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• Hollywood Reporter: Fresh faces center stage at Sundance '08 (November 29, 2007)
  • 2008's focus will be on a younger generation of filmmakers, many of them bringing their debut films to Sundance. According to John Cooper, the director of programming, "These are filmmakers and actors we had not seen before."

• Cinematical: Sundance Reveals Competition Films for 2008 Fest
• Variety.com: Sundance lineup: 51 first-time filmmakers (November 28, 2007)
• BlogSpot.com: "I Went To The Sundance Film Festival, and All I Got Was This Lousy $1.8 Million...!"  

Screening Out of Competition

Opening Night Film

• In Bruges: - IMDb page
  • Director: Martin McDonagh
  • Synopsis from Variety: Holed up in Bruges, Belgium after a difficult job, two hit men begin to differ on their views of life and death as they become used to local customs. Starring Colin Farrell, Ralph Fiennes and Brendan Gleeson

Premieres

• Assassination of a High School President: IMDb page
  • Director: Brett Simon
  • Synopsis from Variety: A Catholic high school noir about a student journalist who uncovers a scandal. Starring Bruce Willis, Mischa Barton and Michael Rapaport

• Be Kind Rewind: IMDb page
  • Director: Michel Gondry
  • Synopsis from Variety: A flight of fancy that concerns a man whose magnetized body erases all the tapes in a friend's videostore, whereupon they endeavor to remake such lost films as "Back to the Future," "The Lion King" and "Robocop." Starring Mos Def, Jack Black, Mia Farrow and Danny Glover

• The Deal: IMDb page
  • Director: Steven Schachter
  • Synopsis from Variety: A romantic comedy about a suicidal vet Hollywood producer who cons a studio into making a big-budget pic without a script and starring a black action star newly converted to Judaism. Starring William H. Macy, Meg Ryan and LL Cool J

• Death in Love: IMDb page
  • Director: Boaz Yakin
  • Synopsis from Variety: A 40-year-old bachelor with a complicated life who tries to sort out his personal relationships in the shadow of his mother's concentration camp experience. Starring Josh Lucas, Jacqueline Bisset and Adam Brody

• Diminished Capacity: IMDb page
  • Director: Terry Kinney
  • Synopsis from Variety: A comedy about a dysfunctional family that takes a road trip to sell an ultra-rare baseball card to finance their uncle's waning years. Starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda and Virginia Madsen.

• The Escapist: IMDb page
  • Director: Rupert Wyatt
  • Synopsis from Variety: A dramatic caper about a lifer prisoner who hatches a clever escape with the help of some misfits so he can make peace with his ailing daughter. Brian Cox and Joseph Fiennes

• The Great Buck Howard: IMDb page
  • Director: Sean McGinly
  • Synopsis from Variety: A road trip movie about a law school dropout who becomes personal assistant to a has-been magician trying to make a comeback. Produced by Tom Hanks and starring Colin Hanks, John Malkovich and Emily Blunt.

• The Guitar: IMDb page
  • Director: Amy Redford
  • Synopsis from Variety: About a woman whose surfeit of bad news -- she's fired, dumped by her boyfriend and diagnosed with a terminal disease -- causes her to quickly pursue her dreams. Starring Saffron Burrows

• Henry Poole Is Here: IMDb page
  • Director: Mark Pellington
  • Synopsis from Variety: A study of faith and survival that centers on a man whose final days, which he wants to spend alone, are interrupted by a neighbor's discovery of a "miracle." Starring Luke Wilson, Radha Mitchell and Cheryl Hines.

• Incendiary: IMDb page
  • Director: Sharon Maguire
  • Synopsis from Variety: About the reactions of a young mother to a terrorist attack in London. Starring Michelle Williams and Ewan McGregor.

• The Merry Gentleman: IMDb page
  • Director: Michael Keaton
  • Synopsis from Variety: About the unusual relationship between a woman who witnesses a murder and a depressed hitman. Starring Kelly Macdonald and Michael Keaton.

• A Raisin in the Sun (2008): IMDb page
  • Director: Kenny Leon

• Savage Grace: IMDb page
  • Director: Tom Kalin
  • Synopsis from Variety: About the bizarre intimacy between a wealthy mother and her only child played out among the indolent rich in late '60s Europe. Starring Julianne Moore, and Eddie Redmayne.

