Athens International Film Festival
aiff

    Archive : 14th AIFF 2008

  • Synecdoche, New York

    Having left Broadway for a warehouse in Manhattan, theater director Caden Cotard is getting ready for his most ambitious work to date: a replica of ...
  • Religulous

    One of the most prominent stand up comedians and television hosts, Bill Maher is a sworn enemy of political correctness and ?as is evident from ...
  • Pineapple Express

    Being a witness to a murder committed by a ruthless cop is bad enough. Being spotted by said cop and knowing that he’ll do everything in his power ...
  • Hamlet 2

    We’ve all seen them, again and again, those Dead Poets Society-style teachers, who dare to go against the grain, only to meet with the fury of ...
  • Hunger

    In 1981, IRA’s Bobby Sands and ten other prisoners in the Maze prison in Northern Ireland starved themselves to death protesting against the Thatcher ...
  • Choke

    Colonial theme park worker Victor Mancini has made an art out of manipulating other peoples’ vulnerabilities: an incurable sex addict, he preys on ...
  • Cherry Blossoms

    When she learns that her husband is fatally ill, Trudi decides to conceal the truth and convince her husband to join her on a last trip together to ...
  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona

    Vicky and Cristina decide to spend their summer under the hot Spanish sun for very different reasons: the somber and serious Vicky is preparing a ...
  • Faubourg 36

    Paris, 1936. The victory of the Popular Front at the national elections has generated a new wave of optimism all across France. Amidst the general ...
  • Die Welle

    Exasperated by his students’ smugness that ?the world knows better to let things like Nazism happen again,? their teacher decides to put their ...
  • Il Divo

    Few political figures have divided their countries more than Giulio Andreotti, the emblematic Italian politician nicknamed ?Il Divo? (the divine). ...
  • Gomorra

    Welcome to the wider Naples region, stomping ground of the infamous Camorra, a loosely-structured organization of crime families operating in the ...
  • American Teen

    What does it mean to be a teenager in contemporary America? To answer the question, Nanette Burstein (The Kid Stays in the Picture) picked up her ...
  • Comme Les Autres

    Phillipe and Emmanuel are gay couple on the verge of splitting up after the latter’s obsession to become a father. An accidental meeting Emmanuel ...
  • Rocknrolla

    Guy Ritchie is back with a frenetic comic adventure, much in the style of his early successes, to take us to a dangerous ride into high crime and ...
  • Son of Rambow

    Two boys become friends at school after a fight in the early eighties. One comes from a strict background where he's not allowed to have friends or ...
  • Tropic Thunder

    A film crew moves to the jungle for a big-udget adaptation of a Vietnam veteran's memoir. Unbeknownst to them, they are dropped off at the infamous ...