Eithan Weitz

Robert Sedlácek's second feature is a comedy that tries to revive the old Czech spirit of Jiri Menzel's My Sweet Little Village. Men in Rut is set in an isolated village at the edge of the Czech Republic.

Todd Solondz has been known to dissect American bourgeoisie and dig out all the dirt they are hiding. His style is unique, and his fan-base will appreciate the new mail in his chain. Preemed at Venice and TIFF, what is unique about Life During Wartime and widely known, is that the original set of characters aren't played by the same actors, but in every other way, the players channel the same DNA as in the 1998 hit Happiness.

There's no denying the talent that oozes from filmmaker Jaco Van Dormael stylistic hand, he has audiences revved up by his Camera D'or Cannes winning 1991 film, with "Toto the Hero", and with his follow-up "The Eighth Day" in 1996 collected awards and accolades.

30-something year-old helmer Julius Sevcik divides his private and personal time between Los Angeles and the Czech Republic. Studying at both the New York Film Academy and on FAMU in Prague, the filmmaker managed to win film awards while still in school, yet for the time being most of his work has been for television. Normal marks his return to the big screen after a five year absence.

With The Arbor, artist Clio Barnard is making her feature directorial debut. The Arbor is a uniquely constructed documentary of the life of the play write Andrea Dunbar, who wrote her first play, "The Arbor", at the of 15, and even though her plays were successful (one of them was even made into a film, entitled "Rita, Sue, and Bob too"), she died of alcoholism at the criminally young age of 29.