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<dd><b>Film Festival Opening Night
<dd>Gala Celebrates Two Legendary Actresses</b> <br><br>
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<h1><b>2010 Featured Films<br><br>
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<dd><h2><b>Root-Searching: The Stories Behind the Watchtowers</b></h2>
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<dd>Country:
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<dd>China
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<dd>Feature:
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<dd>120 mins <br>
<dd>The Chinese have played many varied roles in other countries when
they have left China.<br><br>
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<dd><h2><b>The Olympic Dream of a Village</b></h2>
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<dd>Country:
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<dd>China
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<dd>Feature:
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<dd>90 mins
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<dd>Director:
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<dd>Zhang Mingshong, Zheng Xiaoxu, Gong Tuo, Zhong Lixin, Lu Zhenping
<br>
<dd>The film depicts the struggle of a teenage boy Li Hanhua who lost the
use of his two legs in an accident. Formerly a local swimming champion,
as we approach the 2008 Olympics, he comes back into race, competing this
time in the framework of 2008 Paralympic Games. This film is the moving
story of a young man whose life is a great lesson of bravery and
determination. Solidarity is also a key value in this film as the
community is very supportive to this young guy.<br><br>
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</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Idiots</b></h2>
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<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image001.jpg" width=200 height=258 alt="Idiots">
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<dd>Country:
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<dd>India
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<dd>Feature:
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<dd>2 hr 40 mins
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<dd>Director:
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<dd>Rajkumar Hirani <br>
<dd>Two friends embark on a quest for a lost buddy. On this journey, they
encounter a long forgotten bet, a wedding they must crash and a funeral
that goes impossibly out of control. As they make their way through the
perilous landscape, another journey begins: their inner journey through
memory lane and the story of their friend – the irrepressible free
thinker Rancho, who in his unique way, touched and changed their lives.
<br><br>
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<dd><h2><b>7 Days in Slow Motion</b></h2>
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<dd>
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<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>India
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>100min
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<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Umakanth Thumrugoti <br><br>
<dd>Ravi's lives his life by the pie-chart his mother defines for him -
60% education and only 0.2% - 2.9 minutes each day for fun! When Ravi and
his friends, chance upon the camera of a visiting tourist, they see their
dreams come true where they can make a Bollywood film and meet the famous
actress, Ms.Ray. The path to making a film is riddled with problems: they
only have 7 days to return the camera and their final exams begin in 7
days! The 7 days mark a comical journey ……. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Bandhobi</b></h2>
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<dd>
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<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>South Korea
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<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>107min
</dl>
<dd>Director:
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<dd>SHIN Dong-il
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<dd>Production supported by:
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<dd>Korean Film Council <br><br>
<dd>Min-suh is a lonely high scholar. Her single mother is busy dating
younger men and her friends are busy preparing for university. She takes
care of herself through a part-time job that doesn’t cover the bills.
Sick of her mother’s love affairs, she runs away from home and encounters
a migrant worker named Karim. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Bugambilia (1945)</b></h2>
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<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image005.jpg" width=252 height=350 alt="Blind Ambition">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>Mexico
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>105 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Emilio “El Indio” Fernandez <br>
<dd>The spoiled daughter (Delores Del Rio) of a immensely wealthy miner
is pursued by many suitors, but when she falls in love with the least
respectable of them, her jealous father’s reaction leads to disaster for
all. <br><br>
</dl>
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<dd><h2><b>Cinema Salvation</b></h2>
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<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image006.png" width=318 height=219 alt="Cinema Salvation">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>USA
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>96 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Mike Cohen <br>
<dd>Greg loved Hannah, Hannah loved Greg, but Hannah also loves God but
being an atheist, Greg doesn’t. When their engagement fell apart, Greg
was shattered. But instead of turning to God like Hannah had, Greg turned
his focus to film. When his script about Hannah was chosen to be
produced, Greg’s new journey as a director began – with cameras capturing
it all. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Darren & Abbey</b></h2>
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<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image007.jpg" width=638 height=817 alt="Darren & Abbey">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>USA
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>70 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Michael P. Noens <br>
<dd>Two teenage strangers spend an unexpectedly engaging evening with one
another on the eve of Christmas Eve discussing five major human desires:
power, money, family, sex and time. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Desierto Adentro</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image008.jpg" width=400 height=225 alt="Desierto Adentro">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>Mexico
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>110 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Rodrigo Pla <br>
<dd>The film is set against the backdrop of Mexico’s Cristero War, which
took place between 1926 and 1929, when the Mexican government banned
Catholicism and persecuted its followers. In rural Mexico a man commits a
sin against the Catholic Church by not defending it against the
revolutionaries and yet another by betraying his village. The film
incorporates animation and art as bookends to each series of events.
