World Cinema

• Léa Pool
• Canada
• 2008
• 105min

In summer 1966, young Elise expects to wile away her days until the next school year laughing with her friends and basking in her freedom. But Elise’s summer is not destined to be ...

World Cinema

• Carl BESSAI
• Canada
• 2008
• 85min

Like Bessai’s Normal, domestic dynamics are at the heart of his latest film, one that explores the baffling, complex, and ultimately unshakeable bond between mothers and daughters....

World Cinema

• Dariusz Gajewski
• Poland,Austria
• 2008
• 94min

Young Waldemar is preparing to leave his small hometown in Poland and strike out for the West-as embodied by Vienna-and his planning takes him to see his neighbor, Mr. Kuka. He goe...

World Cinema

• Michaela Pavlatova
• Czech Republic
• 2008
• 80min

Trapped between moving forward and continuing her studies and thus jumpstarting her adulthood and remaining safe and secure in her childhood, Ofka is feeling smothered. She works a...

World Cinema

• Arsen Anton Ostojic
• Croatia
• 2008
• 100min

Former rock star Ivan is a miserable ex-soldier that lost both legs in the Croatian War of Independence. He lost his wife and his future is uncertain. When his father Izidor runs f...

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 occ...

World Cinema

• Terence Davies
• UK
• 2008
• 74min

Called a “visual poem” by director Terence Davies, Of Time and the City is both ode and elegy to Liverpool, the filmmaker’s hometown. The film is perhaps an exemplar of “docudrama,...

World Cinema

• Peter Greenaway
• Netherlands
• 2008
• 86min

Ever since Emile Zola wrote his accusatory open letter to the French president regarding the Dreyfus Affair, “J’accuse!” has been shorthand for outrage, specifically toward the pow...

World Cinema

• Gotz Spielmann
• Austria
• 2008
• 121min

The latest film by provocative Austrian director Gotz Spielmann hinges on the random connection of four lives. Alex and Tamara live in Vienna, working in the city’s seedy sex trade...

World Cinema

• Michal Rosa
• Poland
• 2008
• 89min

Like his previous social drama, What the Sun Has Seen, Rosa creates a palpable tension and realism in his latest, where his characters are once again struggling to make sense of th...