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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
Marcela
Ends: 12:10pm
Marcela
Helena Trestikova spent twenty-six years chronicling the often tragic life of Marcela—whom we first meet in Czechoslovakia as a young bashful bride stealing puffs on a cigarette and looking for all the world like a refugee from American Bandstand circa 1965—and the result is a striking example of the raw power of documentation.
GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts
Ends: 3:10pm
GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts
A riveting and intimate profile of the preeminent composer Philip Glass at work and at play, crafted in contrasting tones, from the comical to the profound.
Of Shadows and Men / Sally Gross - The Pleasure of Stillness
Ends: 6:30pm
Of Shadows and Men
In this lovely short film, the centuries-old practice of Chinese shadow plays emerges as the forefather of cinema.
Sally Gross - The Pleasure of Stillness
This film chronicles avant-garde dancer and choreographer Sally Gross's fifty-year career with breathtaking archival performance footage and follows her for eight months as she prepares her newest piece, The Pleasure of Stillness.
The Axe in the Attic
Ends: 12:45pm
The Axe in the Attic
Filmmakers Ed Pincus and Lucia Small embark on a cross-country road trip to interview evacuees displaced by Hurricane Katrina and in the process reveal a great deal about themselves.
Beginning Filmmaking / Summerchild
Ends: 3:50pm
Beginning Filmmaking
For her fourth birthday, a filmmaker father surprises his daughter with a video camera and the complications inevitable to both parenting and filmmaking ensue.
Summerchild
Eleven-year-old Svetlana lives in a children's home in Karelia, Russia, but she will spend what promises only at first blush to be an idyllic summer in Finland with host parents.
Holding Fast / Daughters of Wisdom
Ends: 6:45pm
Holding Fast
This lyrical observation of a Tibetan refugee center in Darjeeling, India indelibly blends music and image.
Daughters of Wisdom
For the first time, cameras are invited into the Kala Rongo Monastery, home to a vibrant and resilient community of Tibetan Buddhist nuns.
Lucio
Ends: 9:40pm
Lucio
Lucio, a seventy-five-year-old Spanish anarchist, recounts his exploits as a "good bandit" who swindled twenty-five million dollars from the First National Bank (now CitiBank) in support of radical social movements.
Observando el cielo / Paradise – Three Journeys in this World
Ends: 12:05am
Observando el cielo (Observing the Sky)
An experimental film about the movement of the night sky.
Paradise - Three Journeys In This World
A lyrical exploration of the fragile hopes and harsh realities of African immigrant journeys to Spain.
The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories
Ends: 12:20pm
The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories
Along the Danube in northern Bulgaria lies the sleepy and mosquito-ridden town of Belene, where the residents hold on to hopes of an atomic future, but are unable to deal with their troubled past.
Salim Baba / The Horseman
Ends: 3:50pm
Salim Baba
On the streets of Kolkota, India, Salim Baba runs a "cinema cart" with a one-hundred-year-old hand-cranked projector. Children trail this enchanting relic of an earlier age for a glimpse of a flickering magical world." 145,"In Swaziland, a country ravaged by AIDS, elderly women—or "gogos"(grandmothers)—take care of children
The Horseman
This is the story of Stig-Anders, a truly old-fashioned farmer whose epic love for his horses and the remote Swedish village they call home represents the last of a dying breed.
William Greaves Career Award
Begins: 5:00pm
Ends: 6:30pm
Full Frame honors the work of pioneering filmmaker William Greaves.
Breadmakers / Alone in Four Walls
Ends: 9:15pm
Breadmakers
A brief and loving portrait of the Garvald Bakery, where a devoted team of workers with learning disabilities prepare breads for all of Edinburgh.
Alone in Four Walls
Teenage boys in a Russian prison tell their stories under a sympathetic yet incisive gaze.
City of Cranes / Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!
Ends: 12:00am
Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!
Fusing hypnotic visual aesthetics with satirical humor, Tehran Has No More Pomegranates embraces the documentary tradition of the city symphony for a wry look at Tehran's cultural and political history.
City of Cranes
Crane operators offer us an unparalleled view of London as their huge, graceful machines sweep and pluck above the city's skyline.
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
Ends: 12:55pm
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
The melancholy world of Chechnya, divided into three rooms, each an elegiac portrayal of a land without spirit. The elegant score and powerful imagery draw you into these spaces that few would want to inhabit.
Award Winner Rescreening 02: The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Ends: 5:45pm
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Exquisitely photographed over twenty-three years, this epic film follows one family of Laotian refugees who escaped the ravages of the Vietnam War to resettle in the United States.
The Tingler
Ends: 8:10pm
The Tingler
This 1959 genre classic pits megalomaniacal, LSD-dropping scientist Vincent Price against the underwhelming eponymous monster, a parasitic(rubber) worm that lies dormant in everyone's spine until paralyzing fear awakens it.