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This documentary takes viewers along surfing's timeline, highlighting the group of extraordinary adventurers that emerged: surfers who, not satisfied with the mere recreational and social aspects of the sport, began searching for bigger and bigger waves, pushing the boundaries of performance to explore the "unridden realm." (Sony Pictures Classics)

A redneck with an uncanny knack for getting arrested becomes the star of his own reality program. (imdb)

Bee Season is the kaleidoscopic portrait of a modern American family whose picture-perfect surface conceals an underlying world of secret turmoil. (Fox Searchlight)

A serial killer haunts the streets of Georgetown, do these events have anything to do with the exorcism of 15 years ago? (imdb)

An inspirational drama, Akeelah and the Bee is the story of Akeelah Anderson (Palmer), a precocious eleven-year old girl from south Los Angeles with a gift for words. Despite the objections of her mother (Bassett), Akeelah enters various spelling contest, for which she is tutored by the forthright Dr. Larabee (Fishburne), her principal Mr. Welch (Armstrong) and the proud residents of her neighborhood... (Lionsgate)

Follows the Dutton family on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America.

Come in-if you dare. The opening-night gala for a new exhibit at Chicago's natural history museum is under way. But be advised: something terrifying wants to make sure no one ever leaves. (Paramount)

Pedro Costa's snail-paced evocation of an old man dislocated in time and place (hollywoodreporter.com)

An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King. (imdb)

Laure has moved to a new place with her parents and little sister Jeanne. Laure doesn't know anyone yet. When she meets Lisa, a girl around the same age as her, she lets her think she's a boy. Laure becomes Mikaël, and starts to play with the other kids. (http://www.berlinale.de)