Two film festival winners are among the highlights of this year?s Bermuda International Film Festival, which opens on March 19.

?Born Into Brothels?, which won the Documentary Audience Choice award at January?s Sundance festival, and Rotterdam 2004 Tiger Award winner ?Summer in the Golden Valley? are among 14 films selected to screen in competition at the Bermuda International Film Festival, which runs from March 19-25.

In ?Born Into Brothels?,Directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman spent time with the children of prostitutes in the red light district of Calcutta to make their compelling documentary. Ms Briski, an award-winning photographer, taught the children how to take photographs with the result that their work has been shown internationally.

In ?Summer in the Golden Valley? Director Srdjan Vuletic captured the new, post-war Sarajevo with his feature film about teenage, glue sniffing, sexually charged kids who do little by day and less by night.

Seven features and seven documentaries make up the competition categories. The full competition film line-up is:

(d. Juan Carlos Desanzo, Argentina, 92 mins)

Polaquito works on the trains coming into Constitution Station, Buenos Aires. He sings traditional, Argentinian songs and then holds his hat out for change. All his money goes to Limp, the local representative of the station mafia, and to his drunken, abusive father. Polaquito?s life changes when he meets Pelu, the newest prostitute recruited, and Limp?s stepdaughter.

He falls in love with her, and dares to dream of escape from his life and of creating a family with her.

(d. Steven Lewis Simpson, United Kingdom, 85 mins)

Two locals witness a murder on the remote west coast of Scotland. The killer doesn?t know their identity, and hires a hit man to kill everyone in the village. The hit man times the drive to the village from the nearest police station - 28 minutes, 36 seconds. He arrives in the village, starts his stop watch - and begins the killing spree. Pandemonium ensues as he methodically hunts down his targets, who frantically try to stay alive.

(d. Srdjan Vuletic, Bosnia-Herzegovina/France/United Kingdom, 104 mins)

Fikret and his friends are teenage, glue sniffing, sexually charged kids who do little by day and less by night. When Fikret?s father dies, a stranger appears at the burial to demand that an unknown debt be paid. To honour his father, Fikret is determined to pay the debt. He and his seemingly feckless friend soon find themselves caught up in a dubious scheme led by corrupt policemen. The characters in this Sarajevo story are funny and serious, despairing and confident. Director Vuletic successully combines drama with humour as he captures the new Sarajevo.

(d. Bob Smeaton, United States/Canada, 90 mins)

In 1970, a train was chartered to cross Canada carrying some of the greatest rock bands of the time - Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, Ten Years After, Traffic, Buddy Guy and others lived and partied together for five days, stopping in major cities along the way to play concerts. The concerts and the train journey were shot by an award-winning four-camera crew, resulting in perhaps the last great rock music film.

(d. Alex Cooke, United Kingdom/France, 59 mins)

In true Hollywood style, and after much media speculation, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy for Governor of California on the Jay Leno Show on 6 August 2003. High profile celebrity with action-hero status? It doesn?t get better than that. The world was watching. But as Schwarzenegger hit the campaign trail, were we just witnessing the cult of celebrity? Was it all style over content? Would fame and money win out? This is a hilarious and insightful satire that tells the story of the most bizarre American election to date. With so many candidates ? from delusional hopefuls to actors, porn stars, porn peddlers and performance artists, as well as seasoned politicians ? the circus really did come to town.

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