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 ...