<br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Flor Silvestre (1943)</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image009.jpg" width=200 height=281 alt="Flor Silvestre (1943)">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>Mexico
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>94 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Emilio Fernandez <br>
<dd>Wealthy young Jose Luis Castro loves and marries a beautiful poor
girl, Esperanza, to the angry dismay of both his father and hers. Not
only does Jose Luis marry “below his station,” he becomes involved in
revolutionary activities, trying to achieve equality for all in Mexico.
Esperanza tells this tale of the Mexican Revolution in flashback
throughout this movie, to her grown son who never knew his father.
<br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Florida Road</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image010.jpg" width=400 height=300 alt="Florida Road">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>South Africa
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>110 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Brad Glass <br>
<dd>'Florida Road' is set in Durban, South Africa and centers on the life
of young Shaan Sahay, mid 20's, whose family moved from Mumbai, India to
South Africa for a better life when Shaan was just a young boy. Shaan
wants to write Hollywood action films, while his father wants him to
follow a more conventional career, like his brother. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Fly Penguin</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image011.jpg" width=200 height=284 alt="Fly Penguin">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>South Africa
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>110 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>YIM Soon-rye <br>
<dd>The film is about familiar events that reflects the lives of ordinary
people in Korea at the present time. Through these stories, the director
shows us how a society imposes normalcy on its people in their daily
lives. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>God’s Country, Off Route 9</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image012.jpg" width=800 height=450 alt="God’s Country, Off Route 9">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>USA
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>103 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Steven Saylor <br>
<dd>A debt-ridden ex-grad student is goaded into returning home to
family-values country to play the role of "loyal son" in his
estranged father's political campaign. "God's Country, Off Route
9" is a dark comedy that fuses unrequited love, local politics, and
post-racial culture against a backdrop of unresolved family issues,
self-love, and self-loathing. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>I am Bish</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image013.jpg" width=566 height=800 alt="I am Bish">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>Australia
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>90 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>David Bishop <br>
<dd>What 'I am Legend' would have been if the hero was fatter,
whiter,stupider and lived in Perth, Western Australia -- the most
isolatedcapital city in the world – if he also had a video camera and was
under siege by 300 zombies. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>I Am Somebody: No Chance in Hell</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image014.jpg" width=800 height=600 alt="I Am Somebody: No Chance in Hell">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>USA
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>101 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Aki Aleong <br>
<dd>In 1870's America, a Chinese immigrant accused of murdering a white
woman is viciously hunted down; he must try to prove his innocence in a
time when people of color had no legal rights and could be bought and
sold for a profit. This untold tale of America's past will transport you
on a provocative east-meets-west journey, intertwined with the roots of
the Chinese, the blacks and the Mexicans as they dramatically clash with
an emerging new America. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>In 200 Characters or Less</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image015.jpg" width=540 height=800 alt="In 200 Characters or Less">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>USA
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>83 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Mauro Giuffrida <br>
<dd>Today, we are more affected by technology than we think. When Michael
is asked to describe himself in 200 characters or less for an on-line
dating service, his journey of escaping loneliness begins. But is it
really that easy to find someone? <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>La Perla (1945)</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image016.jpg" width=170 height=134 alt="La Perla (1945)">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>Mexico
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>85 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Emilio Fernandez <br><br>
<dd>Quino, his wife Juana and their son live in a tiny Mexican fishing
village. When Quino finds a huge, beautiful pearl at the bottom of the
sea, he has visions of wealth and an education for his son. However,
locals and even pearl buyers try to swindle him out of it, even attacking
him for it. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Las-Abandonadas-1944</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image017.jpg" width=200 height=271 alt="Las Abandonadas (1944)">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>Mexico
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>103 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Emilio Fernandez <br>
<dd>A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing bigamist husband, is
forced to provide for her son and combat the difficulties of being an
unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Maya Bazaar</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image018.jpg" width=540 height=260 alt="Maya Bazaar">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>India
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>2 hrs 45 min
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>K V Reddy <br>
<dd>A legendary tale of Mahabharata, the episode is about the romance
between Abhimanyu , son of Arjuna and Sasirekha. Since the Pandavas don't
have any wealth as they lost it all in gamble, Sakuni hatches a plan to
get Lakshmana engaged to Sasirekha. Noticing this, Lord Krishna enters
the scene and he devises a counter plan. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Neither Day Nor Night</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image019.png" width=150 height=84 alt="Neither Day Nor Night">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>USA
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>105 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Chris Schwab <br>
<dd>Amy Young is a 24-year-old woman striving to establish a closer
relationship with her widowed father Harris, who appears reluctant.
Ultimately, Harris has no choice when he becomes temporarily bedridden
and Amy moves in to care for him. Suspicions replace Amy’s compassion for
her father when she discovers the source of his antagonism towards her.
