FILMS
- One Hundred Nails
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Italian master Ermanno Olmi’s final narrative feature pits religious orthodoxy and book knowledge against spiritual humanism and direct experience as a philosophy professor nails academic life to the floor and moves to live among the people.
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- Ermanno Olmi
- World Cinema
- Italy
- 2007
- 1000 Journals
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This intriguing documentary investigates the creative spark that ignites when a San Francisco artist disseminates 1000 blank journals around the world, the empty pages filling with art, stories, memories and thoughts as the books pass from hand to hand.
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- Andrea Kreuzhage
- Documentaries
- USA
- 2007
- Operation Turquoise
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This unsentimental, sometimes brutal docudrama assesses the ostensibly humanitarian role of French troops after the Rwandan genocide of 1994 by viewing it through the eyes of both naïve and seasoned soldiers.
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- Alain Tasma
- World Cinema
- France
- 2007
- Orz Boyz
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Two mischievous and highly imaginative boys spend a hot Taiwanese summer scheming to enter the seaside kingdom of Orz and escape their troubled home lives in this bittersweet, often hilarious tale.
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- Gillies Ya-che Yang
- New Directors
- Taiwan
- 2008
- Picking Up the Pieces
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The people in these shorts, from an estranged couple to an avid collector of animal bones, are all trying to find the missing link that will render them whole.
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- Shorts
- Profit motive and the whispering wind
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Inspired by Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, filmmaker Gianvito creates a lean, lyrical cinematic poem chronicling the history of American freethinkers and radicals through the potent images of the gravestones left behind. With short Pool (13 min).
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- John Gianvito
- Documentaries
- USA
- 2007
- Recycle
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In this vivid documentary, filmmaker Mahmoud al Massad digs into the politics, piety and poverty of his native city in Jordan through the life of husband, father and former mujahadeen-turned-cardboard collector Abu Ammar.
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- Mahmoud al Massad
- Documentaries
- Jordan
- 2007
- Redbelt
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Chiwetel Ejiofor is a jiu-jitsu instructor and mixed-martial artist drawn into a Hollywood con in David Mamet’s latest rapid-fire look at the literal fight for the American dream, set in the West L.A. world of bouncers, ex-cons and ex-military.
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- David Mamet
- World Cinema
- USA
- 2008
- The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
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A dashing shepherd and a beautiful maiden find romance fraught with misunderstanding and doomed by fate in the great director Eric Rohmer’s latest film, a whimsical and more than fitting salute to a lifetime of star-crossed, verbose, ever-so-lovely lovers.
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- Eric Rohmer
- World Cinema
- France/Italy/Spain
- 2007
- Scott Arford: Static Life
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Over the last decade-plus, video and sound artist Scott Arford has quietly been shaping the Bay Area’s new media culture. This program presents his artistic practice through both a retrospective and his latest multimedia performance, Still Life (almost) Another Day in Three Acts.
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- Scott Arford
- Spotlight: Kinotek
- USA
- 2008
