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,...

World Cinema

• Anna Chi
• United States,Canada
• 2008
• 94min

The funeral as a moment of reconciliation and revelation is a common theme in cinema, an accessible and enlightening way to explore ethnicity and tradition. Sitting Shiva and Irish...

World Cinema

• Steve Jacobs
• Australia,SouthAfrica
• 2008
• 120min

Nobel and Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee’s spare and searing Disgrace has been hailed as one of the defining works of post-apartheid South Africa, one that encapsulates the guil...

World Cinema

• Jan TROELL
• Sweden,Denmark,Finland,Norway
• 2008
• 111min

In Sweden in the early 1900s, in a time of social change and poverty, the young working class woman Maria wins a camera in a lottery. The camera enables Maria to see the world thro...

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 rea...

World Cinema

• Sergey Mokrizky
• Russia
• 2008
• 98min

Broken into four segments, Four Ages of Love explores love, its meaning, its sources, and the actions it inspires. Based on classical myths, the four seasons come to represent each...

World Cinema

• Souad El-bouhati
• France,Morocco
• 2008
• 84min

As a follow-up to her award-winning short film Salam, El Bouhati returns to explore displacement and identity in her first feature film. A young, happy girl Sofia, born in France t...

World Cinema

• Philippe GARREL
• France
• 2008
• 105min

At the heart of Garrel’s vaguely supernatural love triangle are Carole, an unhappy movie star, her negligent husband Ed, and photographer Francois, who becomes her lover. When thei...

World Cinema

• Courtney Hunt
• United States
• 2008
• 97min

Smuggling human cargo from Canada into the United States over the frozen St. Lawrence River is Ray, a white woman, and Mohawk Lila’s only option. Both are in dire need of fast mone...

World Cinema

• Claire Simon
• France,Belgium
• 2008
• 122min

There, free women are inventing every day a profession they have chosen, which consists in listening to other women wrestling with their freedom to love and have children now, one ...