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    Archive : 14th AIFF 2008

  • Boy A

    Jack is only 24 but he has already served a prison sentence for a murder he committed as a boy. Having spent most of his life in prison, this is his ...
  • Besieged City

    Welcome to Tin Shui Wai, a.k.a. City of Sadness, home of teen gangs, prostitutes and drug trafficers. Ling-kit is a lonely adolescent desperately trying ...
  • Une Journee

    How long does it take for a family to come apart? According to Jacob Berger, it takes less than 24 hours. Set in a course of one day, Berger observes ...
  • One Shot

    For more than ten years since the drawing up of the Dogme 95 manifesto, calling for more purity in filmmaking, the Danish have made a tradition of ...
  • Enfances

    What do Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Tati, Alfred Hitchcock and Jean Renoir have in common? Well, nothing much, except that ...
  • The Stranger In Me

    Recently married, Rebecca and Julian are overwhelmed with joy when they find out they’re going to have a child. But when Rebecca gives birth to a ...
  • Les Grandes Personnes

    Albert has made a habit out of dragging his less-than-eager teenage daughter Jeanne to a different European location every year for her birthday. ...
  • Ciao

    After Jeff’s sudden death, his best friend Mark sorts through the deceased’s contacts list only to come across Andrea, an Italian web designer, with ...
  • Eleve Libre

    A mediocre student, 16-year-old Jonas is largely uninterested in school preferring to focus on his tennis practice instead. But Jonas is forced to ...
  • Dansen

    Annika’s life couldn’t get any better. She is running a successful dance school and she is head over hills in love, with Lasse, a handsome, if ...
  • Chiko

    Things are finally looking up for Chiko, a small time drug dealer dreaming to hit it big in the rough, Turkish-dominated neighborhoods of Hamburg. ...
  • Everybody Dies But Me

    Katya, Vika and Zhanna are growing up in the rough suburbs of Moscow. Amidst their drab existence, repressive parents and the zero prospects offered ...
  • Moscow, Belgium

    Christophe Van Rompaey’s debut film could not start on a more surreal premise: somewhere in the working class suburb of Moscow, in Belgium, Matty ...
  • De La Guerre

    Fed up with his drab existence, Bertrand, a film director, is almost at breaking point. His first outburst occurs when he decides to spend his night ...
  • O' Horten

    After 40 years on the job as an engine driver, the 67-year-old Odd Horten is getting ready for his last Oslo-Bergen trip before his retirement. Most ...
  • Poppy Shakespeare

    N is a familiar figure at London’s Dorothy Fish mental hospital. Having spent the past 13 years of her life in an out of treatment, N has severed ...
  • The Wackness

    It’s the long hot summer of 1994. The New York streets echo with hip hop beats, the aroma of marijuana penetrates every corner, the newly elected ...
  • Filth and Wisdom

    The Ukrainian-born Andy Kristen -A.K. for short- is a poet and self-fancied philosopher waiting to hit it big with his band, Gogol Bordello. In the ...