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Showing 214 Films from the festival year 2008
Before The Rains
Before The Rains
This lush period piece, set in Kerala, India at the twilight of the Raj, tracks the fraying friendship of an English spice baro...
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Beginning Filmmaking
Beginning Filmmaking
Beginning Filmmaking takes us through one year of trying to teach a preschooler how to make a film, demonstrating both the joys...
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Being Human
Being Human
Two brothers decide how to handle a medical miracle in Being Human.
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Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Entertaining and informative, Bigger goes beyond examining the truth about anabolic steroids and the athletes--professional and...
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Bitter & Twisted
Bitter & Twisted
This quirky, multidimensional drama of longing and loss starts with the death of a young man and flashes forward three years to...
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Boy A
Boy A
A former juvenile offender released from prison after 14 years reenters society with the help of his counselor. Newcomer Andrew...
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Butterfly
Butterfly
A swimmer comes out of her cocoon in Butterfly.
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Cargo
Cargo
Finally, a young boy descends into the nightmarish world of child trafficking in Cargo.
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Celia the Queen
Celia the Queen
¡Azúcar! The voice of Celia Cruz, arguably the most influential woman in Cuban music, symbolized the soul of a nation and force...
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Charly
Charly
Tramping toward the sea, 14-year-old Nicolas crosses paths with Charly, a tough girl who takes him into her mobile home, where ...
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Chevolution
Chevolution
How did the iconic image of Che Guevara end up on beer bottles and bikinis? This inquiry into the ethics and aesthetics of appr...
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Coffee Break
Coffee Break
A cop tries to impress his partner in Coffee Break (Kaffepausen).
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Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha
Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha
Melvin Van Peebles, still our most playfully inventive filmmaker after nearly 50 years, returns with a boisterous adventure tha...
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Cupcake
Cupcake
Discover if Candi gets to have her cake and eat it too in Cupcake.
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Days in Sintra
Days in Sintra
Deftly interspersing home movies with contemporary images, director Paula Gaitán creates a compelling voyage of discovery in he...
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Deconfliction
Deconfliction
Rant and reflect with Tina Highland in Deconfliction.
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Documentary Emerging Filmmaker Award Winner
Documentary Emerging Filmmaker Award Winner
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Donkey in Lahore
Donkey in Lahore
An unusual love story that follows the quixotic courtship of Brian, an ex-goth puppeteer from Australia, and Amber, the traditi...
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Dusk
Dusk
A roadside quandary causes a couple to question their morals in Dusk (La Hora Cero).
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Dying Breed
Dying Breed
Inspired by the legends of a 19th-century cannibal and an extinct tiger, this brutal horror-thriller centers on four friends wh...
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Eau Boy
Eau Boy
An unusual young man thirsts for friendship in Eau Boy.
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Eclipse
Eclipse
Eclipse is a mélange of mystical images from Mumbai.
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Eden
Eden
Winner, Best Actress Award (Eileen Walsh). Taking a frank look at the slow disintegration of a marriage during the week before...
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Elite Squad
Elite Squad
Fresh from its Golden Bear win at Berlin, and one of Brazil's most controversial films, Elite Squad is a searing look at the co...
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Empire II
Empire II
Although inspired by a monument of cinematic stasis, Andy Warhol's eight-hour Empire (1964), this new three-hour experiment is ...
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