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Israel, 2008, 78 min.
A stop-motion animated film with a decided undertone of irony and wit, Tatia Rosenthal's surprising film uses puppets to bring to life a quirky set of characters inhabiting a Tel Aviv building.... more
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Adopt a Sailor
USA, 2008, 86 min.
Bebe Neuwirth, Peter Coyote and Ethan Peck (grandson of Gregory) are featured in this witty dramedy about a dysfunctional New York couple who inadvertently "adopt" a sailor during Fleet Week and find themselves changing in unpredictable ways, thanks to the presence of the young sailor.... more
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Among the Clouds
Iran, 2008, 83 min.
In southwest Iran, near the border with Iraq, a resourceful 16-year-old baggage porter becomes smitten with a slightly older Iraqi girl who's not what she seems in this bittersweet drama. Best First Feature, Fajr Film Festival.... more
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Arabian Nights
Luxembourg, 2007, 110 min.
A Luxembourg man's obsession with an Algerian woman leads to tragedy in this tightly structured story treating Westerners' misconceptions about the Arab world. Handsome young train conductor Georges becomes fascinated with passenger Yamina, and when she disappears, he is determined to find her.... more
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
Germany, 2008, 150 min.
This frantically paced epic traces the rise and fall of Germany's notorious Red Army Faction, a group of radicals who wrought mayhem on postwar Germany over the course of nearly three decades.... more
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Baghdad, Texas
USA, 2009, 93 min.
A Middle Eastern dictator, fleeing his occupied country, finds himself near the Mexican border after his plane crashes. Struck by a truck driven by three cowboys, he is taken back to their exotic game ranch where they slowly discover his identity.... more
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Before Tomorrow
Canada, 2008, 93 min.
Inuit elder Ningiuq (Madeline Ivalu) and her grandson Maniq (Paul-Dylan Ivalu) fear they are the last people on earth after a mysterious illness kills their clan. This is the debut feature from the Inuit women's group Arnalt Video Collective.... more
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Black Sea
Italy, 2008, 95 min.
A recently widowed older woman opens her Florentine apartment to a young Romanian caregiver. Seeming so different in the beginning, the women discover they have much in common and become close friends, until an unexpected event threatens their equilibrium.... more
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The Blind Sunflowers
Spain, 2008, 98 min.
The Spanish Civil War continues to haunt Spanish culture. Blind Sunflowers looks at the effect of the war on the children growing up under the Franco regime when a young boy can't quite figure out why his father lives secretly in his own house.... more
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The Blue Tooth Virgin
USA, 2008, 80 min.
When aspiring screenwriter Sam gets negative feedback on his latest opus from his best bud, the bad news infects every aspect of Sam's identity — including his marriage — forcing him to evaluate the real motivations behind his ambition.... more
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The Burning Plain
USA, 2008, 111 min.
Starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger and excellent newcomer Jennifer Lawrence, Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga's first feature relates how the sins of an earlier generation are visited upon the young and how we are all, essentially, connected.... more
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Cape No. 7
Taiwan, 2008, 129 min.
A big-hearted let's-put-on-a-show comedy centered on a despondent musician who gets his mojo back with a band of eccentric amateurs in his provincial hometown. This charmer won Best Film at the Hawaii Film Festival.... more
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Captain Abu Raed
Jordan, 2007, 105 min.
An inspiring tale of friendship and heroism, a lonely janitor at Amman's International Airport in Jordan dreams of traveling the world. When a group of neighborhood children see him wearing a discarded captain's hat, they begin regular visits to listen to his enchanting stories.... more
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Captive
Bulgaria, 2008, 80 min.
When a convoy of Russian soldiers finds itself trapped in the mountainous Chechen landscape, the commander orders two men to capture a local who knows the mountain trails and can lead them to safety. This intense contemporary war film is as much a psychological drama as it is an action picture.... more
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Cherry Blossoms
Germany, 2008, 122 min.
This profoundly moving story of marital love won the Most Popular Film Award at the Seattle Film Festival. Trudi discovers that Rudi is suffering from a terminal disease, but decides to keep it from him. Instead she plans to take a long-planned trip together to Japan to visit their son.... more
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The Class
France, 2008, 128 min.
Using digital video and a small crew, director Laurent Cantet creates an intimate, unflinching portrayal of a racially mixed classroom in a Parisian neighborhood over the course of a school year. The film's lead is played by the teacher who wrote the book on which the film is based.... more
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Cloud 9
Germany, 2008, 98 min.
Inge is in her mid-60s. She has been married for 30 years and loves her husband. But Inge is drawn to this older man Karl, already 76. It's passion. It's sex. And she suddenly feels like a young girl again.... more
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Crossing
South Korea, 2008, 106 min.
