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12 Events
on Thursday the 21st of February, 2008
An idyllic town surrounded by mountains is shocked by the murder of young and beautiful Anna (Alessia Piovan), found nude on the side of a lake but with no signs of sexual assault or a struggle. Inspector Giovanni Sanzio (Servillo) is called in ...
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Living conditions are deteriorating for those who lead a rural existence in north-western Mongolia. China’s industry is expanding – even into this inhospitable region – and the government is pressurising Monoglian shepherds to give up ...
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Amidst lush fields and the idyllic landscape of a kibbutz in 1974, 12-year-old Dvir is entering his bar mitzvah year – a time for many initiations and trials. Dvir’s father is dead, his brother is away in the army, and his mother, Miri, ...
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Karcsi Szabó is a member of the Hungarian water polo team, one of Europe’s leading teams. Last year, the team’s only defeat was in Moscow, where they only lost because the referee refused to let them win. Now the team are training ...
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Say the name Maria Callas and a multitude of associations come to mind: diva extraordinaire; one of the greatest opera stars the world has ever known; lover of Aristotle Onassis; fashion icon. Callas was a larger-than-life personality, still ...
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For its legions of fans, the novel Love in the Time of Cholera by the Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, is akin to a Rosetta stone, the premier text of love, transcendence and spectacular writing. So screenwriter Ronald ...
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Set in a small town where everyone knows everyone else, and everybody has strongly held opinions about how others should conduct their affairs (but wouldn’t dare voice those opinions publicly), Just Like Home recounts what happens when those ...
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Filmbase is delighted to present a selection of Irish language short films as part of the JDIFF 2008, which includes a number of shorts made through the Lasair scheme. This scheme, administered by Filmbase and ...
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The Lookout marks Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Scott Frank’s (Out of Sight), directorial debut. This intelligent crime drama is centered around Chris Pratt, once a Golden Boy athletic hero in his small Midwestern town. Chris had it all ...
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As a student, director Neasa Ní Chianáin first encountered Irish poet, Cathal Ó Searcaigh. Writing in her native Irish, the charismatic figure of Ó Searcaigh cast a spell on her: his poetry spoke of the land, the pain of lost love, and ...
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XXY, Lucía Puenzo’s accomplished debut, explores the painful search for gender identity of Alex (an outstanding performance by Inés Efron), a hermaphrodite, as she enters adolescence and is pressured by her parents ...
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“My films aspire to the condition of documentary. If you’re a newsreel cameraman and you go and shoot a real event, you know that a world exists whether you film it or not. What I want to do is create a world with that kind of solidity to ...
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