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...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 90min

2008 ACF Post - Production Fund Classmates reunite at the funeral of their history teacher, Sang-tae, and talk about his bizarre life. Their recollections produce another story, and the cycle of the stories reorganizes the relati...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania
• 2008
• 23min

Marian is looking forward to watch his favorite movie of Sunday evening, but the old TV set must be fixed beforehand.

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2008
• 85min

Like Bessai’s Normal, domestic dynamics are at the heart of his latest film, one that explores the baffling, complex, and ultimately unshakeable bond between mothers and daughters. Three exemplars of the relationship are at the he...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2008
• 98min

A film about the judo sisters and their men. Yoo Ahn Soon-ae, who learned judo from her father, has never had a boyfriend. With help from her younger sister Sun-hee, she meets Na Joo-oh, but continues to be untamable after their m...

New Currents

• China
• 2008
• 150min

The film strictly follows Er Dong’s daily routine excluding any exceptional techniques or mechanism. Er Dong’s mother sends her troublesome son to a Christian missionary school. There he meets Chang’e and they leave school to live...

Wide Angle

• Netherlands
• 2008
• 9min

A young girl escapes the horrors of war by climbing into her own internal fantasy world where she is able to experience unfettered happiness. A surreal and poetic film about survival and defiance starring Sylvia Hoeks ([Duska]).

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2008
• 105min

In summer 1966, young Elise expects to wile away her days until the next school year laughing with her friends and basking in her freedom. But Elise’s summer is not destined to be so. When her mother suddenly abandons the family f...

World Cinema

• United States,Canada
• 2008
• 94min

The funeral as a moment of reconciliation and revelation is a common theme in cinema, an accessible and enlightening way to explore ethnicity and tradition. Sitting Shiva and Irish wakes are regular features in films centered on t...