Focused on the politically sensitive issue of North Korean defectors, Crossing tells the heartrending story of a young family struggling with abject poverty. Their situation becomes so dire that the devoted father takes a chance and slips across the border.... more
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Cycles
France, 2007, 92 min.
Empty-nest syndrome packs a double whammy for Judith. Just as her son is ready to head off on his own, her Holocaust-survivor mother begins slipping into Alzheimer's. This incisive and tender first feature follows three generations of Parisian Jews as they come to grips with change.... more
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A Deal Is a Deal
United Kingdom, 2008, 95 min.
Sad-sack London Underground driver Paul (Mackenzie Crook) has had two people commit suicide beneath his train in a week. When he learns that a third within in a month would result in a handsome pension, he goes looking. Enter depressed Tommy (veteran Colm Meaney) who agrees to a deal. Or does he?... more
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Dean Spanley
New Zealand, 2008, 99 min.
Featuring a career-capping performance by Peter O'Toole and a magical mélange of fine wine, canines and eccentric behavior, Dean Spanley is a rare pleasure. Based on the book by Lord Dunsany, the film transports us to Edwardian England, with surprising tolerance for the outlandish.... more
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Delta
Hungary, 2008, 92 min.
This primal and poetic tragedy follows the unwelcome return of a prodigal son, his incestuous relationship with his half-sister, and their attempt to build themselves a house in the middle of a river, far away from everybody else, to celebrate their love.... more
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Departures
Japan, 2008, 131 min.
A failed cellist connects with his inner undertaker, his rural hometown and his newly deceased father in this tonally eccentric, lushly scored, movingly funny drama. Crushed at the breakup of his Tokyo orchestra, Daigo retreats to his picturesque northern Japan hometown, with adoring wife in tow.... more
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The Desert Within
Mexico, 2008, 112 min.
Religious fanaticism and protective love collide in this riveting odyssey of a family seeking God's forgiveness for their survival. The Desert Within, which swept the awards at the Guadalajara Film Festival, follows director Rodrigo Plá's fascinating debut film, La Zona.... more
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Dunya & Desie
Netherlands, 2008, 97 min.
A heartwarming comedy/road movie centering on the 18-year-old best friends of the title, Dunya & Desie touches on issues of family and fitting in, negotiating parental expectations, and what it means to straddle two worlds with grace and élan.... more
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Eldorado
Belgium, 2008, 80 min.
A heroin addict and the lonely car dealer whom he has just tried to burgle end up taking an eventful road trip together in actor-director Bouli Lanners' small but damn near perfectly formed seriocomedy.... more
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Em
USA, 2008, 93 min.
Josh and Amanda share a strong mutual attraction. Their instant chemistry blooms into a deeper attachment, but Josh soon realizes that his perfect mate may be more of an emotional handful than he bargained for.... more
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The English Surgeon
United Kingdom, 2007, 93 min.
A life-affirming, unforgettable portrait of London brain surgeon Henry Marsh and his humanitarian work in the Ukraine, this extraordinary documentary delivers hugely emotive subject matter with nimble delicacy and steely reserve.... more
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Eugene
USA, 2009, 85 min.
Jake Barsha's feature debut is a brilliantly disturbing psychological thriller about a lonely bachelor who befriends a young hustler and his girlfriend, with disastrous results for all involved. Strong performances support Eugene's taut script and beautiful camerawork.... more
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Everlasting Moments
Sweden, 2008, 125 min.
Veteran Swedish director Jan Troell (best known for The Emigrants, his classic from 1971) returns with this elegant, perfectly realized period family drama starring the luminous Maria Heiskanen as Maria Larsson, a pioneer of Swedish photography at the turn of the 20th century.... more
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Every Child Is Special
India, 2007, 165 min.
Dyslexic, eight-year-old Ishaan hates school and fails every subject. His teachers subject him to constant humiliation, until a new progressive teacher arrives on the scene. Winner of the 2008 Filmfare Best Movie Award, it is Aamir Khan's (Lagaan) directorial debut.... more
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Female Agents
France, 2008, 121 min.
A high-octane French action film with an all-star international cast, Female Agents is the fictionalized account of Resistance heroines who save the day for the Allies in World War II by rescuing a British geologist from occupied France before the Gestapo can force him to reveal plans.... more
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Firaaq
India, 2008, 101 min.
Nandita Das, best known for her emotionally expressive roles is also a committed social activist exploring, in this directorial debut, the emotional consequences of post-sectarian violence in the 2002 Gujarat riots. She interweaves moving stories, illuminating characters on both sides of the equatio... more
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Flowers of the Sky
Sri Lanka, 2008, 90 min.
