FILMS
- Umbrella
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The latest documentary from Du Haibin, part of the Sixth Generation of Chinese filmmakers known for their penchant for exposing uncomfortable truths, explores the aftermath of urban China’s abandonment of its rural past.
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- Du Haibin
- Documentaries
- China
- 2007
- Under the Bombs
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A woman frantically seeking out her son and sister in Southern Lebanon during Israel’s bombing campaign of summer 2006 convinces a taxi driver to take her to the war zone, developing a bond that transcends class, religion and politics.
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- Philippe Aractingi
- New Directors
- France/Lebanon/England/Belgium
- 2007
- Up the Yangtze
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This lyrical, haunting documentary looks at the massive changes wrought by the Three Gorges Dam through two teenagers working on a cruise ship that caters to European and North American tourists.
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- Yung Chang
- Documentaries
- Canada
- 2007
- Valse Sentimentale
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Set in the goth subculture of contemporary Athens, this offbeat love story follows two tormented young souls as they slowly and awkwardly start a friendship that inevitably leads them to a more intimate connection.
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- Constantina Voulgaris
- New Directors
- Greece
- 2007
- Vasermil
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Three soccer-playing, not-so-neighborly teens—a racist pizza boy, an Ethiopian-Israeli and a sullen Russian émigré—face a critical match and a no-future world in this vibrant Israeli Mean Streets, the Jerusalem Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize winner.
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- Mushon Salmona
- New Directors
- Israel
- 2007
- The Wackness
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A hip-hop-loving Upper East Side truant forms an unlikely alliance with his drug-addled shrink in this clever mix of private school and old school, an audience favorite at Sundance, featuring Ben Kingsley and a memorable cameo from Mary Kate Olsen.
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- Jonathan Levine
- Big Nights
- USA
- 2007
- Walt & El Grupo
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A 1941 goodwill tour and research trip through South America by Walt Disney and a group of his artists, nicknamed El Grupo, is reconstructed through archival film clips, interviews and new footage in this fascinating documentary.
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- Theodore Thomas
- Documentaries
- USA
- 2007
- The Warlords
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Jet Li and Andy Lau star in this epic story of a fatally ambitious general’s rise and fall during China’s Qing Dynasty. Spectacular battle scenes, dramatic intensity and martial arts fury contribute to one of Asia’s best super-productions to date.
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- Peter Ho-sun Chan
- World Cinema
- Hong Kong
- 2007
- Water Lilies
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A trio of French tweens—lovestruck loner Marie, zaftig eccentric Anne and sultry tease Floriane—dive into the chilly waters of synchronized swimming and adolescent sexuality in Céline Sciamma’s assured debut, an “age of possibilities” story with a splash of Esther Williams.
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- Céline Sciamma
- New Directors
- France
- 2007
- Wonderful Town
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Writer/director Aditya Assarat’s melancholy Thai “ghost story,” about an architect who falls in love with a hotel maid, substitutes dreamlike scenes of the tsunami-ravaged seacoast for shock cuts. No monsters here, just ordinary people haunted by the disaster, years later.
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- Aditya Assarat
- New Directors
- Thailand
- 2007
