FILMS
- Stranded: I’ve come from a plane that crashed on the mountains
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This sublime documentary retells, through brilliant dramatic recreation and the survivors’ unflinchingly honest accounts, the extraordinary tale of a group of young men whose plane crashes in the Andes and who must survive for 72 days before rescue.
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- Gonzalo Arijon
- Documentaries
- France
- 2007
- A Stray Girlfriend
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In this subtle, amusing breakup movie, which played in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, thirtysomething Inés (Ana Katz) finds herself solo on the holiday she planned with her ex, confronting the adjustments entailed for a suddenly solitary woman.
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- Ana Katz
- New Directors
- Argentina
- 2007
- 10 + 4
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A wrenching semi-sequel to Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten (SFIFF 2003) by its star, now battling cancer. Adopting Ten’s conceit, Akbari illuminates her physical and psychic struggle in conversations while driving. With short The Mystery of the Second Painting (28 min).
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- Mania Akbari
- New Directors
- Iran
- 2007
- Time to Die
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Shot in gorgeous black and white, this stunning cinematic sonnet is anchored by 91-year-old Danuta Szaflarska’s wondrous performance as a woman confronting the realities of aging with the magic of her memories.
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- Dorota Kedzierzawska
- World Cinema
- Poland
- 2007
- Timecrimes
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This suspenseful, imaginative and wickedly comic feature, about a mild-mannered bird-watcher who spies a half-clad woman in his binoculars with bizarre and fateful consequences, offers viewers a reminder that time travel to erase one’s mistakes is never a wise idea.
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- Nacho Vigalondo
- Spotlight: The Late Show
- Spain
- 2007
- The Toe Tactic
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Writer/director/animator Emily Hubley’s feature film debut brings her great lineage, distinctive hand-drawn style and an entire artistic community to an offbeat cinematic hybrid that plays both melancholically and mischievously on the themes of time, memory, loss and yearning.
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- Emily Hubley
- New Directors
- USA
- 2008
- Topsy-Turvy
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Leigh’s dramatization of a tumultuous juncture in the careers of Gilbert and Sullivan is a plush costume piece and backstage musical, but also a bemused, fond, warts-and-all portrait of “artistic temperament” and the rigors of making popular entertainment.
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- Mike Leigh
- Tributes
- England/USA
- 1999
- Touching Home
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Twin brothers from a small Northern California town must face their own shortcomings and those of their homeless father in this deeply moving family drama from local self-taught filmmakers Logan and Noah Miller, featuring an extraordinary performance by Ed Harris.
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- Logan Miller, Noah Miller
- Spotlight: Cinema by the Bay
- USA
- 2007
- Traveling with Pets
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An unloved wife finds her colorless world turning remarkably brighter when her husband suddenly expires in this graceful look at a woman’s midlife awakening—a Moscow International Film Festival grand prize winner and rare example of Russian feminist cinema.
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- Vera Storozheva
- World Cinema
- Russia
- 2007
- Two Ladies
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A devout Muslim matriarch and her free-spirited daughter form an unlikely bond with a strong-willed Jewish widow in Algerian-French director Philippe Faucon’s warm, wise celebration of family, friendship and kosher clash. With short Thick Skinned (14 min).
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- Philippe Faucon
- World Cinema
- France
- 2007
