Flash Forward

• Canada
• 2008
• 92min

Our aim was to create a production process that is in harmony with the lives of all the women depicted as well as those creating the film. Our production values reflect the cultural values of the participants, which are anchored i...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2008
• 95min

Iconic actress Anna Karina (Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou, Alphaville) steps behind the camera for the first time since 1973 for Victoria, the story of two dreaming singers accompanied on a tour of Quebec by a mysterious mute w...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2008
• 100min

This film employs an impressive technique to blur reality and fiction. The method of narration that delivers the theme ‘God’s will’ and ‘the fate of human beings’ is very extraordinary. The film consists of three major episodes. O...

World Cinema

• 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...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2008
• 94min

This experimental poetic film shows respect to Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend. The collaboration of two directors, Joshua Tong and Tian Gao, brings about ‘confusion’ like Weekend does. Driving his only possession, a red van, Yanbing Ha...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2008
• 105min

On the surface, The Vanished Empire is a traditional student love triangle drama. In reality it’s much more. In Moscow of 1974, the Soviet Union is at its zenith, and the concept that the empire won’t exist one day is a fantasy. S...

World Cinema

• 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 journey to the Baltic where Trudi unexpectedly dies...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2008
• 98min

Broken into four segments, Four Ages of Love explores love, its meaning, its sources, and the actions it inspires. Based on classical myths, the four seasons come to represent each of the stages in which the characters exist in ci...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2008
• 110min

Ten years after the handover of Hong Kong, how have the people fared. Nine directors in Hong Kong have created 9 different stories that depict their feeling interpretations of love, sentiments, Hong Kong and the motherland, China...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2008
• 117min

4BIA is a portmanteau of 4 horror stories directed by Thailand’s most talented directors. The gruesome films are dark, chilling, funny at times, and full of surprising twists and turns that are sure to send chills down your spine.