2008 Movies

SYNOPSIS Albert Serra’s piece for and audiovisual tribute to Chaplin the filmmaker… What is Chaplin’s legacy in contemporary cinema? It is not about...

American engineer George Westinghouse revolutionized the American electricity system in the late 1880s with his endorsement of AC power distribution....

An appreciation of the 1988 film "Bull Durham" featuring former baseball players, broadcasters, and sports-film aficionados; it also includes an inter...

Two young Mexican attorneys attempt to exonerate a wrongly convicted man by making a documentary. In the process, they expose the contradictions of a...

Throughout history there have been legendary artifacts that have captured the imagination of adventurers everywhere. While belief in their existence s...

Ah Shui returns with her sister to a remote mountain village in Hunan (Western China) by car(an S.U.V.) and remembers episodes of her life that are re...

The action takes place in the house of cinema veterans. Life has changed in recent years. Our heroes are from a previous time. They are almost like Mo...

Four women, four cities, four unflinching stories—this powerful omnibus film weaves together the struggles of women across Indonesia, from a midwife b...

Money alone does not make you happy. This is something the newly minted millionaire Kurt Basinski finds painful when his wife leaves him. To cheer up...

Carlo, the young giraffe, goes with his dad and his cat, Crackers, to the new library for the first time. Carlo loves the library with its books and p...

This project follows various individuals as they train for and prepare to compete in the World Series of Beer Pong.

Horror short by Erik Zijlstra.

A top-secret government file, only to be viewed in the event of the President's death by assassination, gives specific instructions on what should be...

Waiting "as if for God", two Russian sailors, Marina and Sasha, look forward to the ice-free season on Lake Baikal, where they transport coal on their...

Documentary by Manoel de Oliveira filmed in 1965 and exhibited in 2008 in the Venice Film Festival.

After her beloved aunt dies, young girl Lily (Polly Dartford) finds herself clashing with the insensitive guests gathered at the wake.

Nina is a ten-year-old girl whose life dramatically changes when her father, a master Scissor Dancer, asks her to fulfill his last wish.