World Cinema

• Arnaud Desplechin
• France
• 2008
• 143min

Grief hovers over a Christmas gathering by a family as it deals with impending death and long-buried secrets. At the center is a mother, Junon, and son, Henri, the former who conce...

World Cinema

• Philippe Grandrieux
• France
• 2008
• 90min

After watching the film, a very close friend sent me an email in which she said: “Like an old folktale, your film shows us the locus from which desire is born, the renewal of the s...

World Cinema

• Ferzan Ozpetek
• Italy
• 2008
• 100min

Even though the idea of desiring another person is very fascinating to me, here it is not clear who is the victim and who the executioner. In the end, they are one and the same, an...

World Cinema

• Atom EGOYAN
• Canada
• 2008
• 101min

Once again exploring the nature of truth and reality, this time learned ones. Atom Egoyan crafts a vivid and challenging pseudo-mystery about the power of the idea. For a class ass...

World Cinema

• Lionel Baier
• Switzerland
• 2008
• 89min

The concept of pretending takes a turn for the satirical in Lionel Baier’s tale of Francois and his double life as a film critic. After relocating to the country with his girlfrien...

World Cinema

• Freddy Mas Franqueza
• Spain,Poland
• 2008
• 100min

The central relationship between Marcel and his grandfather Pascual in Freddy Mas Franqueza’s Awaking from a Dream is one that affects Marcel for his entire life. When his mother d...

World Cinema

• Juliette Garcias
• France,Denmark
• 2008
• 90min

Without marginalizing its lasting impact, Juliette Garcias explores the difficult subject of incest. A woman in Burgundy is looking for her lover. When she, and we, finally meets ...

World Cinema

• Doris Dörrie
• Germany
• 2008
• 126min

Trudi learns her husband Rudi is terminally ill and decides not to tell him. Instead she convinces him to visit their children in Berlin. Too busy to deal with aged parents, they j...

World Cinema

• Abbas Fahdel
• France,Germany
• 2008
• 95min

At the delta where the Euphrates and Tigris rivers meet sits the Mesopotamian Marshes, and it is where Mastour and Zahra grow up. They marry, but are soon separated by the outbreak...

World Cinema

• Toa Fraser
• NewZealand,UK
• 2008
• 96min

It was one of the things that attracted me to the script, in relation to my Fiji background. We don’t really think of reincarnation, you don’t talk about it in those terms, but you...