• Sleepwalking (Movie): IMDb page
  • Director: Bill Maher
  • Synopsis from Variety: About a young man jolted into responsibility when his abandoned niece is threatened with life in a foster home. Starring Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb and Charlize Theron.

• Smart People: IMDb page
  • Director: Noam Murro
  • Synopsis from Variety: About a self-involved literature professor forced to examine his life when his brother unexpectedly turns up. Starring Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church and Ellen Page.

• Towelhead: IMDb page
  • Director: Alan Ball
  • Synopsis from Variety: About an Arab-American girl's tricky journey through adolescence and early sexuality in Texas. Starring Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Toni Collette and Summer Bishil.

• Transsiberian: IMDb page
  • Director: Brad Anderson
  • Synopsis from Variety: A revival of the classic train murder mystery genre set aboard a journey from China to Moscow. Starring Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Kate Mara and Ben Kingsley.

• U2 3D: IMDb page
  • Directors: Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington
  • Synopsis from Variety: A 3-D concert pic of U2's "Vertigo" tour shot at seven different shows.

• The Visitor: IMDb page
  • Director: Thomas McCarthy
  • Synopsis from Variety: Explores the growing connection between a college professor and an immigrant couple he discovers occupying his Manhattan apartment. Starring Richard Jenkins

• What Just Happened?: IMDb page
  • Director: Barry Levinson
  • Synopsis from Variety: About an inside-Hollywod comedy about a producer trying to keep sane while beset by his difficult director, star, executive, agent and second wife. Starring Robert DeNiro, Bruce Willis, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Stanley Tucci and John Turturro.

• The Year of Getting to Know Us: IMDb page
  • Director: Patrick Sisam
  • Synopsis from Variety: A dysfunctional family comedy about a commitment-phobe whose sick father helps him make sense of his own childhood. Starring Jimmy Fallon, Chase Ellison, Lucy Liu, Sharon Stone and Tom Arnold.

• Yellow Handkerchief: IMDb page
  • Director: Udayan Prasad
  • Synopsis from Variety: About a former con's encounter with two disillusoned young folk on the road in Louisiana. Starring Maria Bello and William Hurt

Spectrum: Dramatic Section

• August: IMDb page
  • Director: Austin Chick
  • Synopsis from Variety: About a dotcom entrepreneur coping with the market collapse of August 2001. Starring Josh Hartnett

• Baghead: IMDb page
  • Directors: Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass
  • Synopsis from Variety: A comedy in which two couples intent on writing the great American screenplay find their log cabin retreat stalked by a man with a bag on his head. Starring Steve Zissis and Ross Partridge

• Birds of America: IMDb page
  • Director: Craig Lucas
  • Synopsis from Variety: About the gathering of three neurotic siblings at the family manse. Starring Matthew Perry, Ginnifer Goodwin and Ben Foster.

• Blind Date (Movie): IMDb page
  • Director: Stanley Tucci
  • Synopsis from Variety: Remake of the Dutch film by the late Theo van Gogh about a married couple who, having suffered a tragedy, are only able to relate to one another as different characters through personal ads. Starring Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson

• Bottle Shock: IMDb page
  • Director: Randall Miller
  • Synopsis from Variety: Centers on the world of California wine making and the infamous "Judgment of Paris" blind wine tasting event of 1976. Starring Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman and Chris Pine.

• Chronic Town: IMDb page
  • Director: Tom Hines
  • Synopsis from Variety: A dark comedy about a substance-abusing taxi driver during an Alaskan winter. Starring JR Bourne and Emily Wagner

• A Good Day to Be Black & Sexy: IMDb page
  • Director: Dennis Dortch
  • Synopsis from Variety: A film comprised of six vignettes about sexuality and relationships among blacks in Los Angeles. Starring Kathryn Taylor

• Love Comes Lately: IMDb page
  • Director: Jan Schütte
  • Synopsis from Variety: About the active love life of an 80-year-old man, based on Isaac Bashevis Singer stories. Starring Otto Tausig and Rhea Perlman

• Momma's Man: IMDb page
  • Director: Azazel Jacobs
  • Synopsis from Variety: An offbeat portrait of a man whose attitudes toward his wife and child change after being forced to stay with his parents. Starring Flo Jacobs

