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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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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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The Black Balloon
Australia, 2008, 97 min.
Thomas' father puts him in charge of his autistic brother Charlie. With the help of his new girlfriend he thinks he can handle it, but Charlie's unusual antics take them all on a wild emotional journey. The Black Balloon is a story about fitting in, discovering love and accepting your family.... more
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Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
USA, 2008, 86 min.
Joan Allen narrates this powerful film about the remarkable life of Hannah Senesh — a 23-year-old Hungarian writer living in Palestine in 1944, who volunteered for a doomed mission to try to rescue Jews in Budapest. Revelatory archival footage and moving interviews combine to great effect.... 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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Country Wedding
Iceland, 2008, 99 min.
The course of nuptial love doesn't run smoothly in this quirky comedy of errors. Two busloads of wedding-bound oddballs leave Reykjavik with barely a clue of how to find the far-flung chapel. The buses are soon seething with a hilarious tension that threatens to derail the happy couple's big day.... 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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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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The Girl from Monaco
France, 2008, 95 min.
The beautiful isle of Monaco serves as the backdrop for director Anne Fontaine's sparkling romantic comedy. A famous Parisian lawyer, unschooled in the ways of l'amour, falls for a flaky, long-legged local beauty after taking on the case of a wealthy woman who has killed her much younger lover.... 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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Heaven on Earth
Canada, 2007, 106 min.
Director Deepa Mehta (Fire, Water) offers up a complex and emotional drama in which Chand, a young bride, leaves her home in India for Ontario, her new husband Rocky, and his very traditional family.... more
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Herb and Dorothy
USA, 2008, 91 min.
Herb and Dorothy Vogel, he a postal clerk and she a librarian, through tenacity and a love for beauty, went on to collect more than 4,000 pieces of minimalist and conceptual art. Their stories make Megumi Sasaki's film endlessly fascinating.... 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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The Inheritance of War
USA, 2009, 72 min.
When Palm Desert attorney James Parkinson took on the case of a group of WWII POWs looking to sue the Japanese companies who used them as slave laborers, his life was changed forever. An eye-opening account of a little-known chapter of the war — the Bataan Death March.... more
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La Rabia
Argentina, 2008, 83 min.
In a remote Argentinean farming village, little Nati witnesses her mother having a sadomasochistic affair with the enemy of her short-tempered father, dooming two families to a path that can only end in tragedy.... more
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Maynard Dixon: Art and Spirit
USA, 2008, 67 min.
Narrated by Diane Keaton (a collector of Maynard Dixon's paintings), this painstakingly researched documentary provides a rare insight into of one of the West's most influential artists. Illustrated with more than 400 works, and featuring fascinating interviews with family and friends.... more
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Mermaid
Russia, 2007, 114 min.
Five-year-old Alisa has taken a rebellious vow of silence. When she's shipped off to a special-needs school, she channels her emotional turmoil into magical telekinetic powers. Years later, she'll meet a man who inspires her to speak again.... more
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Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's
Canada, 2008, 98 min.
School's out for the summer of 1966, but for Élise, the abrupt departure of her long-suffering mother means she'll have to care for her father and two brothers. Pool uses the perfect blend of sweet aesthetics and sorrowful subject matter to tell this poignant coming-of-age story.... more
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Native Dancer
Kazakhstan, 2008, 87 min.
Endowed with psychic powers, Aidai can find lost souls and heal the ailing. But when local gangsters drive her off her land, she's forced to put her life on the line. Part crime thriller, part spiritual journey, Native Dancer reveals the effects of encroaching capitalism on traditional ways.... more
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Pandora's Box
Turkey, 2008, 112 min.
When their aged mother goes missing near her Black Sea mountain home, a trio of neurotic Istanbul siblings come together and reopen old wounds. Like many films in this year's Festival, Pandora's Box is concerned with the way capitalism and modernity infringe on traditional life.... more
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Patrik, Age 1.5
Sweden, 2008, 100 min.
A bureaucratic blunder — in this case a misplaced punctuation mark — means that gay couple Göran and Sven's newly adopted 15-month-old cherub turns out to be a homophobic 15-year-old boy with a dubious past.... more
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Salt of This Sea
Palestine, 2008, 109 min.
Brooklyn-born Soraya decides to move to Palestine and reclaim her heritage on both spiritual and financial levels. She meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave forever.... more
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ShowGirls, Provincetown, MA
USA, 2009, 72 min.
This giddily entertaining overview of Provincetown's annual stage review scales the heights and plumbs the depths of that bucolic seaside town's legendary Monday night show, which takes place under the auspices of drag guru Ryan Landry, along with a number of his perennial drag cohorts.... more
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Snow
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2008, 100 min.
In a remote Bosnian village, wartime survivors attempt to keep the memories of their loved ones alive. But when the first snow threatens further isolation, the stage is set for a final confrontation with the outside world. Grand Prize, International Critics' Week, Cannes Film Festival.... more
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Sugar
USA, 2007, 114 min.
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's (Half Nelson) new film tells the dramatically perfect — no clichés here — story of a 19-year-old Dominican baseball pitcher trying to make it. An example of humanist filmmaking at its best, it stars newcomer Algenis Perez Soto as Sugar.... more
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Summer Heat
Netherlands, 2008, 96 min.
Actress Monique van de Ven's (Keetje Tippel) stunning directorial debut invests a haunting love story with the elements of a taut, moody thriller. Bob, a nature photographer, becomes an unwitting pawn in a labyrinthine plot involving a mysterious beauty.... more
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Sunshine Cleaning
USA, 2008, 102 min.
Alan Arkin, Amy Adams and Emily Blunt star in Christine Jeffs' edgy comedic romp about two underachieving sisters (Adams and Blunt) with a cranky, scheming father (Arkin) who decide to get into the business of "crime-scene cleanup."... more
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Tengri: Blue Heavens
Kyrgyzstan, 2008, 110 min.
Starting in a traditional Kyrgyz mountain jailoo, a yurt village where men rule and women work, Tengri offers classic lovers-on-the-run melodrama set amid spectacular widescreen backdrops.... more
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Unspoken
Belgium, 2008, 97 min.
When something truly heartbreaking happens in a family, the deepest response is often unspoken. A middle-aged Belgian couple struggle with the loss of their daughter five years on.... more
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The Wedding Song
Tunisia, 2007, 100 min.
Karin Albou's (Little Jerusalem) sophomore feature confirms her status as a rising star in the art-film firmament. The story of a Muslim girl and a Jewish girl who bond intensely during the Nazi occupation of Tunis is taboo-breaking, sensual and political, all at the same time.... more
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Who Does She Think She Is?
USA, 2008, 84 min.
Who Does She Think She Is?, a riveting documentary by Academy Award-winning producer Pamela Tanner Boll (Born into Brothels), features five bold women who navigate some of the most problematic intersections of our time.... more
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