A PLACE NEARBY (HER I NAERHEDEN)
Denmark - U.S. Premiere
100 mins.

A fiercely penetrating drama about a mother's devoted love for her autistic adult son, who is suspected of murdering a local girl. The mother knows her son could have committed the murder, but she conceals her knowledge, and gradually becomes entangled in a thicket of lies. How far is she prepared to go to protect her son who is helpless in so many ways? Does she have it within her to give up the only person she loves?

Director: Kaspar Rostrup
Writer: Kaspar Rostrup, based on a novel by Martha Christensen
Producer: Tina Dalhoff
Director of Photography: Eric Kress
Editor: Grete Møldrup
Cast: Ghita Nørby, Frits Helmuth, Henning Moritzen, Thure Lindhardt, Magnus Stahl Jacobsen, Hannah Bjarnhof, Sarah Boberg, Thomas Bo Larsen
Print Contact: +45 3326 6880, Nordisk Film International Sales

THE POOR & HUNGRY
United States - World Premiere
118 mins.

"Most of the time ... the parts are worth more than the whole thing." Thus begins the story of Eli Foote, a car thief in Memphis who falls in love with one of his victims -- a cellist.

Director/Writer: Craig Brewer
Producers: Craig Brewer, Walter Brewer
Director of Photography: Craig Brewer
Editor: Craig Brewer
Cast: Eric Tate, Lindsey Roberts, Lake Latimer, John Still, Keenon Nikita, Dennis Phillippi, T.C. Sharpe, Jay Munn, Wanda Wilson
Print Contact: 901-274-0037, BR2 Productions

UNINVITED
United States/Italy - U.S. Premiere
97 mins.

Obsessed with Patricia since childhood, Tony is accused of her murder and the murder of her family years later. Tony's guilt or innocence doesn't interest his disturbing lawyer, Barolo -- to him there are "only stories, good and bad."

Director/Writer: Carlo Gabriel Nero
Producers: Franco Nero, Francesco Papa
Director of Photography: Giancarlo Ferrando
Editor: Paolo Benassi
Cast: Kevin Isola, Adam Hann-Byrd, Stephen Mendillo, Patricia Dunnock, Eli Wallach, Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Olivia Birkelund, Barton Tinapp, Jessica Munch, Jennifer Wiltsie, Nick Sandow, Bethel Leslie
Print Contact: 718-383-1998, Barolo Films, New York; 39-06-633-972 No Limit International, Rome, Italy

2000 Film Program, 4th Annual Hollywood Film Festival®