• Quid Pro Quo: IMDb page
  • Director: Carlos Brooks
  • Synopsis from Variety: An unusual look at a paraplegic radio reporter who becomes interested in a mysterious woman while researching a story about able-bodied people who secretly yearn to be paralyzed. Starring Nick Stahl

• Red (Movie): IMDb page
  • Directors: Trygve Allister Diesen and Lucky McKee
  • Synopsis from Variety: About a man who seeks justice after three teenagers shoot his old dog. Starring Brian Cox and Tom Sizemore

Spectrum: Documentary Spotlight

• Anvil! The True Story of Anvil:
  • Director: Sacha Gervasi
  • Synopsis from Variety: A mockumentary-like true account of fiftysomething Canadian heavy-metal practitioners Robb Reiner and Lips who, after a desultory European tour with their band Anvil, decide to record a 13th album in a final attempt to fulfill their boyhead dreams of stardom.

• The Black List:
  • Director: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
  • Synopsis from Variety: Journo Mitchell interviews numerous black leaders from different fields to take the temperature of black America today.

• Kicking It:
  • Director: Susan Koch
  • Synopsis from Variety: About an assortment of homeless people whose lives are changed by participating in the Homeless World Cup soccer match in South Africa.

• The Linguists
  • Directors: Seth Kramer, Daniel Miller, Jeremy Newberger
  • Synopsis from Variety: About two linguists who travel the world documenting languages on the verge of extinction.

• Made in America: IMDb page
  • Director: Stacy Peralta
  • Synopsis from Variety: A comprehensive history of the Crips and Bloods street gangs of South Los Angeles.

• Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?: IMDb page
  • Director: Morgan Spurlock
  • Synopsis from Variety: A search by the filmmaker for the elusive terrorist.

• Young @ Heart: IMDb page
  • Director: Stephen Walker
  • Synopsis from Variety: A senior citizens' choir performs tunes by classic and contempo pop musicians.

New Frontier

• Casting a Glance: IMDb page
  • Director: James Benning
  • Synopsis from Variety: An experimental look at the Spiral Jetty, Robert Smithson's enormous sculpture that has evolved over 30 years in conjunction with the ebb and flow of the Great Salt Lake.

• Eat, for This Is My Body: IMDb page
  • Director: Michelange Quay
  • Synopsis from Variety: A meditation on racial conquest and liberation in Haiti.

• Fear(s) of the Dark: IMDb page
  • Directors: Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Callou, Romain Slocombe, Pierre Di Sciullio, Lorenzo Mattotti, Jerry Kramsky
  • Synopsis from Variety: An animated feature comprising six works by graphic artists and cartoonists addressing their phobias and nightmares.

• Half-Life (Movie): IMDb page
  • Director: Jennifer Phang
  • Synopsis from Variety: About a family confronting hidden issues against the backdrop of impending global cataclysms.

• Reversion: IMDb page
  • Director: Mia Trachinger
  • Synopsis from Variety: A woman genetically stripped of morality tries to continue her romance with a man.

• Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Parts 4 and 5
  • Director: Yang Fudong
  • Synopsis from Variety: A collection of the most recent shorts by artist Yang Fudong, which focus on seven thinkers in the ancient Chinese Wei and Jin dynasties.

Park City at Midnight

• Adventures of Power: IMDb page
  • Director: Ari Gold
  • Synopsis from Variety: A comedy about the struggles of a small-town dreamer to become the world's great air-drummer. Starring Adrian Grenier

• The Broken: IMDb page
  • Director: Sean Ellis
  • Synopsis from Variety: A horror film that commences when a woman on a London street sees herself driving by in her own car. Starring Lena Headey and Richard Jenkins

• Donkey Punch: IMDb page
  • Director: Oliver Blackburn
  • Synopsis from Variety: About the fallout among several young adults on a yacht in the Mediterranean after one of them dies in a freak accident. Starring Tom Burke

• Funny Games: IMDb page
  • Director: Michael Haneke
  • Synopsis from Variety: An American remake by the Austrian filmmaker of his own 1997 shocker. Starring Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt and Devon Gearhart

• Diary of the Dead: IMDb page
  • Director: George A. Romero
  • Synopsis from Variety: Students making an indie horror film suddenly find themselves trapped with real zombies. Starring Nick Alachiotis, Matt Birman and George Buza

• Hell Ride: IMDb page
  • Director: Larry Bishop
  • Synopsis from Variety: An homage to '60s AIP chopper mellers. Starring Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen.

