Flash Forward

• Steve Mcqueen
• UK
• 2008
• 96min

Hunger for me has contemporary resonance. The body as site of political warfare is becoming a more familiar phenomenon. It is the final act of desperation; your own body is your la...

Flash Forward

• Froukje Tan
• the Netherlands
• 2008
• 83min

If you could only use one side of your brain, how would reality be altered?if at all? That is the central dilemma for Dexter, a young man with a seemingly mounting mass of problems...

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• Annemarie Jacir
• France,Palestine,Switzerland,Belgium,United States,UK,Spain,the Netherlands
• 2008
• 109min

Twenty-eight-year-old Soraya, born and raised in Brooklyn, makes the decision to return to her ancestral home in Palestine. In Ramallah while trying to recover her exiled family’s ...

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• Bakur Bakuradze
• Russia
• 2008
• 100min

The idea for the screenplay grew out of my realization that the individual leads a full-fledged existence so long as he has a connection with the past, which secures his path into ...

Flash Forward

• Jens Jonsson
• Sweden
• 2008
• 107min

The latest entry into the offbeat Scandinavian cinema sub-genre, The King of Ping Pong is a typically quirky, low-key tragicomedy. Brothers Rille and Erik are polar opposites: one ...

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• Paolo Taviani,Vittorio Taviani
• Italy
• 2008
• 188min

This anthology based on the stories of Sicilian writer Luigi Pirandello?a precursor to Beckett and Ionescu?is as close to genre filmmaking as the Tavianis ever strayed, and a warm,...

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• Paolo Taviani,Vittorio Taviani
• Italy
• 2008
• 114min

Winner of the Palme d’Or and the film that brought the Tavianis international acclaim, Padre padrone pivots on a young Sardinian boy’s recruitment as a sheep herder and his subsequ...

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• Paolo Taviani,Vittorio Taviani
• Italy,France,Germany
• 2008
• 118min

Spanning two centuries of Italian history, Fiorile slots in seamlessly with the Taviani brothers career-long fixation with the working class and the power of wealth to corrupt. Whi...

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• Paolo Taviani,Vittorio Taviani
• Italy,France
• 2008
• 98min

Four people?Edoardo, Carlotta, Ottone, and Ottilia?staying in an early twentieth century Tuscan villa are confronted by strong emotions and questions about themselves. A year into ...

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• Vittorio Taviani,Paolo Taviani
• Italy,France,Bulgaria,Spain,UK
• 2008
• 122min

The activist Tavianis address the Armenian genocide in The Lark Farm, one of very few films to do so (Atom Egoyan’s Ararat comes to mind). In 1915, the affluent Akavians are readyi...