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Showing 214 Films from the festival year 2008
Everywhere at Once
Everywhere at Once
Renowned photographer Peter Lindbergh and experimental filmmaker Holly Fisher, with actress Jeanne Moreau, weave a tapestry of ...
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Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Outside the French Quarter is a lively, long-entrenched neighborhood most tourists never see. Enlightening and informative, Fau...
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Feathers To The Sky
Feathers To The Sky
An inspirational teacher is the impetus for 10-year-old Tamara in Feathers to the Sky.
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Fermat's Room
Fermat's Room
The walls are closing in-literally-on four brainiac mathematicians with shadowy pasts in this über tense debut. These strangers...
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Fighter
Fighter
This high-energy martial arts drama chronicles a driven high school student caught between the expectations of her traditional ...
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Finding Amanda
Finding Amanda
In Tolan's (co-creator, Rescue Me) hysterical feature directing debut, a successful TV writer (Matthew Broderick) struggles wit...
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Fire Under the Snow
Fire Under the Snow
Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso spent 33 years being tortured and starved in Chinese prisons. He watched his nation ruined and his c...
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Football Under Cover
Football Under Cover
When the members of a Berlin women's football team (we call it "soccer") learn to their surprise that they have counterparts in...
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For Tomorrow: The First Step of the Revolution
For Tomorrow: The First Step of the Revolution
Meet the unselfish shoe droppers in For Tomorrow: The First Step of the Revolution.
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From Within
From Within
Evil comes from within in this smart, supernatural thriller, set in a small extremist evangelical town that is mysteriously aff...
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GIFT OF FIRE Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
GIFT OF FIRE Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
Cutting edge artist Ken Jacobs re-imagines inventor Louis Le Prince's nineteenth-century motion picture experiments in GIFT OF ...
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God Only Knows
God Only Knows
A young mother is torn between love and a better life in God Only Knows.
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God's Beach
God's Beach
Cycles of life and death intersect in 48 hours for the young woman in God's Beach.
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Going on 13
Going on 13
Ariana, Isha, Rosie, and Esme are young girls who are followed for four years as they navigate the precarious path to womanhood...
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Goldfish
Goldfish
Two third-graders embark on a mission in Goldfish.
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Good Boy
Good Boy
Surviving the slums of Rio is a challenge for a boy and his mom in Good Boy (Bom Garoto).
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Gotta Dance
Gotta Dance
Festival vet Berinstein (ShowBusiness, TFF '05) tells the inspirational story of the New Jersey NETSationals, the NBA's first s...
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Great Genius and Profound Stupidity
Great Genius and Profound Stupidity
Director Benita Raphan "explores the twin concepts of genius and stupidity," focusing primarily on deaf and blind Helen Keller ...
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Green Porno
Green Porno
These short shorts-conceived, written, directed by, and featuring Isabella Rossellini (who co-directed with Jody Shapiro)-provi...
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Guest of Cindy Sherman
Guest of Cindy Sherman
Analyzing his relationship with reclusive artist Cindy Sherman leads videographer Paul H-O to confront his own ego and identity...
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Gunnin' for That #1 Spot
Gunnin' for That #1 Spot
Rucker Park. The mecca for all street basketball players. In Beastie Boy Yauch's super-energized documentary, eight of the coun...
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Harvest 3000 Years
Harvest 3000 Years
Martin Scorsese, who chose this masterpiece of African cinema as one of the initial projects for his World Cinema Foundation, h...
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Have You Ever Heard About Vukovar?
Have You Ever Heard About Vukovar?
An emotional collision occurs for an American soldier and his Croatian driver in Have You Ever Heard about Vukovar?
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Head Wind
Head Wind
The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran does its best to restrict its citizens' access to information and media from the...
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Heartbeats
Heartbeats
Fannie reflects on past choices the night before leaving the parental nest in Heartbeats (Hartslagen).
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