• Otto; or, Up With Dead People:
  • Director: Bruce La Bruce
  • Synopsis from Variety: A lonely gay zombie searches for love and meaning in contemporary Berlin. Starring Jey Crisfar

• Timecrimes: IMDb page
  • Director: Nacho Vigalondo
  • Synopsis from Variety: About a man who meets himself when he travels back in time, precipitating a terrible crime. Starring Karra Elejalde

Films in Competition

Dramatic Competition

• American Son: IMDb page
  • Director: Neil Abramson
  • Nick Cannon stars as a Marine home on four-day leave who attempts to spark a new romance.

• Anywhere, U.S.A.
  • Director: Anthony Haney-Jardine
  • Synopsis from Variety: An experimental, three-part feature about manners, prejudice and family dynamics.

• Ballast
  • Director: Lance Hammer
  • Synopsis from Variety: A lyrical look at the effect of a tragedy on an impoverished family in the Mississippi Delta.

• Choke: IMDb page
  • Director: Clark Gregg
  • An adaptation of the book by Chuck Palahniuk (the author of Fight Club) starring Anjelica Huston and Sam Rockwell.

• Downloading Nancy: IMDb page
  • Director: Johan Renck
  • Maria Bello stars as a woman who hires a hitman over the Internet to assassinate her, then falls in love with him.

• Frozen River: IMDb page
  • Director: Courtney Hunt
  • Synopsis from Variety: A woman on New York's Mohawk Reservation who takes up illegal-immigrant smuggling to survive.

• Good Dick: IMDb page
  • Director: Marianna Palka
  • Synopsis from Variety: A vulnerable young woman drawn into a relationship with a video store clerk.

• The Last Word: IMDb page
  • Director: Geoff Haley
  • Winona Ryder, Wes Bentley and Ray Romano star in this romantic comedy about a professional suicide note writer.

• The Mysteries of Pittsburgh: IMDb page
  • Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
  • This adaptation of writer Michael Chabon's debut novel chronicles a tense father-son relationship.

• North Starr
  • Director: Matthew Stanton
  • Synopsis from Variety: Concerns a Houston man who, after witnessing his best friend's murder, moves to a backward rural town.

• Phoebe in Wonderland: IMDb page
  • Director: Daniel Barnz
  • A free-spirited young girl clashes with her uptight mother, played by Felicity Huffman, and bonds with her unconventional drama teacher, played by Patricia Clarkson.

• Pretty Bird: IMDb page
  • Director: Paul Schneider
  • An unlikely trio sets out to invent a rocket belt in this darkly satirical comedy starring Billy Crudup, Paul Giamatti and Kristen Wiig.

• Sleep Dealer: IMDb page
  • Director: Alex Rivera
  • Synopsis from Variety: A social commentary-infused sci-fier about three strangers who attempt to break through future technological barriers to connect in a world of closed borders and virtual labor.

• Sugar (Movie): IMDb page
  • Director: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
  • Features Algenis Perez Soto as a Dominican baseball star recruited to play in the U.S. minor leagues.

• Sunshine Cleaning: IMDb page
  • Director: Christine Jeffs
  • Stars Amy Adams and Emily Blunt as sisters who try to climb out of poverty by working in biohazard removal and crime scene clean-up. Steve Zahn, Alan Arkin and Clifton Collins Jr. also star.

• The Wackness: IMDb page
  • Director: Jonathan Levine
  • An unlikely friendship between a teenage pot dealer and his therapist/client (played by Ben Kingsley) is interrupted when the patient falls in love for his doctor's daughter. Josh Peck, Famke Janssen and Mary-Kate Olsen co-star.

Documentary Competition

• An American Soldier
  • Director: Edet Belzberg
  • Synopsis from Variety: Looks at one of the U.S. Army's top recruiters.

