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Film Festivals 2008

Forbidden Lies (2007)

Director: Anna Broinowski

In 2003 Norma Khouri's book 'Forbidden Love' was published as the true account of the so-called 'honour killing' of her best friend, Dalia. Eighteen m... Read more

Lou Reed's Berlin (2007)

Director: Julian Schnabel
Starring: Fernando Saunders, Lou Reed, Sharon Jones

33 years after Lou Reed's ambitious concept album was deemed a critical failure, director Julian Schnabel ('The Diving Bell and the Butterfly') filmed... Read more

Planet B-Boy (2007)

7.8/10
Director: Benson Lee

An urban dance style that started on the streets of New York City in the 1970s, B-boying would become an important building block in the formation of... Read more

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)

7.9/10
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Starring: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean

Set in 1980s Bucharest during Ceaucescu's brutal reign, this intense drama centres on two young women, one of whom finds herself pregnant. Her best fr... Read more

Mongol (Blu-ray) (2007)

7.2/10
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Sun Honglei, Khulan Chuluun

Exploring the rise of one of the world's most feared and fearless warriors, the story of Genghis Khan is still a controversial one. In the West his na... Read more

Mongol (2007)

7.3/10
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Sun Honglei, Khulan Chuluun

Exploring the rise of one of the world's most feared and fearless warriors, the story of Genghis Khan is still a controversial one. In the West his na... Read more

Outsourced (2007)

7.5/10
Director: John Jeffcoat
Starring: Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker, Larry Pine

Todd Anderson (Josh Hamilton) gets the bad news from his boss: his job has been outsourced. Adding insult to injury, Todd must travel to India to trai... Read more

The Orphanage (2007)

7.5/10
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Starring: Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Geraldine Chaplin, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera

A gothic chiller featuring a woman returning to the now-closed orphanage where she was raised. Laura and her husband plan to reopen it as a home for d... Read more

The Savages (2007)

7.2/10
Director: Tamara Jenkins
Starring: Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman, David Zayas

Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman play estranged siblings who are forced to deal with each other when their elderly father's dementia proves too... Read more

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

8.1/10
Director: Seth Gordon
Starring: Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell, Walter Day

A terrifically entertaining documentary full of drama, tension, humanity and humour following the world champion of classic '80s video game Donkey Kon... Read more