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2008 Films
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Categories
- New Docs
- Special Programming
- Career Award: William Greaves
- Curated Series: Migrations
- Sidebar: Inhabiting Space
- Party
- Panel / Workshop
Blindsight
Ends: 12:40pm
Blindsight
Inspired by renowned blind mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer's miraculous ascent to the top of Mount Everest, a group of teenagers from Braille Without Borders in Tibet join him on a physically and emotionally demanding adventure to one of the mountain's highest peaks.
Forbidden Lie$
Ends: 3:20pm
Forbidden Lie$
The life and deceptions of a con artist, Norma Khoury, who wrote a "non-fiction" best-seller about an honor killing in Jordan.
Up the Yangtze
Ends: 6:15pm
Up the Yangtze
This film takes the viewer on a poignant farewell tour of the Yangtze River, meeting some of the two million inhabitants of shoreline villages who will lose their homes when the Three Gorges Dam is completed.
Opening Night Film: Trumbo
Ends: 10:15pm
OPENING NIGHT FILM: Trumbo
Legendary blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is perhaps best known for his work on Spartacus and Roman Holiday. This eloquent film, based on the play by his son Christopher Trumbo, brings together a remarkable group of actors to read from the screenwriter's famously candid letters, thus revealing a man of great courage, integrity, and wit.
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Ends: 12:20am
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York's Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they're making. This wildly innovative landmark remains one of the most tightly focused and insightful movies ever made about making movies.
My Daughter the Terrorist / To See If I'm Smiling
Ends: 12:25pm
My Daughter the Terrorist
This rare, inside portrait of two young female Tamil Tigers provides sobering insight into the psychology and motivations of people who are firmly committed to a life of terrorism.
To See If I'm Smiling
Female Israeli soldiers recall their mandatory military service in the Occupied Territories and reveal the real horror of war: it corrupts and destroys everyone it touches.
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
Ends: 3:20pm
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
A superb chronicle of the life and times of world-renowned African American Nobel Peace Prize Winner and United Nations statesman Ralph Bunche, who not only pioneered the organization's peacekeeping and conflict resolution strategies, but was also one of the leading advocates of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
Ends: 6:25pm
Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
An exhilarating synthesis of interviews, archival footage, and striking personal testimony provide an in-depth look at body image in America and the increasing role of performance enhancing drugs in Americans' quixotic search for perfection.
CENTER FRAME: The Black List
Ends: 9:30pm
CENTER FRAME: The Black List
In this film directed by famed portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Elvis Mitchell conducts riveting interviews with twenty prominent African American artists, CEOs, politicians, and activists. Chris Rock, Vernon Jordan, Toni Morrison, the Rev. Al Sharpton, and others reflect, often humorously, on what it means to be on the "blacklist."
Infinite Justice / Full Battle Rattle
Ends: 12:15am
Infinite Justice
This darkly whimsical short film reconstructs scenes from the Iraq War using action figures and war toys.
Full Battle Rattle
In a fake village secluded deep within the Mojave Desert, the U.S. army enlists thousands of role-players, including over two hundred Iraqi exiles, to help train soldiers soon to be deployed to Iraq.
The Fight
Ends: 12:30pm
The Fight
This extraordinary fight movie, starring Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, tracks Ali's first effort to reclaim his heavyweight title from Joe Frazier after it was stripped from him because of his radical politics.
CENTER FRAME: Body of War
Ends: 3:15pm
CENTER FRAME: Body of War
Body of War chronicles the physical and mental struggles of soldier Thomas Young after he returns home from Iraq paralyzed by a bullet to his spine. Now in a wheelchair, he painfully and courageously transforms himself into an anti-war activist, traversing the country to speak out for peace.
Encounters At the End of the World
Ends: 5:45pm
Encounters at the End of the World
In his first documentary since Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog travels to the farthest point of Antarctica to film a group of over a thousand unwavering individuals who battle unimaginable conditions in search of scientific discovery.
Man on Wire
Ends: 9:25pm
Man on Wire
In 1974, young Frenchman Philippe Petite spent an hour balancing on a high wire suspended between the new Twin Towers of the World Trade Center before being hauled off by police. Through meticulous recreations and intimate interviews with all involved, this moving film unveils the intricate preparations for what was to become the "artistic crime of the century."
El cielo gira
Ends: 12:50am
El cielo gira (The Sky Turns)
The filmmaker travels to the village in Northern Spain where she was born to produce this breathtakingly beautiful meditation on place. Just as she thinks the village is on the brink of extinction, she finds it renewed by a wave of new migrants.
La Corona / Please Vote for Me
Ends: 12:30pm
La Corona (The Crown)
Four inmates compete fiercely for the crown in the annual beauty pageant of a Bogotá women's prison.
Please Vote For Me
When third graders in rural China elect a class monitor, three determined aspirants and their crafty parents plot strategies and devise dirty tricks for victory.
Flow: For Love of Water
Ends: 6:00pm
Flow: For Love of Water
This timely film offers a terrifying portrait of the growing scarcity and misuses of the world's most essential resource: water.
Award Winner Rescreening 05: Trouble the Water
Ends: 9:15pm
Trouble the Water
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Ninth Ward resident Kimberly Roberts turns on her video camera and so begins an inspiring story of heroism and resilience.