Los Angeles Film Festival 2011 :. Dates: June 16th - 26th :. Venue: Downtown LA :. City: Los Angeles :. Country: USA :. Edition: 2010/16th :. Official Site: Los Angeles Film Festival 2011

From June 16th to June 26th, Plume Noire was the LA film festival to bring you exclusive reviews of the films presented as well as a festival blog.

.: Best Narrative Feature: Familiar Ground
.: Best Documentary Feature: Wish Me Away
.: Best Ensemble Performance: How to Cheat
.: Best Narrative Short: he Wind Is Blowing on My Street
.: Best Documentary Short: I Am a Girl!
.: Best Narrative Feature - Audience: Attack the Block
.: Best International Feature - Audience: Senna
.: Best Documentary Feature - Audience: Beats, Rhymes & Life
.: Best Short - Audience: Blind Date
.: Best Music Video - Audience: Grum's Can’t Shake This Feeling

The Bad Intentions The Bad Intentions is an absorbing and darkly poetic work, which advances slowly but delivers beauty out of its own anguish.

Drive Having surprised us earlier with Valhalla Rising, a metaphysical masterpiece on the edge of experimental cinema which reinvented the Vikings subgenre, we could justly wonder what director Nicolas Winding Refn would do with the classic story of a lone hero who gets in trouble after a heist went bad.

Elite Squad 2 Slick and intense, without going over-the-top, the film is reminiscent of those vicious Italian crime flicks from the 70's.

The Fatherless Like lots of movies based on the same premise, The Fatherless is a bit claustrophobic as you get stuck with a few characters within the limits of a property.

The Guard While you might not be familiar with writer/director John Michael McDonagh as The Guard is his first directional effort, the fact that he is the brother of Martin McDonagh whose flamboyant debut was the viciously funny In Bruges should give you an idea of what to expect.

Habana Eva If you ever flipped through your TV channels and watched some telenovela for fun, for a few minutes, this would give you an idea of how Habana Eva looks like.

Love Crime The last film from the late Alain Corneau (Tous les matins du monde, Fort Saganne) had been designed to fulfill one of his obsessions, the making of a perfect crime.

The Night Watchman Writer/director Natalia Almada has apparently decided to make art with a documentary, the result being an infuriating pretentious and vapid work where life is staged to attempt to create art.

Paraiso For Sale It's no secret that Panama has, for more than a decade, become a haven for American and Canadian middle-class retirees, as not only prime - beachfront - real estate used to be dirt cheap but the locals speak a decent enough English to make for a quite smooth cultural transition and adaptation.

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