Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2008
• 122min

The common distinction between superheroes of the Philippines is that they happen to posse abilities to transform as superheroes. They were not born as superheroes or came from outer space, but accidentally found some certain obje...

Open Cinema

• Thailand
• 2008
• 137min

This is a new work of Nonzee Nimibutr, who has been successful at making blockbuster films that are both local and global at the same time. Four hundred years ago, the Kingdom of Langkasuka is threatened by rebels led by Prince Ra...

Flash Forward

• 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 that is explained when he’s told he’s had a strok...

World Cinema

• 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

• Korea
• 2008
• 10min

An old woman survives financially by picking up rubbish and waste. One day, within the waste, she finds a baby inside a box. She becomes attached to the baby as they have things in common. Will the old lady choose the box or the ...

World Cinema

• Belgium,France,Italy
• 2008
• 105min

As an Albanian immigrant living in Belgium, Lorna is trapped in a static life. Unable to feel completely secure, she is married to a Belgian junkie, Claudy, and falls into a scheme with a local gangster that she hopes will secure ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy
• 2008
• 105min

As WWII draws to a close, a small Italian town is threatened with German occupation and decides to evacuate. This is a simple story that tracks a group of villagers and their priest, lost in the proverbial wilderness of their own ...

Wide Angle

• 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...

World Cinema

• Argentina,the Netherlands,France,Spain,Germany
• 2008
• 84min

Like director Alonso’s Los Muertos, Liverpool is a mostly silent, languid journey of the self. Set on the southernmost tip of Argentina, the film shifts in a career sailor, Farrel, going home after two decades away, to the mountai...

World Cinema

• 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,” as Davies has meticulously cut together his foot...