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12
Russia, 2007, 153 min.
This riveting psychological drama is a loose remake of 12 Angry Men. As the jurors debate the details of their first-degree murder case, they reflect on contemporary Russian society.... more
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14 Women
USA, 2007, 77 min.
An intimate documentary portrait of the 14 female senators who currently serve our country. Director Mary Lambert has gained extraordinary access, following the senators cinema verité style from 2004–2006 as they struggle to fight the good fight while balancing family, friends and workload.... more
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The 3 Little Pigs
Canada, 2007, 124 min.
In his directorial debut, Patrick Huard shows remarkable assurance in this story about three sex-obsessed brothers and their heated consideration of the pros and cons of infidelity. Inventive, bawdy, politically incorrect, and frequently hilarious.... more
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Romania, 2007, 113 min.
One of the most highly acclaimed films of the year, this gritty, gripping drama portrays a university student who helps her roommate arrange an illegal abortion and is forced into a maelstrom of dramatic events.... more
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The Air I Breathe
USA, 2007, 97 min.
Romantic/crime drama in four segments with four acclaimed actors representing the key emotions of life set out by a Chinese proverb: happiness (Forest Whitaker), pleasure (Brendan Fraser), sorrow (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and love (Kevin Bacon).... more
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Angels in the Dust
South Africa, 2007, 94 min.
A wealthy Johannesburg family abandons their comfortable existence and spends their life savings to establish an orphanage in a village where 50% of the population is HIV-positive. This powerful documentary celebrates how children who are surrounded by death and tragedy can be instilled with strengt... more
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Anna M.
France, 2007, 106 min.
Isabelle Carré offers a scintillating performance as a psychologically damaged woman who develops a dangerous erotic obsession with the married doctor treating her after her suicide attempt. Compared to Haneke’s The Piano Teacher and Claude Chabrol’s L’Enfer, Michel Spinosa’s feature i... more
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The Art of Crying
Denmark, 2006, 105 min.
A chilling tale of domestic abuse told with black humor and acute understanding. Young Allan will do anything he can to keep his family together. His innocence is his best protection against a father who misbehaves to ensure that he gets what he wants, however forbidden his desires.... more
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The Art of Negative Thinking
Norway, 2007, 79 min.
This transgressive black comedy skewers PC correctness toward the disabled, as a wheelchair-bound accident victim challenges the conventional pieties of a therapy group for the handicapped. A multiple award winner, it provides a cathartic message about the need to accept reality.... more
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The Art of Travel
USA, 2007, 100 min.
High school graduate Conner Layne plans to marry his sweetheart, but soon finds himself on an adventure through the Darien Gap, a hundred-mile swath of jungle between Central and South America.... more
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As Seen Through These Eyes
USA, 2007, 70 min.
Hilary Helstein’s revelatory documentary looks at the Holocaust from point of view of those interned who fought back by making art, documenting the horrors that lay before them as well as those dwelling so uneasily in their memories. Narrated by Maya Angelou.... more
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Autism: The Musical
USA, 2007, 94 min.
An emotional, loving, and moving documentary following the six-month rehearsal process of the aptly-named Miracle Project, in which a group of autistic children write and perform a full-length musical.... more
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Ballerina
France, 2007, 77 min.
Fans of Ballets Russes will enjoy this resplendent documentary about the training and unique skills of five dancers from the Mariniinski Theater, formerly known as the Kirov Ballet. Rich with ravishing performances, it focuses on some of Russia’s pre-eminent ballerinas.... more
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The Band's Visit
Israel, 2007, 89 min.
This witty and gentle lark presents an Egyptian brass band in a backwater, desert Israeli town and the comical tensions that erupt among the band’s members, hosts, and potential audience.... more
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Beaufort
Israel, 2007, 120 min.
The last days of a legendary Israeli outpost in Lebanon are brought to harrowing life (and death) in this searing docudrama. Drawing comparisons to All Quiet on the Western Front, the film was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival.... more
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Before the Rains
USA, 98 min.
Acclaimed cinematographer Santosh Sivan brilliantly captures the rustic beauty of his native Kerala with its sweeping vistas as a backdrop for a torrid love affair set in 1937 India—a world where characters are caught between loyalty to British colonialism and the desire for freedom.... more
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Belle Toujours
Portugal, 2006, 70 min.
Thirty-eight years after Buñuel’s Belle du jour, Henri and Séverine meet again by chance in an elegant concert hall in Paris. The two have obviously changed, yet Henri seems content to dwell in their perverse past. De Olveira’s elegant style and cunning narrative manages to create a tense, me... more
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Ben X
Belgium, 2007, 93 min.
