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2008-09-01T06:43:00+01:00

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Competition

Achilles And The Tortoise (Takeshi Kitano)

L'Autre (Patrick Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic)

Birdwatchers(Marco Bechis)

The Burning Plain (Guillermo Arriaga)

Giovanni's Father (Pupi Avati)

The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)

Il Seme Della Discordia (Pappi Corsicato)

Inju, The Beast In The Shadow (Barbet Scroeder)

Inland (Tariq Teguia)

Jerichow (Christian Petzold)

A Perfect Day (Ferzan Ozpetek)

Milk (Semih Kaplanoglu)

Paper Soldier (Aleksey German Jr)

Les Plages D'Agnes (Agnes Varda)

Plastic City (Yu Lik-Wai)

Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea (Hayao Miyazaki)

Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)

The Sky Crawlers (Mamoru Oshii)

Teza (Haile Gerima)

Tonight (Nuit De Chien) (Werner Schroeter)

Vegas: Based On A True Story (Amir Naderi)

The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)

Critics Week

Cold Lunch (Eva Sorhaug)

Kabuli Kid (Barmak Akram)

Horizons

Goodbye Solo(Ramin Bahrani)

I'm Gonna Explode (Gerardo Naranjo)

Z32 (Avi Mograbi)

Event Horizons

Valentino: The Last Emperor (Matt Tyrnauer)

Venice Days

Broken Lines (Sallie Aprahamian)

Country Teacher (Bohdan Slama)

Machan (Uberto Pasolini)

Nowhere Man (Patrice Toye)

Out Of Competition

Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)

Shirin (Abbas Kiarostami)

Vinyan (Fabrice Du Welz)

35 Shots Of Rum (Claire Denis)

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