Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2008
• 37min

A blind boy is trapped in darkness but discovers music, which opens his eyes and allows him to leave his closeted space and go out into the world.

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2008
• 75min

A taciturn loner, Behrouz, and his fast-talking cousin decide to make some money installing bootleg satellite dishes in private homes. Though a potentially lucrative business, such an activity is very dangerous and very illegal. W...

Midnight Passion

• Sweden
• 2008
• 127min

Arn grows up to become an educated young man and skilled swordsman. He meets Cecilia, the love of his life, but a cruel and jealousy world forces them apart. Cecilia is imprisoned in a convent and Arn is sent away as a Knight Temp...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania
• 2008
• 15min

On his way to a business meeting, Tudor has unexpected break of 30 minutes - long enough to have a coffee and talk about his daughter and take a picture.

Wide Angle

• France
• 2008
• 73min

If I, we the world and the universe transform indefinitely, right now I am probably the 300th incarnation of myself- Jin In production notes, documentary filmmaker Jin refers to a disconnected family, a boyfriend that self-defini...

World Cinema

• SouthAfrica,France
• 2008
• 123min

1994 was the year that marked a massive shift in South African society. It was the year of the first post-apartheid elections, and the birth of black majority rule. The time since has seen a changing, often difficult, dynamic emer...

Wide Angle

• United States,Japan
• 2008
• 75min

With all eyes on China during the Olympic Games, the status of Tibet briefly surged to the fore despite declining support ‘in the face of a gold rush into the ascendant Chinese economy.’ In her searing documentary chronicling monk...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy
• 2008
• 114min

Winner of the Palme d’Or and the film that brought the Tavianis international acclaim, Padre padrone pivots on a young Sardinian boy’s recruitment as a sheep herder and his subsequent break from his overbearing father by demanding...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2008
• 10min

A young boy is about to take his grandmother on a much-desired visit to see his mother. Since his grandmother can’t walk, he finds a little cart to carry her through the narrow alleys and passages - right up to the desolate ceme...

World Cinema

• Turkey,Belgium,France,Germany
• 2008
• 112min

Pandora’s Box is a story of alienation and isolation. It is a story of individuals whose lives have been shaped by a sterile middle-class morality. It is a story that many people, in developing and/or developed countries touched b...