16-year-old Ben is different. Bullied at school and unable to communicate, he escapes into his video-game world until his tormentors go too far and Ben devises a plan to get rid of them once and for all. Director Nic Balthazar’s dazzling debut blends fantasy and harsh social realism.... more
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Breakfast With Scot
Canada, 2007, 95 min.
Sam and Ed are a pretty buttoned-down gay couple. Sam, a former pro-hockey player, is a straight-acting sports broadcaster. When Ed’s nephew, Scot—who wears make-up, knits and adores show tunes—enters their lives, things have to change in this charming comedy. ... more
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Breath
South Korea, 2007, 84 min.
A woman’s growing obsession with a condemned criminal takes root and blossoms with the changing seasons in this evocative and highly original tale from Korean director Kim Ki-Duk, best known for his Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring.... more
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Burn the Bridges
Mexico, 2007, 105 min.
Winner of the Audience Award at the recent Morelia Film Festival, Francisco Franco Alba's drama circles around teenage brother and sister living in a decaying colonial mansion, who must deal with the upsetting erotic intrusion of a lower-class tough.... more
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The Business of Being Born
USA, 2007, 84 min.
Abby Epstein’s intelligent investigative documentary details the downside of hospital child birthing practices while stumping for innately healthier natural childbirth methods. Actor Ricki Lake (shown having her baby naturally) is our guide through this perfect companion piece to Sicko.... more
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California Dreamin' (Endless)
Romania, 2007, 155 min.
This complex dark comedy of near-Shakespearean proportions was inspired by a Kosovo war incident involving American troops accompanying a NATO train who were stopped at a rural Romanian railway station because they lacked customs documents. Best Film, Un Certain Regard, 2007 Cannes Film Festival.... more
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Call Me Troy
USA, 2007, 100 min.
A rousing, riveting paean to a hero of the contemporary fight for GLBT rights, Call Me Troy traces the life and times of the charismatic Reverend Troy Perry, a founder of the Metropolitan Community Church in Los Angeles, self-proclaimed “polar teddy bear” and tireless activist for gay rights ... more
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The Champagne Spy
Israel, 2007, 90 min.
Oded is just 12 years old when his father reveals to him that he's a Mossad spy. While anxiously awaiting his return from a top secret mission in Cairo, Oded journeys into the shadowy corners of his father's real and covert identities.... more
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Chaos
Egypt, 2007, 122 min.
In this biting social melodrama, Hatem, a Cairo police chief, runs his district with an iron fist and complete disregard for the law, until his unrequited lust for a young neighbor causes him to resort to previously unparalleled acts of misconduct.... more
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Chaotic Ana
Spain, 2007, 116 min.
Nubile young Ana takes a journey of personal transformation through art, love and sex. Finding that she has lived many past lives, she travels back through hypnosis and finds the horrific links to the chaos in her present day existence.... more
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Christopher Columbus, the Enigma
Portugal, 2007, 77 min.
Cinematic master Manoel de Oliveira, who turned 99 in December, shows he is still in peak form with this quiet drama about one doctor’s quest to prove that Christopher Columbus was Portuguese. Featuring Oliveira and his wife Maria Isabel in prominent roles.... more
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City of Men
Brazil, 2007, 106 min.
From the team behind companion piece City of God comes this less razzle-dazzle but more emotionally affecting story of the friendship between two 18-year-olds in the slums of Rio and the effects on their relationship caused by a burgeoning gang war.... more
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City in Heat
Argentina, 2006, 100 min.
Much like an Argentine The Big Chill, this warm ensemble film follows the entangled relationships of three thirty-something friends who gather at a jazzy Buenos Aires pub after the suicide of a loved one.... more
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Dasepo Naughty Girls
South Korea, 2006, 103 min.
While attending No Use High School, Poor Girl has fallen head-over-heels for rich kid Anthony, who in turn has an obsession with the class virgin's sister. If their paths are to cross, they'll have to negotiate a demon principal, a transgendered hottie and numerous karaoke sing-a-longs.... more
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Dharm
India, 2007, 103 min.
In Dharm, a four year old boy challenges the very core of a traditional Brahmin priest’s beliefs—and our faith in humanity—when it is found out that the little boy adopted by the priest is a Muslim.... more
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Disengagement
Israel, 2007, 116 min.
Veteran Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai emphasizes the human, rather than political, element in his story about an Israeli French woman (played by Juliette Binoche) who seeks reconciliation in Gaza during forced evacuations.... more
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Duska
Netherlands, 2007, 110 min.
