Duration: June 11-21 City: Los Angeles Country: USA Edition: 9th/2003 Venues: DGA, ArcLight, Laemmle Sunset 5 Official Site: LAFF Other Years: LA Film Fest

Plume Noire covers the 9th IFP Los Angeles Film Festival. Read about the winners of the festival and check out our reviews.

28 Days Later In 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle pays homage to genre films, bringing us to a world devastated by a virus that has transformed humans in flesh-eating zombies.

Buffalo Soldiers An updated adaptation of Robert O' Connor's bleak novel, which is based on several American soldiers' reports and depicts the shady exaction of US military staff in post-Cold War Germany, Buffalo Soldiers is centered around Ray Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix), the colorful mastermind behind smuggling on an army base.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari A German Expressionist film directed in 1920 by Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is above all one of the most striking films of cinema. This film is the first and without a doubt the last cinematic work of art that 80 years later still arouses the passion of critics and analyses of film and art enthusiasts.

Friday Night A far cry from the postcard imagery foreigners might have of Paris, Claire Denis' Friday Night plunges us into a stand-still moment of the gritty everyday life of Parisians.

Kiki & Tiger Set in Germany, Kiki & Tiger follows the friendship between a Serbian and an Albanian in the late 1990's as violence in Kosovo reaches a boiling point.

Particles of Truth With Particles of Truth, Jennifer Elster has crafted a compelling and vivid story about insecurity, art, addiction, pride and the potential for love in New York City.

Unknown Pleasures Jia Zhianghe, whose films Xiao Wu and Platform garnered considerable attention, returns with a contemplative work about the idleness of Chinese youth in a country in transition.

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