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$5 a Day
USA, 2008, 90 min.
An aging con artist (Christopher Walken) bamboozles his estranged son into a long-distance road trip. The course of their journey provides an opportunity for the hilarious playing out of audacious scams and ultimately, filial reconciliation.... 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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Machan
Italy/Sri Lanka, 2008, 109 min.
Based on a real-life event, Machan tells the story of a group of slum dwellers on the margins of society who find an invitation to a handball tournament in Bavaria, and band together to form the unlikely Sri Lanka National Handball Team.... more
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Tulpan
Kazakhstan, 2008, 100 min.
The traditional lifestyle of nomadic sheepherders on the harsh Kazak steppe provides quietly sensational drama in Tulpan. An engrossing tale of a twentysomething youth who can't achieve his long-cherished dream of tending his own flock without first acquiring a wife... more
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Waltz with Bashir
Israel, 2008, 87 min.
A film about memory and responsibility that uses powerful animation to recreate the hallucinogenic qualities of recollection, this unique documentary shows how Lebanon is part of the Israeli psyche, its shadow, its other place.... more
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