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Showing 214 Films from the festival year 2008
Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in the West
What is there to say except "restored at last." Sergio Leone's breathtakingly beautiful and unforgettable film, as much an oper...
Paraiso Travel
Paraiso Travel
In this Colombian box office hit, a lovesick teen (Aldemar Correa) follows his seductive girlfriend as they illegally travel fr...
Picnic
Picnic
Playing
Playing
One of Brazil's most respected documentary filmmakers invited two dozen women to be filmed as they told their life stories. Mon...
Playing for Change: Peace Through Music
Playing for Change: Peace Through Music
True devotees of music's uniting power, Johnson and Walls hauled recording equipment around the world in search of great music ...
Polar
Polar
In Polar, Scott Nyerges provides an abstract rendition of the melting of the polar ice caps.
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
After more than a decade of civil wars leading to more than 250,000 deaths and one million refugees, a group of courageous wome...
Profit motive and the whispering wind
Profit motive and the whispering wind
Award winner Gianvito ferrets out the gravesites and monuments of American rebels and leftists embedded in long-forgotten lands...
Quiet Chaos
Quiet Chaos
"How to grieve" is the unexpressed question faced by Pietro, a Rome television executive (Nanni Moretti), after his wife's sudd...
Ramchand Pakistani
Ramchand Pakistani
Gorgeous colors enhance this tense tale, based on actual events, about a young Pakistani boy who, with his father, inadvertentl...
Rattlesnakes
Rattlesnakes
His boots weren't made for selling in Rattlesnakes (Skröltormar).
Redbelt
Redbelt
Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a Jiu-jitsu teacher who has avoided the prizefighting circuit by operating a self-defense stud...
Roads
Roads
A 13-year-old Arab and an Israeli ex-soldier connect in Roads.
Run for Your Life
Run for Your Life
Without one eccentric Jewish immigrant from Transylvania, the New York City Marathon simply wouldn't exist. Ehrlich's fun, lovi...
Savage Grace
Savage Grace
A daring dramatization of the disintegrating psyche of '60s socialite Barbara Baekeland, Savage Grace brilliantly showcases Jul...
Secrecy
Secrecy
In the years following September 11, the black redaction stripe has become a familiar sight to most Americans. Secrecy probes t...
Self-Portrait with Cows Going Home and Other Works - A Portrait of Sylvia Plachy
Self-Portrait with Cows Going Home and Other Works - A Portrait of Sylvia Plachy
A camera-shy photographer is the subject of Self-Portrait with Cows Going Home and Other Works - A Portrait of Sylvia Plachy.
Seven Days Sunday
Seven Days Sunday
Teenage dropouts Adam and Tommek pass their days hanging out and drinking in their grim housing complex, but as grinding boredo...
Shift
Shift
Hell hath no fury like an employee scorned in Shift (15 Minuten Wahrheit).
Sikumi
Sikumi
In Arctic Alaska, a hunter becomes a witness to murder in Sikumi.
Simple Things
Simple Things
This artfully nuanced, occasionally playful story of an anesthetist, whose daughter runs away just as he hits a rough patch wit...
Sita Sings the Blues
Sita Sings the Blues
Using a variety of colorful animation techniques, writer-director Nina Paley wittily interweaves the story of Sita, the leading...
Skeletons in the Closet
Skeletons in the Closet
The couple in Skeletons in the Closet (Skelett i garderoben) may never get the chance to remember their night together.
So Beautiful
So Beautiful
Sonia, an elderly lady, treats herself to a day at the beach. Soon she is approached by a young woman who asks her to keep an e...
Somers Town
Somers Town
Winner, Best Actors Award (Thomas Turgoose and Piotr Jagiello). A charming comedy by Shane Meadows (This Is England), built ar...