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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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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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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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The Forgotten Woman
Canada, 2008, 90 min.
This extraordinary documentary, set in India, aims to understand the destitution and marginalization of many of the millions of widows in India today, who are forced by age-old traditions to live out their remaining years isolated from and shunned by the society at large.... 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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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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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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Jolene
USA, 2008, 118 min.
Based on a short story by E. L. Doctorow (Ragtime), Jolene is the tale of a young woman's 10-year odyssey traveling cross-country in search of love and independence.... more
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My Marlon and Brando
Turkey, 2008, 92 min.
The true-life border-crossing romance between a Turkish actress and her Kurdish lover gets a semi-fictional work-up with the real actress earning kudos for taking on her own role. A moving statement on war, human rights and the confining artificiality of borders.... 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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This Dust of Words
USA, 2008, 60 min.
A prodigiously creative intellectual with a 200 IQ, Elizabeth Wiltsee was a voracious reader, a voluminous writer and a standout student at Stanford University. Decades later, she was homeless, her beautiful mind ravaged by mental illness.... 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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