• American Teen: IMDb page
  • Director: Nanette Burstein
  • Synopsis from Variety: An irreverent, frank account of four Indiana high school seniors.

• Bigger, Faster, Stronger
  • Director: Christopher Bell
  • Synopsis from Variety: Rawady, follows three brothers (including the filmmaker) who use steroids.

• Fields of Fuel: IMDb page
  • Director: Josh Tickell
  • Synopsis from Variety: Follows the Director as he takes on "big oil, big government and big soy" while proselytizing for energy alternatives.

• Flow: For Love of Water
  • Director: Irena Salina
  • Synopsis from Variety: Confronts the possibility that Earth's supply of this essential liquid is dwindling.

• Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: IMDb page
  • Director: Alex Gibney
  • Synopsis from Variety: Looks at the late author's prime period of 1965-75 via previously unavailable home movies, audio recordings and unpublished manuscripts.

• The Greatest Silence
  • Director: Lisa F. Jackson
  • Synopsis from Variety: Director travels to the Congo war zones to record the testimony of rape survivors.

• I.O.U.S.A.: IMDb page
  • Director: Patrick Creadon
  • Synopsis from Variety: An examination of the United States' precarious financial condition that also advances ideas to avoid national economic disaster.

• Nerakhoon
  • Director: Ellen Kuras
  • Synopsis from Variety: The culmination of a 20-year project to portray the struggle of the latter's family to survive the impact of U.S. foreign policy in Laos and to understand his father's involvement in the war.

• The Order of Myths
  • Director: Margaret Brown
  • Synopsis from Variety: Concerns the 2007 Mardi Gras in Mobile, Ala., where the event remains segregated.

• Patti Smith: Dream of Life: IMDb page
  • Director: Steven Sebring
  • Synopsis from Variety: A 12-year project that offers an intimate portrait of the poet-musician.

• Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
  • Director: Marina Zenovich
  • Synopsis from Variety: Focuses on Polanski's decision to flee his legal problems in the U.S.

• Secrecy
  • Directors: Peter Galison and Robb Moss
  • Synopsis from Variety: Investigates the world of government secrecy.

• Slingshot Hip Hop
  • Director: Jackie Reem Salloum
  • Synopsis from Variety: Looks at Palestinian rappers.

• Traces of the Trade
  • Director: Katrina Browne
  • Synopsis from Variety: A fresh look at personal history by descendants of the largest slave-trading family in America.

• Trouble the Water
  • Director: Tia Lessin and Carl Deal
  • Synopsis from Variety: Incorporates the video diary of a young couple and family who struggled to survive post-Katrina despair and difficulty.

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

• Absurdistan: IMDb page
  • Director: Veit Helmer
  • Synopsis from Variety: Concerns a sex strike by village women that threatens a young couple's first night together.

• Blue Eyelids: IMDb page
  • Director: Ernesto Contreras
  • Synopsis from Variety: Concerns the ramifications of a single woman's winning of a beach trip for two.

• Captain Abu Raed: IMDb page
  • Director: Amin Matalqa
  • Synopsis from Variety: Follows an aging airport janitor who relates tall tales to local kids who think he's a pilot.

• The Drummer: IMDb page
  • Director: Kenneth Bi

• I Always Wanted to be a Gangster: IMDb page
  • Director: Samuel Benchetrit
  • Synopsis from Variety: The story of a man who matures from reckless gangster to serious grownup due to the influence of Zen drumming.

• Just Another Love Story: IMDb page
  • Director: Ole Bornedal
  • Synopsis from Variety: Concerns the unanticipated effects on a family man of an auto accident that causes a woman's amnesia.

• King of Ping Pong: IMDb page
  • Director: Jens Jonsson
  • Synopsis from Variety: Pivots on an acrimonious relationship between two young brothers.

• Mancora: IMDb page
  • Director: Ricardo de Montreuil
  • Synopsis from Variety: About a grieving young man who journeys to the titular beach town in Peru.

• Megane: IMDb page
  • Director: Naoko Ogigami
  • Synopsis from Variety: A comedy depicting a life change occasioned by a vacation at an odd beach community.

• Mermaid: IMDb page
  • Director: Anna Melikyan
  • Synopsis from Variety: Concerns a girl whose ability to make wishes come true hits reality when she goes to Moscow as a young woman.

