2008 İSTANBUL FİLM FESTİVALİ
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- DirectorMehdi CharefStarsMohamed Faouzi Ali CherifThomas MilletTolga CayirA pair of childhood friends spend a spring together before the summer Algeria's war of Independence.
- DirectorJan KounenLaurent LafranBruno VatinStarsJean DujardinJocelyn QuivrinPatrick MilleThe life of Octave Parango, a flamboyant ad designer, filled with success, satire, misery and love.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsGalina VishnevskayaVasily ShevtsovRaisa GichaevaAn elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsSergey MakovetskiySergey GarmashApti MagamaevTwelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.
- DirectorPetra HolzerEthem ÖzgüvenMultinational companies were licensed to mine gold with cyanide in Turkey from 1989-1990. The people of Bergama and its surrounding 17 villages maintained their resistance against the cyanide mining operation for many years.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderAlf BrustellinHans Peter CloosStarsWolfgang BächlerHeinz BennentWolf BiermannGermany in Autumn has no typical plot; it mixes documentary footage with standard movie scenes to present the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The film covers 2 months in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped and murdered by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction). The businessman was kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the original leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state. The film has several vignettes, including an extended set of scenes with famous director Rainer Werner Fassbinder discussing his feelings about Germany's political situation at the time. Fassbinder's scenes almost seem to be candid documentary footage, but they aren't. Other scenes include documentary footage of the joint funeral of Baader, Enslin, and Raspe.
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsF. Murray AbrahamTom HulceElizabeth BerridgeThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
- DirectorNezih ÜnenA musical journey among exotic places and people of Anatolia, unique host of ancient civilizations of 10 millennia. The authentic performances recorded live on location spontaneously. With the modern arrangements made, an incomparable musical is formed.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsMacit KoperSahika TekandSerra YilmazThe lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.
- DirectorÜmit ÜnalStarsErdem AkakçeSelim DemirdelenSerhat TutumluerAra is the story of four people and an empty house. These people are stuck between their past and stormy relationships, between Istanbul and the "homes" they can't get back, between their innermost secrets and the lies they tell, between east and west. They are stuck in the "space between".
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsAndy GilletStéphanie CrayencourCécile CasselA romantic drama centered around a young shepherd and shepherdess and the ramifications of their forbidden affair.
- DirectorLaurent CharbonnierStarsCécile de FranceDocumentary that shows different animal species from all over the world courting and mating.
- DirectorParvez SharmaStarsMuhsin HendricksA.K. HoosenMazenA documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.
- DirectorChristophe HonoréStarsLudivine SagnierLouis GarrelClotilde HesmeIsmael and Julie enter a playful yet emotionally laced threesome with Alice. When tragedy strikes, these young Parisians are forced to deal with the fragility of life and love.
- DirectorIsabel CoixetStarsBen KingsleyPenélope CruzPatricia ClarksonCultural critic David Kepesh finds his life, which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood," thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
- DirectorMicha WaldStarsAdrien JolivetGrégoire ColinGrégoire Leprince-RinguetFour men living in Eastern Europe in 1856 get caught up in tales of thievery, murder and revenge.
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsJim CarreyDanny DeVitoGerry BeckerThe life and career of legendary comedian Andy Kaufman.
- DirectorAbdellatif KechicheStarsHabib BoufaresHafsia HerziFarida BenkhetacheIn southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsJeanne BalibarGuillaume DepardieuBulle OgierIn Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently returned from Africa, she married and part of the highest society. She flirts with him, and soon he's captivated. His behavior is possessive, insistent. Then, it is her turn to become obsessed. Letters, balls, scandal, a kidnapping, and an ultimatum bring her to the cloister and him to melancholy. Whose steel proved sharper? Is it tragic or grotesque?
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsNúria EspertJosep Maria PouRosa Maria Sardà6 characters--contemporary archetypes of urban solitude--in an old Barcelona building: an old husband and wife, her sister, and 3 tenants: a teacher of French, a young ex-footballer, now security guard, and a pregnant Latin American girl.
- DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsIngvar SigurdssonÁgústa Eva ErlendsdóttirBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonA murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.
- DirectorWilliam KleinStarsJohn AbbeyDelphine SeyrigDonald PleasenceMr. Freedom is an all-American superhero that destroys everyone who even remotely disagrees with imperialism. The film accounts his latest assignment to save France from being taken over by the commies.
- DirectorTeona Strugar MitevskaStarsLabina MitevskaAna KostovskaNikolina KujacaThree sisters living in an ancient city known for its toxic lead factory strive to break free from their past and get something more out of life in this darkly comic family drama. In a fractured landscape where communism and capitalism have both failed, virginal 27-year-old Afrodita lives in a modest home with her twin sister Sapho and their older sibling Slavica. Afrodita has remained mute ever since her mother walked out on the family and her father died, and Sapho is a promiscuous handball player whose many conquests fail to provide personal fulfillment. Slavica is a 35-year-old recovering drug addict whose radiant beauty can't make up for the fact that she is perceived by many as damaged goods. If only Afrodita and Sapho could find their lonely sibling a suitable mate who could also stand as the family breadwinner, perhaps they could take the tentative first steps toward escaping their noxious hometown.
- DirectorTodd HaynesStarsChristian BaleCate BlanchettHeath LedgerRuminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work.
- DirectorAriane RieckerMarcus VetterStarsCahit CubukCorinna HarfouchMarcus VetterThe film describes the author's first detailed encounter with his 72-year-old father and his family during a three-week summer vacation in Turkey.