This dark comedy tells the story an aging film critic, a stunningly beautiful cinema cashier and a Russian scrounger who comes to visit and is not likely to ever leave.... more
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The Edge of Heaven
Germany, 2007, 120 min.
Superb humanist drama, where six lives intersect in the never-ending search for love. When a tragic accident befalls his father, college professor Nejat leaves Germany for Turkey to find a young woman he feels has been wronged—raising questions about family, homeland and sexuality.... more
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Eklavya: The Royal Guard
India, 2007, 107 min.
A spectacular, majestic fort sits in a fairytale setting in Rajasthan, India with a royal family that no longer rules. Eklavya, the royal guard whose markmanship inspired legends, lives only to protect the fort, the king and the soon-to-be-revealed shocking palace secrets.... more
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Euphoria
Russia, 2006, 73 min.
Love at first sight can be a blessing and a curse, as Pasha discovers when his glance falls upon the married Vera at a wedding. Part provincial tragedy and part road movie, this is an unexpected and intense film about broken people who attempt to live life to the fullest.... more
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Exiled
Hong Kong, 113 min.
Johnnie To’s latest ‘bullet opera is a tribute to the great Sergio Leone. Five gangsters, on the final lap of their career, find themselves with conflicting missions. Knowing each other so well over the years, who will get to outsmart whom when the final shot is fired... more
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Eye in the Sky
Hong Kong, 2007, 90 min.
Johnnie To’s protégé (and frequent screenwriter) Yau Nai-hoi fashions an extremely stylish police procedural that follows new recruit “Piggy” (Kate Tsui) who is posted to a surveillance unit just in time for a complex operation against a gang of jewel thieves.... more
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Frozen
India, 2007, 110 min.
The astonishing cinematography of this most mesmerizing film conveys the harsh but hauntingly beautiful, endless snow capped landscape of winter in a small village in Ladakh where a young spirited teenager lives with her father. When the army moves in next door, their dreamlike routine is disturbe... more
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Garbage Warrior
United Kingdom, 2007, 86 min.
Maverick architect Mike Reynolds has been building sustainable housing for 30 years in New Mexico using beer cans, tires, and plastics; this film tracks his fight against state bureaucrats.... more
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Gone With the Woman
Norway, 2007, 92 min.
A fast-paced screwball comedy about a man’s first tentative steps into the potential disaster area of love, about the female monologues that pass for dialogue, and the right of modern man to decide who wears the pants in the family.... more
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Heartbeat Detector
France, 2007, 140 min.
The crimes of past generations come back to haunt a powerful corporate executive in this quietly riveting emotional drama, the effects of which will continue to resonate long after you leave the theater.... more
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Hollywood Singing & Dancing
USA, 2007, 118 min.
Hollywood Singing and Dancingis a wonderfully entertaining and comprehensive documentary about the Hollywood Musical—a celebration of song and dance that begins with the era of Busby Berkley through the highly acclaimed 2007 box office smash hit Dreamgirls.... more
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Honeydripper
USA, 2007, 122 min.
Alabama, 1950. Ty “Pine Top” Purvis (Danny Glover) hatches a plan to revive his ailing jukebox joint by hiring blues star Guitar Sam for a make-or-break show. Two tiny problems: Ty has no money and no clue how to locate Sam.... more
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Hounds
Germany, 2007, 86 min.
His mother having run off, 16-year old Lars feels even more isolated when he discovers his father is having an affair. But with the entrance of a young mute girl, it appears that his luck is about to change. A delicate blend of coming-of-age story and dysfunctional family comedy.... more
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Icon
USA, 2007, 60 min.
Filmmaker Teddy Grouya takes a fascinating look at the iconic images of the early Eastern European churches with an inspirational Romanian artist.... more
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In Memory of Myself
Italy, 2007, 89 min.
Andrea is a young man who wants to become a priest. He enters a convent in Venice and finds himself confronted with the deepness of his faith, and his curiosity about the world that surrounds him.... more
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In the Arms of My Enemy
France, 2007, 85 min.
A classic revenge drama set in 1810, Micha Wald’s visceral tale has a Cossack (Adrien Jolivet) set out on an epic chase to avenge the murder of his brother. Stunning landscapes and a near primordial attention to detail make this an unforgettable work.... more
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In the City of Sylvia
Spain, 2007, 90 min.
A young man’s return to Strasbourg, France, in search of the woman that he loved six years earlier sets the stage for the lyrical new work by Jose Luis Guerín, an homage to cinema, painting, love, and women. This luminous tale of forlorn love is a treat for romantics and people-watchers.... more
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