical concern for Alex. The inevitable attraction between both teenagers forces them all to face their worst fears… Rumours are spreading around town. Alex gets stared at as if she were a freak. People´s fascination with her can become dangerous.
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