BANQUEROUTE (BANKRUPT)
France - U.S. Premiere
75 mins. 5:00 p.m., Studio Theater, Aug.5.

A quirky romantic thriller with a French twist. Nicolas Lanson, a young stockbroker, lives a fast life of money and luxury until the day his high-risk initiatives cause the fall of a bank. He flees with a price on his head. On the run, Nicolas meets Charlotte, pregnant by a man who doesn't want her. Although Nicolas isn't her type, Charlotte seduces him once she discovers his identity. Little does Nicolas know, Charlotte is not leading them to see her brother, but an old lover who just happens to be a cop.

Director: Antoine Desrosières
Writers: Philippe Barassat, Gwennola Bothorel, Antoine Desrosières
Producer: Céline Maugis
Director of Photography: George Lechaptois Editor: Nicolas Le Du
Cast: Mathieu Demy, Gwennola Bothorel, Antoine Chappey, Zinedine Soualem, Howard Vernon


THE CROSSING
The Netherlands - U.S. Premiere
90 mins. Studio Theater, 9:00 p.m., Aug. 6.

The story is about a journey which takes place on one day, from dawn to the dead of night, set in the kitchen of a boarding house and on the streets of an impervious Western European city. Babak fled his native country, Afghanistan, almost 20 years ago and came to live in Brussels where he sought to forget the past. Now the solitary man finds his path crossed by a stranger by the name of Sarban who shows up in the kitchen of the shabby boarding house that morning. For Babak the day gradually becomes a day of reckoning with his past and the nightmare that cut him off from who he really is.

Director/Writer: Nora Hoppe
Producers: Els Vandevorst, Wilfried Depeweg
Director of Photography: Walter Vanden Ende
Editor: Vessela Martschewski
Cast: Behrouz Vossoughi, Johan Leysen

THE DINOSAUR HUNTER
Canada - World Premiere
91 mins. Paramount Theater, 3:00 p.m., Aug. 5.

Based on the award-winning novel My Daniel, by Pam Conrad, this is the story of 13-year-old Julia Creath and her older brother Daniel living on their farm during the days when fossil fever hit everyone, old and young. A time when paleontologists vied for discoveries and people would even kill for those old bones in the ground. People like Hump Hinton, the one-legged prospector who rode into their lives on a camel, and Dr. Jack McCabe, paleontologist and dinosaur hunter, who came from far away for the quest. This is a story of intrigue and danger, of adventure and treachery, a battle between good people and evil and avarice that these children have not known before.

Director: Rick Stevenson
Writer: Edwina Follows
Producers: Gail Tilson, James Brooke
Director of Photography: Gerald Packer
Editor: Jackie Dzuba
Cast: Alison Pill, Bill Switzer, Shaun Johnston, Wendy Anderson, Simon MacCorkindale, Christopher Plummer, R.H. Thomson, Enuka Okuma, Joely Collins, Robert Maxwell