Wide Angle

• United States
• 2008
• 80min

In a U.S. election year, any campaign documentary will draw attention, but only Caroline Suh’s Frontrunners offers a fresh perspective on political life and its genesis. Following the campaign for student council president at New ...

World Cinema

• Finland
• 2008
• 98min

Matti, Erkki, and Rauno are three childhood friends that have not seen each other in years. One Christmas Eve, the trio reunites in a karaoke bar and the middle-aged men reacquaint themselves with each other, sharing joys, sorrows...

World Cinema

• 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 of, first, the Iran-Iraq war and later the Gulf W...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 13min

On a warm spring day Min-soo, a small boy, meets tall and broad-shouldered Seok-i inside a bus. Min-soo keeps looking at the intimidating boy whose sharp eyes are hidden under his baseball cap. Min-soo’s heart starts beating. What...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2008
• 88min

On an island in southern Iran, a boy named Motu lives with his mother and his aphasic sister. His father was lost at sea and his brother-in-law died the day after his wedding; ever since then Motu’s sister has not been able to spe...

Flash Forward

• Russia
• 2008
• 100min

The idea for the screenplay grew out of my realization that the individual leads a full-fledged existence so long as he has a connection with the past, which secures his path into the future. The worsening or loss of memory is a p...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania
• 2008
• 10min

A van pulls up at an intersection, where prostitute Lili is abducted and driven to a deserted beach. There, juvenile escapee Blondu and his friends embark on a power game with Lili and the van’s driver, ending with a trial.

World Cinema

• Australia,SouthAfrica
• 2008
• 120min

Nobel and Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee’s spare and searing Disgrace has been hailed as one of the defining works of post-apartheid South Africa, one that encapsulates the guilt, rage, hope, and confusion wrought by sudden soc...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2008
• 105min

Choi Moon-sun, an artist, saves the flight attendant In-soon from drowning. In-soon falls in love with Moon-sun, but Moon-sun falls in love with his childhood friend Myunghee. An adaptation of Park Gye-ju’s novel, the film shows ...

World Cinema

• Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2008
• 108min

‘The war’ will be presented through a special group of actors who view the world a bit differently than the rest. The actors are at the same time a serious and frivolous sort. The nature of their art contains something very childi...