ND/NF 2009 Program Overview Amreeka We Live in Public $9.99 Autumn Barking Water Birdwatchers Can Go Through Skin Cold Souls The Cove Every Little Step The Fly Give Me Your Hand Harmony and Me Home Louise-Michel The Maid Mid-August Lunch The Milk of Sorrow Ordinary Boys Paper Soldier Parque vía The Shaft Stay the Same... Treeless Mountain Unmade Beds Teaming Up Ticket Info About Submissions Past ND/NF Festivals

$9.99 Series: New Directors/New Films 2009 Director: Tatia Rosenthal, Country: Israel/Australia, Release: 2008, Runtime: 78 Writing in the filmlinc blog, Matt Griffin says the film is "staggeringly intimate and multivalent. Her film is itself peer to the creative achievement of Etgar Keret’s highly acclaimed stories — the two-, three-page pocket-universes that are the source for the film’s script (developed and co-written with Keret)." Read the whole review>> Dave Peck is an almost-30, out-of-work dreamer living in urban anonymity with his father. He fantasizes about discovering the meaning of life, and when he hears of a book offering to reveal that mystery for “the low price of $9.99,” he believes the answers may be at hand. Though the scope of his world is limited to the neighbors in his building (a widower with a cranky guardian angel; a down-on-his-luck magician; a seductive woman; a newly single man; and a rebellious little boy), he quickly discovers that the complexities of life can’t be arranged in the pages of a discount book. Based on the work of acclaimed writer Etgar Keret (who also served as co-writer), $9.99 employs stop-motion animation in a highly visual exploration of urban disillusionment and dreams deferred. A Regent Releasing release.

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