Youssou Ndour:
I Bring What I Love

Coming in June

Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love is a music-infused cinematic journey about the power of one man’s voice to inspire change. One of Time magazine’s100 most influential people in the world and called “the rare rock star whose music matters,” Senegalese singer Youssou Ndour is beloved internationally and at home. In 2005, the Grammy-winning artist defied expectations and produced his most personal album, Egypt, presenting his Islamic faith as a peaceable and tolerant religion. While the record received international acclaim, it was denounced as blasphemy in his native Senegal.

Director Chai Vasarhelyi follows Ndour for over two years, filming in Africa, Europe, and America, to tell the story of how he faces these challenges and eventually wins over audiences both at home and abroad.

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Under our skin

Coming in Spring 2009

A dramatic tale of microbes, medicine and money, UNDER OUR SKIN plays like a taut thriller—but it is our own lives that may be at stake. This riveting film, a documentary with the propulsion of a narrative, investigates the untold story of Lyme disease, an emerging epidemic larger than AIDS. Each year thousands go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, told that their symptoms are "all in their head." Following the stories of patients and physicians as they battle for their lives and livelihoods, the film brings into focus a haunting picture of our health care system and its ability to cope with a silent and growing terror, and the even more terrifying response the medical status quo has given it.

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sita sings the blues

Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama.  Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as "the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told."

Shadow will be handling bookings west of the Mississippi River. If your theater is located east of the Mississippi, please contact Dave Jesteadt of GKIDS by calling 212-528-0500 or emailing him at dave@gkids.com.

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Skills Like This

To be released in March 2009

SKILLS LIKE THIS is a hilarious, original and freewheeling comedy with a real heart, winner of a well-deserved Audience Award at the South by Southwest Film Festival.

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the silence before bach

"The jingling piano, the humming traffic and the prancing horse tap out separate if connecting songs in the beguiling nonnarrative film "The Silence Before Bach," from the septuagenarian Spanish auteur Pere Portabella. You could say that these three make beautiful music together....Like the music it celebrates, this is a film made in glory of the world."
-Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

"The Silence Before Bach is not only very civilized—this cool, deliberate film suggests that Bach's music is the quintessence of European civilization. At once cerebral film essay and unsweetened ear candy, Pere Portabella's The Silence Before Bach is nearly as tough to categorize as its maker."
-J. Hoberman, Village Voice
 

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Jonathan Demme Presents:

Warsaw Bridge (Pont DE VARSOVIA)

For the first time, the groundbreaking '80s masterpiece by Pere Portabella, the Spanish master, Bunuel associate and director of THE SILENCE BEFORE BACH, is available in the United States and Canada.

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