Film Club Titles for 2008
Festival Shorts Collection
Film Movement's Festival Shorts Collection features 8 ground-breaking short movies that you won't find anywhere else.
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The Violin
An elderly Mexican musician leads a traveling band that also includes his son and grandson. Determined to fight the country's military regime,they help to supply guerrilla fighters by hiding ammunitio...
August the First
Tunde's family throws him a graduation party, but they have no idea that he has arranged for his estranged father to attend.
Noise
Graham McGahan is a Melbourne police officer beset with a painful ringing sound in his ears. The pain becomes so intense that it causes him to pass out at a train station one night -- the same night a...
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XXY
The story of an intersexual fifteen-year-old and the challenge presented by her medical condition.
Choking Man
A shy dishwasher and the Chinese waitress he adores provide a psychological engine for this intense blend of drama and magic realism.
The Grocer's Son
Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke,...
Days and Clouds
Well-to-do, sophisticated couple Elsa and Michele confront emotional turmoil when Michele confesses he hasn't worked in two months.
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Ben X
As an alternative to getting bullied at school, an autistic teenager retreats into the world of online role-playing games.
The Trap
A man offers an engineer $30,000 to commit a murder, enough money to pay for surgery for the latter's son.
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Under the Bombs
During a cease-fire in the 2006 Lebanon-Israel conflict, a Christian taxi driver brings a Shiite woman from Beirut to the the country's south to scour the rubble of local towns for her son.
The Pope's Toilet
A smuggler wants to provide a public toilet for the thousands who will gather for the pope's visit.