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Showing 214 Films from the festival year 2008
Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in the West
What is there to say except "restored at last." Sergio Leone's breathtakingly beautiful and unforgettable film, as much an oper...
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Paraiso Travel
Paraiso Travel
In this Colombian box office hit, a lovesick teen (Aldemar Correa) follows his seductive girlfriend as they illegally travel fr...
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Picnic
Picnic
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Playing
Playing
One of Brazil's most respected documentary filmmakers invited two dozen women to be filmed as they told their life stories. Mon...
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Playing for Change: Peace Through Music
Playing for Change: Peace Through Music
True devotees of music's uniting power, Johnson and Walls hauled recording equipment around the world in search of great music ...
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Polar
Polar
In Polar, Scott Nyerges provides an abstract rendition of the melting of the polar ice caps.
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Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
After more than a decade of civil wars leading to more than 250,000 deaths and one million refugees, a group of courageous wome...
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Profit motive and the whispering wind
Profit motive and the whispering wind
Award winner Gianvito ferrets out the gravesites and monuments of American rebels and leftists embedded in long-forgotten lands...
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Quiet Chaos
Quiet Chaos
"How to grieve" is the unexpressed question faced by Pietro, a Rome television executive (Nanni Moretti), after his wife's sudd...
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Ramchand Pakistani
Ramchand Pakistani
Gorgeous colors enhance this tense tale, based on actual events, about a young Pakistani boy who, with his father, inadvertentl...
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Rattlesnakes
Rattlesnakes
His boots weren't made for selling in Rattlesnakes (Skröltormar).
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Redbelt
Redbelt
Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a Jiu-jitsu teacher who has avoided the prizefighting circuit by operating a self-defense stud...
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Roads
Roads
A 13-year-old Arab and an Israeli ex-soldier connect in Roads.
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Run for Your Life
Run for Your Life
Without one eccentric Jewish immigrant from Transylvania, the New York City Marathon simply wouldn't exist. Ehrlich's fun, lovi...
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Savage Grace
Savage Grace
A daring dramatization of the disintegrating psyche of '60s socialite Barbara Baekeland, Savage Grace brilliantly showcases Jul...
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Secrecy
Secrecy
In the years following September 11, the black redaction stripe has become a familiar sight to most Americans. Secrecy probes t...
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Self-Portrait with Cows Going Home and Other Works - A Portrait of Sylvia Plachy
Self-Portrait with Cows Going Home and Other Works - A Portrait of Sylvia Plachy
A camera-shy photographer is the subject of Self-Portrait with Cows Going Home and Other Works - A Portrait of Sylvia Plachy.
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Seven Days Sunday
Seven Days Sunday
Teenage dropouts Adam and Tommek pass their days hanging out and drinking in their grim housing complex, but as grinding boredo...
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Shift
Shift
Hell hath no fury like an employee scorned in Shift (15 Minuten Wahrheit).
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Sikumi
Sikumi
In Arctic Alaska, a hunter becomes a witness to murder in Sikumi.
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Simple Things
Simple Things
This artfully nuanced, occasionally playful story of an anesthetist, whose daughter runs away just as he hits a rough patch wit...
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Sita Sings the Blues
Sita Sings the Blues
Using a variety of colorful animation techniques, writer-director Nina Paley wittily interweaves the story of Sita, the leading...
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Skeletons in the Closet
Skeletons in the Closet
The couple in Skeletons in the Closet (Skelett i garderoben) may never get the chance to remember their night together.
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So Beautiful
So Beautiful
Sonia, an elderly lady, treats herself to a day at the beach. Soon she is approached by a young woman who asks her to keep an e...
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Somers Town
Somers Town
Winner, Best Actors Award (Thomas Turgoose and Piotr Jagiello). A charming comedy by Shane Meadows (This Is England), built ar...
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