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 powerful. Peter Greenaway, whose Nightwatching told t...

Wide Angle

• Helena Třeštíková
• Czech Republic
• 2008
• 83min

Rene is an attempt to portray some other form of life and to contrast our fast-paced era with the time-free life that exists in prison. It is an attempt to make a decent film that hopefully will confirm the uniqueness and viabilit...

Wide Angle

• Kwang ju SON
• Korea
• 2008
• 20min

2008 Busan HD Project The main character meticulously maps out a schedule to complete her thesis, but trivial things bother her and get in the way. The clock seems to tick faster and she feels more and more pressed for time... T...

Special Programs in Focus

• Anurag KASHYAP
• India
• 2008
• 110min

Targeting the global market, the Indian animation industry is constructing a brand of ‘Indian animation’ by adopting various subjects from India’s historical, religious, and cultural traditions. Return of Hanuman begins with a ba...

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. Robert and Susannah live in the idyll of the cou...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• HE Jianjun
• China
• 2008
• 87min

The film River People is a combination of documentary and fiction, telling a story of a family living on the Huanghe River in Shanxi province in China. Laba and Baowa are cousins and best friends. For them, the boat is home and a ...

New Currents

• Hongqi Li
• China
• 2008
• 80min

Sociological contemplation about awkwardness. Long conversation about a couch, Routine Holliday is a film which can be explained by a simple single line, but at the same time cannot be explained properly. On a national holiday, so...

Flash Forward

• 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 money, she meets Emad. Unlike Soraya, he is trying...

World Cinema

• Tonino Zangardi
• Italy,Germany
• 2008
• 105min

A woman, Martine, leaves her apartment and walks into a series of minor disasters that make up her day. Those comprise a bag mishap that results from the rain, a bank robbery, and a fatal police shooting-her own. Leonardo, the cop...

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 their surroundings. A couple contentedly married fo...