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A Battle of Wits
Hong Kong, 2006, 131 min.
Set during China's Warring States period, this earthy historical epic pits the intimidating army of the Zhao Nation against the humble state of Liang. With the help of an unconventional military strategist, Liang will prove that might is no match for wits—at least until pride gets in the way.... 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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Body of War
USA, 2007, 87 min.
Veteran talk-show host Phil Donahue’s Academy Award-nominated documentary is a hardhitting indictment of governmental misuse of power focusing on one of its most courageous victims—a soldier paralyzed by a bullet five days after his arrival in Iraq.... 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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The Counterfeiters
Austria, 2007, 99 min.
This gripping drama is based on a true story about the world’s largest counterfeiting operation, which occurred in a Nazi concentration camp where inmate artisans were forced to aid the war effort.... more
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La France
France, 2007, 102 min.
Winner of the prestigious Prix Jean Vigo for spirit of independence, Serge Bozon’s La France follows WWI home-front bride Sylvie Tustud who refuses to take her husband’s “Dear John” letter sitting down and heads for the front. Described as “Bresson meets The Beatles,” the film fairly sings wi... more
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M For Mother
Iran, 2006, 112 min.
The birth of a disabled child wreaks havoc on an otherwise happy marriage in this drama. The mother, a relief worker during the Iran-Iraq war, was exposed to chemicals during a bombardment.... more
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Nanking
USA, 2007, 91 min.
A chilling chronicle of the Japanese army’s 1937 invasion and obliteration of Nanking, China, told through the letters and diaries of a handful of Western expatriates who stayed to establish a makeshift safety zone in the ravaged city, as well as testimonies of both Nanking survivors and Japanese so... more
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No End In Sight
USA, 2007, 102 min.
An excoriating survey of the U.S. policy that led to the Iraq conflict and the subsequent descent into guerilla warfare, criminality and anarchy after the fall of Baghdad because of decisions by officials with scant military experience or knowledge of the Arab world.... more
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Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
USA, 2007, 81 min.
A deeply moving documentary drawn from the letters, memoirs and fiction of U.S. personnel serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, providing a human window into America’s current conflicts, with historical perspective from established writers including Tobias Wolff.... more
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Sari's Mother
USA, 2006, 21 min.
James Longley (director of the Academy Award nominated Iraq in Fragments) follows an Iraqi mother struggling under U.S. occupation to care for her son, who is dying of AIDS.... more
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Taxi to the Dark Side
USA, 2007, 106 min.
Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) investigates the 2002 murder of an imprisoned taxi driver at a US military base, as well as the deliberately ambiguous torture policies of the Bush Administration.... more
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Those Three
Iran, 2007, 80 min.
Three AWOL soldiers lose their way in the frozen wastes of the Iranian desert, and must band together to survive. This riveting drama pits man against nature in an epic struggle. Winner, NETPAC Award, Locarno Film Festival.... more
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White Light/Black Rain
USA, 2007, 86 min.
An expansion of the Oscar-nominated short The Mushroom Club (2005), this powerful portrait draws much of its considerable power through interviews with Japanese survivors of the US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The director also speaks with some of the scientists and ... more
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