World Cinema

• Tatia Rosenthal
• Israel,Australia
• 2008
• 78min

Animator Tatia Rosenthal’s stop motion feature is about the meaning of life. An ad boasting all the answers you could possibly need-for under ten dollars-peaks the interest of Dave Peck. Dave is twenty-eight years old, lives at ho...

World Cinema

• Claire Denis
• France,Germany
• 2008
• 100min

Director Claire Denis returns with one of the most accessible, characteristically incisive films of her career. A widowed man, Lionel, and his daughter Josephine, are at the center of a larger story about a group of France’s worki...

World Cinema

• Ronit Elkabetz,Shlomi Elkabetz
• Israel,France
• 2008
• 107min

The mourning ritual is like a show. Grief is staged and the mourner expresses his grief before the community. The mourner does not express sorrow in the same way when he or she is alone. You must show your grief to your community ...

World Cinema

• Kristina Buožyte
• Lithuania
• 2008
• 84min

In the aftermath of her father’s traumatizing death, Gaile, a children’s speech therapist, finds herself unable to feel any kind of emotion. But when a series of videotaped events-increasingly aggressive and hideous-stoke dormant ...

World Cinema

• Freddy Mas Franqueza
• Spain,Poland
• 2008
• 100min

The central relationship between Marcel and his grandfather Pascual in Freddy Mas Franqueza’s Awaking from a Dream is one that affects Marcel for his entire life. When his mother dumps him in a small Spanish town with his grandfat...

World Cinema

• Arash T. Riahi
• Austria,France
• 2008
• 110min

Based on several true stories set in Vienna, Kurdistan, and Turkey, For a Moment, Freedom hinges on the simple yet sometimes nightmarish trials of a group of refugees trying to reach what amounts to a holy land: Liberty. In one ep...

World Cinema

• Emily Atef
• Germany
• 2008
• 99min

In almost every society in the world lies the belief that the birth of a child is the zenith of womanhood, and that all women naturally embrace inborn maternal instincts. In Emily Atef’s assured drama, Rebecca and Julian experienc...

World Cinema

• Rodrigo Plá
• Mexico
• 2008
• 112min

In the endless quest for redemption that is really the inability of Elias’ character to forgive others and himself, religious guilt is shown to be the detonator of obsession and madness. And in the damage done to this family micro...

World Cinema

• Raoul Ruiz
• France,Chile
• 2008
• 87min

Based on a story by Honore de Balzac, the esoteric and prolific Raoul Ruiz turns his camera to genre filmmaking with his latest, a horror film about an old house and its former occupants. In the late 1930s, William James, a wealth...

World Cinema

• Kornél MUNDRUCZÓ
• Hungary,Germany
• 2008
• 92min

I tried to understand the kind of freedom that allows someone to transcend the norm, rather than talk about sexual deviance. It is not the incest that is at the heart of the story, but the courage it takes to accept what is a natu...