Rani, an aging movie star who's lost her fame and fortune, ekes out a living by renting a room to modern-day film stars for their illicit affairs. When one of the affairs is unmasked, Rani is pushed back into the limelight and forced to come to terms with a dark secret from her past.... more
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Four Nights with Anna
Poland, 2008, 87 min.
This beautifully acted, gracefully told oddball story marks the welcome return of cinematic master Jerzy Skolimowski, after a self-imposed sabbatical. His exquisite new film centers on sad sack Leon, who becomes romantically obsessed with nurse Anna, whose brutal rape he witnessed.... more
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Frank the Rat
USA, 2009, 82 min.
Billy and Lisa haven't seen each other in years when Lisa shows up at Billy’s rundown Brooklyn basement apartment with a plan: Track down Frank (the titular Rat), the father they last saw 20 years ago. It's not necessarily a good plan, and it's certainly not going to go as they expect.... more
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The Garden
USA, 2008, 80 min.
This 14-acre community garden in South Central Los Angeles is the largest urban farm in the US. Rising out of the ashes of the devastating riots in '92, its creation was a testament to the resilience of the community. Then the city sold it to a developer. Best US Documentary, Silverdocs.... more
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The Gift to Stalin
Kazakhstan, 2008, 95 min.
Set against the sweeping beauty of the Kazakh steppes, Gift is the heartwarming tale of a young orphaned Jewish boy who is sent into exile during a Stalinist purge, but saved by a gruff older Muslim.... more
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Gomorrah
Italy, 2008, 137 min.
Based on the incendiary novel by Roberto Saviano and winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prize, Gomorrah is a stark and unromanticized portrait of the influential Neapolitan crime clans who secretly rule a world where the line between criminals and upstanding citizens is blurred.... more
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Goodbye Mothers
Morocco, 2007, 110 min.
Set in 1960s Morocco as the Jewish population surreptitiously immigrates to Israel in search of a better life. The sawmill owned by Brahim, a Muslim, and Henry, his Jewish business partner, is failing. Henry decides to try his luck in Israel.... more
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Goodbye Solo
USA, 2008, 91 min.
Solo (Souléymane Sy Savané), a Senegalese taxi driver living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, strikes up a relationship with a 70-year-old passenger (Red West) who is bent on suicide.... more
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The Great Buck Howard
USA, 2008, 91 min.
When Troy drops out of law school to work in showbiz, catering to the diva-like demands of a washed-up magician was hardly what he had in mind. John Malkovich revels in his hilarious, over-the-top performance as an old-school showman.... more
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Grown Ups
France, 2008, 84 min.
A single French father and his shy teen daughter discover romance — and deal with a shift in their own relationship — during a Swedish summer holiday. Debuting director Anna Novion proves an astute observer of human interactions in this wistfully charming comic drama.... more
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Heart of Fire
Kenya, 2008, 94 min.
Set in Eritrea during the last stages of the second Ethiopian civil war in the early '80s, Heart of Fire traces the story of young Awet, who is taken from a Catholic orphanage and reunited with her father, a former freedom fighter, only to be conscripted into service as a child soldier.... more
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Hooked
Romania, 2008, 84 min.
A day in the country becomes a crisis of conscience for two lovers after they hit a prostitute with their car. Presumed dead, she suddenly wakes up, and the couple lies to her about the accident. .... more
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Hope Eternal
United Kingdom, 2008, 120 min.
Scarred by years of abuse, Hope is a young Madagascan nurse who has dedicated her life to helping other abused street kids get well. Through her humanitarian efforts Hope meets Evan, a Welsh doctor who wins over both her and her daughter Bantu's heart.... more
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Hunger
United Kingdom, 2008, 96 min.
In 1981 Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican, starved himself to death as a protest against the British government. Visual artist Steve McQueen's stunning directorial debut unrelentingly depicts the last months of Sands' life in Belfast's Maze prison.... more
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I Am from Titov Veles
Macedonia, 2007, 102 min.
This neo-Chekhovian drama about three sisters stuck in a dying Macedonian town boasts surreal fantasy sequences and equally ravishing exterior scenes in which the characters are framed in disturbing industrial landscapes.... more
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In Your Absence
Spain, 2008, 98 min.
First-time director Iván Noel fashions an elegant coming-of-age tale replete with dramatic twists, set in the gorgeous hills and fields of Andalusia in southern Spain. Young Pablo, tortured by his father's death, befriends a passing adult stranger with unpredictable and tragic results for both.... more
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Jerusalema
South Africa, 2008, 118 min.
A poor boy in rural South Africa grows up to become the country's self-proclaimed Robin Hood, hijacking groups of buildings from white slumlords and offering to sell them back in exchange for improved living conditions.... more
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