• Perro Come Perro
  • Director: Carlos Moreno
  • Synopsis from Variety: A crime drama about two hoods who sign their own death warrants when they bungle a job.

• Riprendimi
  • Director: Anna Negri
  • Synopsis from Variety: Centers on a married couple with a baby who are breaking up while a documentary is being made about them.

• Strangers: IMDb page
  • Director: Erez Tadmor and Guy Nattiv
  • Synopsis from Variety: Depicts a love affair between an Israeli man and a Palestinian woman during the World Cup finals in Germany.

• Under the Bombs: IMDb page
  • Director: Philippe Aractingi
  • Synopsis from Variety: Concerns a woman who engages a taxi driver to drive her through areas just bombed by Israel in 2006 in search of her sister and son.

• The Wave: IMDb page
  • Director: Dennis Gansel
  • Synopsis from Variety: Looks at the unintended consequences of a teacher's experiment to demonstrate what life is like under a dictatorship.

• The Wind and the Water
  • Directors: A collective collaboration
  • Synopsis from Variety: Concerns two very different encounters between an indigenous teenage boy new to Panama City and an alluring girl from a wealthy family.

World Cinema Documentary Competition

• Alone in Four Walls
  • Director: Alexandra Westmeier
  • Synopsis from Variety: Focuses on Russian teens whose life confined to a rural home for delinquents may be preferable to freedom.

• The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins
  • Director: Pietra Brettkelly
  • Synopsis from Variety: Concerns a woman's obsessive desire to adopt Sudanese twin orphans, raising questions about Western attitudes concerning Africa.

• Be Like Others:
  • Director: Tanaz Eshaghian
  • Synopsis from Variety: Looks at young Iranian men choosing to undergo sex-change surgery.

• A Complete History of My Sexual Failures: IMDb page
  • Director: Chris Waitt
  • Synopsis from Variety: Follows the filmmaker as he consults the women in his life, past and present, to learn exactly how the opposite sex views him.

• Derek
  • Director: Isaac Julien
  • Synopsis from Variety: Is an artistic illumination of the life and work of the late British filmmaker Derek Jarman.

• Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey: IMDb page
  • Director: Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan
  • Synopsis from Variety: An interview-driven report on the state of mind of Pakistanis.

• Durakovo: Le village des fous
  • Director: Nino Kirtadze
  • Synopsis from Variety: A look at Russian nationalism through the activities of a right-wing leader training initiates at a castle near Moscow.

• In Prison My Whole Life: IMDb page
  • Director: Marc Evans
  • Synopsis from Variety: Probes U.S. history and the justice system through the case of death row inmate Mumia Abu Jamal.

• Man on Wire
  • Director: James Marsh
  • Synopsis from Variety: Looks back at the 1974 stunt in which a Frenchman danced on a wire suspended between New York's Twin Towers.

• Puujee
  • Director: Kazuya Yamada
  • Synopsis from Variety: Concerns a Japanese photographer whose subject is a girl who tames wild horses on the Mongolian plains.

• Recycle Movie
  • Director: Mahmoud al Massad
  • Synopsis from Variety: Follows a man's struggle to support his family in the tense hometown of Iraqi Al Qaeda leader Al-Zarqawi.

• Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
  • Director: Gonzalo Arijon
  • Synopsis from Variety: Depicts survivors of the famous 1974 Andes plane crash telling their stories first-hand for the first time.

• Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma
  • Director: Patrick Reed
  • Synopsis from Variety: Follows former Doctors Without Borders head James Orbinski as he returns to Africa to assess the harsh conditions and explore the meaning of humanitarian work.

• Up the Yangtze: IMDb page
  • Director: Yung Chang
  • Synopsis from Variety: A portrait of a changing China through the experiences of young people from the Three Gorges Dam area who take jobs on a cruise ship.

• Women of Brukman
  • Director: Isaac Isitan
  • Synopsis from Variety: An account of how poor workers who take over a Buenos Aires clothing factory adjust to becoming self-managers.

• Yasukuni (Movie): IMDb page
  • Director: Ying Li
  • Synopsis from Variety: Probes the controversy surrounding Japanese officials paying homage at the Yasukuni shrine, where swords used to kill Chinese were forged.

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