<br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Paa</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image020.jpg" width=200 height=263 alt="Paa">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>India
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>126 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>R. Balakrishnan <br><br>
<dd>Auro is an intelligent 12-year-old boy with an extremely rare genetic
defect progeria; mentally he is twelve and very normal, but physically he
looks five times older. Auro lives with his mother Vidya who is a
gynecologist; Amol Arte is a young, full-of-ideals politician. Auro is
Amol's son and Vidya conceals this from him since Amol wanted her to have
an abortion. When Auro does learn the truth he tries to get his mother
and father back together; Amol realizes his mistake and stays by Auro's
side when his health begins to deteriorate. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Pueblerina (1948)</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image021.jpg" width=200 height=131 alt="Pueblerina (1948)">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>Mexico
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>106 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Emilio Fernandez <br><br>
<dd>Aurelio avenged the rape of his beloved Paloma by killing her
attacker, and served six years in prison. Released on parole, he returns
home only to find his mother has died and Paloma is living in poverty
with her six-year-old son. Aurelio still loves Paloma and wants to marry
her and live peacefully on his farm, but others in the town are not
willing to leave him alone. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Ringa Ringa</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image022.jpg" width=200 height=200 alt="Ringa Ringa">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>India
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>100 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Sanjay Jadhav <br>
<dd>"Ringa Ringa roses … all fall down." Ringa Ringa was filmed
on the backdrop of picturesque Goa, India. The film’s script revolves
around a character Rang, a man with a criminal background who turns
politician. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Shikshancha</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image023.jpg" width=200 height=289 alt="Shikshancha">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>India
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>1 hr 48 mins
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Mahesh Manjrekar <br><br>
<dd>Shri was born with great talent in cricket, but in studies he is
average. Like many fathers, his father does not value his talent in
sports, and believes that a child’s intellect is reflected only in their
grade sheet. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Sneakers & Soul</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image024.jpg" width=800 height=344 alt="Sneakers & Soul">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>USA
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>101 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Jonathan Zelanak <br>
<dd>“You should always have a perfect bed and comfortable shoes, because
when you’re not in one, you’re in the other.” This is the credo of
Johnny-boy Bailey’s late father, Murray, a man whose passion for life and
love for adventure was an inspiration to all. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Sontha Uuru</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image025.jpg" width=1024 height=725 alt="Sontha Uuru">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>India
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>2 hrs
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>I.S.S. Murthy <br>
<dd>A small village has many characters in the form of Raja, who is in
love with Malli , the prostitute; both of them are quite close to Rudru
who takes care of the graveyard. Everything goes well in the village till
their lives take a turn when the government comes with the proposal of
setting up a special business zone.They want the villagers to sell their
lands and leave. Whether the village folks accept it or not forms the
rest of the story. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>The Ode</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image026.jpg" width=396 height=214 alt="The Ode">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>USA
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>97 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Neil Lahiri <br>
<dd>THE ODE spans two generations and intertwines the doomed but
passionate love story of Parin and Shiraz with the tempestuous life of
their son Ali, who is gay. When his mother comes to visit Ali, attempts
to change his ways, we glimpse into a troubled past he cannot escape and
which threatens to destroy him unless he finds peace with his mother.
<br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>The Last Musketeer</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image027.jpg" width=800 height=452 alt="The Last Musketeer">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>USA
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>89 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Art Zapata, Emre Korkmaz <br>
<dd>A mother’s love, a father’s struggle and a boy’s fantasy. The Last
Musketeer is about a Latino family, Joe, Christine and Johnny Souza and
their struggle with alcoholism. This drama is loosely based on true
events. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Tierra Madre</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image028.jpg" width=800 height=448 alt="Tierra Madre">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>USA
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>62 minutes
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Dylan Verrechia <br>
<dd>The true story of a woman on the Mexican border determined to raise
her children with her female partner. Aidee Gonzales is an aging stripper
who lives in Tecate, Mexico. It is a portrait about herself, her friends,
her children, and her girlfriend Rosalba. When Rosalba comes to live with
Aidee and her children, Rosalba tells her of her desire to have a baby of
her own. Aidee cannot refuse her lover that wish and together they go
looking for a male partner to bear her a child. <br><br>
</dl>
</dl>
<dd><h2><b>Vinnaithandi Varuvaya</b></h2>
<dl>
<dd>
<img src="http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/images/2010/featured/image029.jpg" width=600 height=300 alt="Tierra Madre">
</b></h2>
<dd>Country:
<dl>
<dd>India
</dl>
<dd>Feature:
<dl>
<dd>2 hrs
</dl>
<dd>Director:
<dl>
<dd>Gowtham menon <br>
<dd>The story of ‘Vinnaithandi Varuvaya’ is about an aspiring film maker
Karthik, who wants to make it big in his profession. On his journey to
success he falls in love with Jessie. But as things move on he is forced
to choose either his ambition or love and he’s ready to sacrifice his
dream for his love.
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