03 Aug 2005
The Wendell Baker Story
Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends them a hand in fighting hotel corruption.
Rhino Season
Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.
Top Billed Cast
Behrouz Vossoughi Sahel
Monica Bellucci Mina
Caner Cindoruk Young Sahel
Yılmaz Erdoğan Akbar Rezai
Belçim Bilgin Ebru (Female Pimp)
Ali Pourtash 
Beren Saat Daughter
Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan Driver
Arslan Burak Bozdag Villager
Umut Orkun Eskibatman
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