2008 Movies

Five people and their relation to murder, as perpetrators, as victims, as conspirators.

Plastic is a short film that deals with the obsession of body image. Whilst Anna is preparing for a first date with Henry, a man she has secretly...

Painted Skin is based on one of Pu Songling's classic short stories in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Zhou Xun stars as Xiao Wei, a fox...

A world class ice skater eager to take the top prize in the biggest competition around finds his dreams going up in flames after his partner suffers...

The man who goes through purgatory – the “song of the earth” – is a curious being, constantly stopped by the concrete nature...

After an accident involving a touring hockey team and a date gone wrong, a group of youngsters find themselves stranded in the Welsh hills with a...

Two projectionists discover a disturbing film featuring the lynching of a woman. Not only are they troubled by the content of the movie, but strange...

An illegal Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Ming Ding has only until the end of the day to come up with the...

Alice is a quiet young girl. She lives with her mother and younger sister. Her best friend is Josse and they used to have fun and go swimming...

Nothing is as it seems when a rookie cop is assigned to watch over a serial killer known as the "Eater".

On a secluded family farm, a mother suffers a psychotic break due to postpartum depression, forcing the eldest son to protect his sibling from the...

A criminal sentenced to life on a prison planet reveals his true purpose: to extract revenge on the killers who murdered his family.

It is a story imbued with popular religiosity, embodied in Rospicio Rodríguez, a Peruvian who returns from Chile to his homeland during the...

On December 21, 2012 four strangers on a journey of faith are drawn to an ancient temple in the heart of Mexico. For the Mayans it is the last...

Calling All Cons! With the 70th Anniversary of Alcatraz Penitentiary fast approaching, National Park Service Ranger John Cantwell is inviting every...

In a dystopian future, contestants compete in a cross-country road race in which killing is part of the game.

In the smallest of Florida towns a lone well driller, Joe, works gathering geological samples for a university study. Unknowingly, Joe unearths more...

In the tragi-comic tradition, 'Ronnie Grimble' is an idiosyncratic tale about a man's attempt to overcome his humdrum existence.

Two brothers, ambitious dot-com entrepreneurs, attempt to keep their company afloat as the stock market begins to collapse in August 2001, one month...

Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three...

This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon), and the tourism it has attracted. The filmmakers...

A young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and accused of a crime she didn't commit, Dee goes against...

A group of teenage boys out to give their girlfriends a good scare on Homecoming night, which also happens to be Halloween, head to an abandoned...

Thirteen years after the genocide, we meet a family man in Rwanda who suffers from a bad conscience. The evening before the genocide started he raped...

This film contemplates the character of Trellick Tower, a high-rise council building in West London. It explores the building and how it relates to...

Acting on impulse, Claire Dennison, enjoys a brief fling with a sexy stranger (a dead ringer for her husband), only to realize that the object of her...

A private eye has to face his demons while on a stakeout in a haunted house.

Worldfest film about amateur filmmakers.

A story about friendship and moral dilemmas. Young people yearn for a better future in developing country, while old people seek to restore the old...

An Iraqi war vet returns home to find that his brother is in a coma from participating in an illegal underground fight club.

Like many young men in the Dominican Republic, 19-year-old Miguel "Sugar" Santos dreams of winning a slot on an American baseball team. Indeed, his...

Marriage of Vienna, theater director, and Daniel, a geriatric physician, is in crisis. Both cling to their professional activity to fill the void in...

Dry Rain takes place over the course of an afternoon in a non-descript lifeless time warp characteristic of America's Heart-land. Stil, a broken man...

Rayburn has family obligations: a young wife, a son...and the violent crime family that employs him. Devoted to both families, Rayburn is reluctant...

Portraits of some of the gay community's most renowned artists and spiritual leaders, with commentary by noted author and photographer Mark Thompson.

Slow motion abstractions and analyses of bodies in motion.

A Gulf War veteran with PTSD heads to a small town to find his friend. When he arrives his friend and his family have vanished and the townsfolk...

A documentary on a New York City woman who has spent most of her 93 years in the world of movies, TV, commercial, and print media.