2008

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Getting lost is the only way to find yourself.

Season:
2008
Director:
Naomi Kawase
Cinematography:
Hideyo Nakano
Cast:
Shigeki Uda, Machiko Ono, Makiko Watanabe, Kanako Masuda, Yoichiro Saito
Editor:
Yuji Oshige, Tina Baz
Producer:
Naomi Kawase
Executive Producer:
Hengameh Panahi
Language:
Japanese w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Masamichi Shigeno

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A story that starts where other romantic comedies end...

Ida is the ideal woman. She?s still as hot as she was when she was twenty. She is an ambitious architect and loving mum, and she takes a great deal of responsibility at both home and work. It is far from easy to find time for everything when she gets promoted.

Mathias is the ideal man?funny, handsome in a shabby way and a great dad. But he?s also a bit sloppy and never quite seems to finish things he initiates. Unfortunately, he does not always think ahead and buys a sailing boat without asking for permission.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Eva F. Dahr
Cinematography:
Tore Vollan
Cast:
Pia Tjelta, Torbjørn Harr, Jon Øigarden, Helena af Sandeberg, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Henriette Steenstrup, Silje Torp Færavaag, Marte Engebrigtsen
Editor:
Perry Eriksen
Producer:
Silje Hopland Eik, Tanya Badendyck
Language:
Norwegian w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Comedy
Music:
Ginge Anvik

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One woman?s life changes tempo as she gyrates along the streets of Prague in search of fulfillment.

?Proudly humanistic at a time when such fare plays against the prevailing grain of cynical hipness, Alice Nellis' distinctive third feature, strikes a pitch-perfect note of benevolent mischief as it tracks the mellow mid-life crisis of a bemused Prague housewife in an evolving city.? ? Variety

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Alice Nellis
Cinematography:
Ramunas Greicius
Cast:
Iva Bittova, Ivan Franek, Martha Issova, Miloslav Koenig
Editor:
Adam Dvorak
Producer:
Jan Svěrák
Language:
Czech w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Buty

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They?re the most loving, harmless elderly robbers you will ever meet.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Gábor Rohonyi
Cinematography:
Péter Szatmári
Cast:
Emil Keres, Teri Földi, Judit Schell, Zoltán Schmied, Djoko Rosić, Péter Barbinek, Péter Horkay
Editor:
István Király
Producer:
Mónika Mécs, Ernő Mesterházy
Executive Producer:
Károly Fehér
Language:
Hungarian w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Comedy
Music:
Gábor Madarász

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Iska longs for a place free of the poverty and pain she has known her entire life.

Season:
2008
Director:
Csaba Bollók
Cinematography:
Francisco Gózon
Cast:
Mária Varga, Rózsika Varga, Marian Rusache, Marius Bodochi, Zsolt Bogdán, Ágnes Csere, Ibolya Csonka, János Derzsi, Noémi Fodor, Dan Tudor
Editor:
Judit Czakó
Producer:
Ágnes Csere
Language:
Hungarian w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Balázs Temesvári

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Cezanne said all art is in the details. When it comes to dealing with a powerful and crafty art thief, a young idealist better have all the details right.

One night, with his girlfriend?s video camera, Francis records the theft of a highly valued Italian painting from the church where his father is the organist. Afterward Francis contacts the thief, a well-respected art dealer named Benedict, and declares he?s not after any cash payoff; he only wants the painting returned to its rightful place in the church. Otherwise, he?ll go to the authorities with the evidence.

Season:
2008
Director:
Stanislaw Mucha
Cinematography:
Krzystof Ptak
Cast:
Rafal Fudalej, Kamilla Baar, Wojciech Pszoniak, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Grzegorz Artman, Jan Frycz, Jerzy Trela, Dominika Ostalowska
Editor:
Jacek Tarasiuk, Peter Przygodda
Producer:
Reinhard Brundig, Raimond Goebel, Zbigniew Domagalski
Language:
Polish w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Max Richter

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When a life-long friendship is strong and true, not even death can intervene.

Longtime workmates and pals Zhao and Liu Quanyou are enjoying a drink together, engaged in their usual banter, when Liu falls strangely silent. Zhao tries to re-energize the conversation before suddenly realizing that his friend has died. Although there was no time for Liu?s last wishes, Zhao knows there is only one honorable thing to do and that is to take his friend home.

Season:
2008
Director:
Zhang Yang
Cinematography:
Yu Lik Wai, Lai Yiu Fau
Cast:
Zhao Benshan, Hong Qiwen, Song Dandan, Guo Degang, Hu Jun, Sun Haiying, Xia Yu, Wu Ma
Editor:
Yang Hongyu
Producer:
Stanley Tong, Er Yang, Zhang Yang, Harvey Wong, Liu Qiang
Language:
Mandarin w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Comedy, Drama

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All dreams are black and white.

?Spiders' legs brushing against naked skin. Unexplained noises in the dark. A hypodermic needle getting closer and closer. A dead thing trapped in a bottle of formaldehyde. A growling dog running and on the hunt. A big empty house creaking.?

Season:
2008
Director:
Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire
Editor:
Céline Kélépikis
Producer:
Valérie Schermann, Christophe Jankovic, Denis Friedman, Vincent Tavier, Philippe Kauffmann
Language:
French w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Animation
Music:
Rene Aubry, Boris Gronemberger, Laurent Perez del Mar, George Van Dam

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A man faints and awakens in another town as an eight-year-old boy.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Iván Ávila Dueñas
Cinematography:
Ciro Cabello, Alejandro Cantú
Cast:
Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Jostein Roustand, Enoc Leaño, Flor Payán, Jorge Zárate, Joaquín Cosío
Editor:
Elena Pardo, Pedro Jiménez
Producer:
Iván Ávila Dueñas
Executive Producer:
Elsa Reyes
Language:
Spanish w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Drama/Fantasy

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Retirement can be a whole lot more fun than you think.

Director Jan Sverak astounded audiences with the Academy Award®-winning Kolya. With Empties, Sverak and his father Zdenek Sverak, writer-actor and collaborator, craft a bittersweet comedy about the antics of Josef, a cantankerous old horndog who retires from his life as a literature professor?primarily because he no longer understands his pupils.

Season:
2008
Director:
Jan Svěrák
Cinematography:
Vladimír Smutný
Cast:
Zdeněrk Svěrák, Daniela Kolářová, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Jiří Macháček
Editor:
Alois Fi?árek
Producer:
Eric Abraham
Language:
Czech w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Comedy
Music:
Ondřej Soukup
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