FILMS
- Black Belt
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Three karate students (played by real-life masters in brutal fight sequences free of special effects) tangle with vicious military police in 1930s Japan in this thinking person’s martial arts drama. Who to obey, the sensei or your sense of justice?
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- Shunichi Nagasaki
- World Cinema
- Japan
- 2007
- Brick Lane
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A Muslim woman navigates a loveless arranged marriage, an affair with a radical youth and post-9/11 racism in London in this elegant adaptation of Monica Ali’s debut novel, one of Britain’s most acclaimed works of fiction in years.
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- Sarah Gavron
- New Directors
- England
- 2007
- Cachao: Uno Más
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In this valentine to the legendary Cuban bassist Israel “Cachao” López, the unstoppable Cachao leads a raucous all-star Latin jam session, featuring saxophonist Justo Almario, drummer John Santos and violinist Federico Britos.
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- Dikayl Rimmasch
- Spotlight: Cinema by the Bay
- USA
- 2008
- Calavera Highway
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Seven Mexican American brothers confront a history haunted by their mother’s estrangement from her family, and the specter of a long-missing father. As they delve into their pasts, they find unexpected answers to questions about their family and themselves.
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- Renee Tajima-Peña
- Documentaries
- USA
- 2007
- Calcutta My Love
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Young Animesh comes to Calcutta to study but finds his life oscillating between the love of the beautiful Madhabilata and his dedication to a radical political movement, in this richly detailed window on a turbulent period in the making of modern India.
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- Goutam Ghose
- World Cinema
- India
- 2007
- Children of the Sun
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As unwitting subjects in a great social experiment, children of the Israeli kibbutzim grew up knowing only we, never I. Decades later, intercut with rare home movies, they reflect on the idylls and the agonies of being raised en masse.
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- Ran Tal
- Documentaries
- Israel
- 2007
- Cloud Eye Control and Anna Oxygen
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Performance collective Cloud Eye Control (Chi-wang Yang, Miwa Matreyek and Anna Oxygen) fuses animation, experimental theater, pop music and puppetry into a live lo-fi spectacle like nothing you’ve seen. Following three narrative pieces, Oxygen leads everyone in an interactive aerobics workout.
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- Miwa Matreyek, Chi-wang Yang, Anna Oxygen
- Spotlight: Kinotek
- USA
- Cochochi
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Two preteen Tarahumara Indian brothers tasked with delivering medicine across remote northwestern Mexico impetuously "borrow" their grandfather’s horse, lose the precious steed, then one another as they divide over how to proceed in this slyly intricate, locally cast debut film.
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- Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán
- New Directors
- Mexico/England/Canada
- 2007
- Dust
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This fascinated and fascinating documentary exposes the cyclical and relentless nature of dust in interviews with everyone from scientists uncovering its role in the origins of the universe to artists reveling in the discrete beauty of dust bunnies.
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- Hartmut Bitomsky
- Documentaries
- Germany/Switzerland
- 2007
- The English Surgeon
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Renowned London neurosurgeon Henry Marsh travels to Kiev to perform a complicated operation to remove a young man’s life-threatening brain tumor, while wrestling with the haunting memory of a similar patient he failed to save several years before.
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- Geoffrey Smith
- Documentaries
- England/Ukraine
- 2007
