TARTAN FILMS EXPLODE INTO 2007

2007 kicks off in typical Tartan style with two of the hottest, hippest titles to hit US shores. Dennis Dercourt’s stylishly-chic psychological thriller, THE PAGE TURNER, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival, and hotly anticipated Academy Award winner Andrea Arnold’s provocative masterpiece RED ROAD, an atmospheric and intense thriller starring brilliant newcomer Kate Dickie and Winner of this year’s Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. THE PAGE TURNER opens at the Angelika and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on February 16th and RED ROAD opens on March 9th at the Sunshine Theatres and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in New York.

From legendary Hong Kong director Johnnie To, a recent presenter at the prestigious 2006 Asian Excellence Awards in Los Angeles, comes TRIAD ELECTION played at Cannes (out-of-competition Official Selection) and the Toronto and New York Film Festivals. Set in the dark underworld of the Triads, To’s unique blend of cool mercilessly documents the vicious breakdown of tradition in the face of limitless power as an incredibly bloody and brutal election campaign is launched. TRIAD ELECTION opens April 25th at the Film Forum in New York.

PRINCESS, a Danish film which blazes its own trail entirely, premiers in Spring. A clergyman returns home after a long absence to avenge the death of his famous porn star sister, aided by her orphaned five-year old daughter. This animated and part-live-action film marks a fiercely original and visually dazzling directorial debut by Anders Morgenthaler’s, whose comic strip WulffMorgenthaler, is being made into a cartoon series for MTV. PRINCESS opens May 2007.

June welcomes Cannes 2006 Camera d’Or Prize Winner (Best First Feature) Corneliu Porumboiu’s 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST, which the LA Times has called “sneakily funny.” Bringing together an eclectic group of characters to discuss a highly charged and debatable past, this festival favorite has screened at the Telluride, Toronto, AFI, Seville and Jerusalem Film Festivals. 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST opens June 6th at the Film Forum in New York.

Just in time for the holidays, Tartan rolls out an exceptionally distinctive treat with TAXIDERMIA, an extraordinarily uncommon tale that uses special effects to track three generations of men, including an obese award-winning speed eater, an embalmer of enormous cats and a man who shoots fire out of his penis. Premiering in official selection in Un Certain Regard at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, TAXIDERMIA has won numerous awards. Intertwining historical fact and surrealism, TAXIDERMIA’s mind boggling visual imagination hurtles towards a shocking, stomach churning denouement that would make even David Cronenberg blanche. This film opens in New York. The date is still TBD.