A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2008
• 90min

The person who invented birthdays probably did so with the intention of remembering and celebrating loved ones. However, those days that embody significance to certain dates can make people feel lonelier than usual. If nobody reme...

World Cinema

• 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 assignment, high school student Simon insinuates hims...

Flash Forward

• United States
• 2008
• 106min

More than ever, we are able to bear witness to all the horrible and wonderful events surrounding us on our own computers, in the safety of our own room. Robert is one such person. We are constantly being watched?or are potentially...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2008

All Around Us deserves attention in that it is the first feature film by Ryoske Hashikuchi in 7 years. He interpreted the identity and theme of queers through a more ordinary story than any other director. His much awaited new mov...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 97min

‘American Alley’ a military campsite town, continues to accept new people. The ‘entertainers’ from the Philippines and Russia, the old women who cannot leave, and the women who continue to reside there must struggle against the wo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2008
• 83min

A young porter Malek, who works at an Iran-Iraq border area, takes a fancy to a lady named Nora, who frequently entrusts him with hard tasks. After she takes advantage of his fascination, the harshly punished Malek starts to track...

Wide Angle

• Philippines
• 2008
• 20min

Six-year-old ANDONG is obsessed, and nothing, not even his mother’s disapproval and constant nagging can help curb his infatuation. When the love-of-his-life comes within reach, Andong is ecstatic. Now all he needs is twenty pes...

World Cinema

• 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 girlfriend Christine, he takes a job at a weekly lifestyle ...

Wide Angle

• Hungary
• 2008
• 95min

Made in honor of the United Nations-decreed International Year of the Planet, Another Planet explores issues of labor, prostitution and soldiering in seven stories set in Mexico, Ecuador, Congo, and Cambodia from a child’s-eye vie...

Midnight Passion

• Sweden
• 2008
• 127min

Arn grows up to become an educated young man and skilled swordsman. He meets Cecilia, the love of his life, but a cruel and jealousy world forces them apart. Cecilia is imprisoned in a convent and Arn is sent away as a Knight Temp...