2007 Film Guide

This stop-motion animated short mixes kitsch and popular culture in a multilayered story that tackles heavy subjects with a light touch. more...

Working from a source novel by Blake Nelson about a high-school skateboarder trying to make sense of his involvement in an accidental murder, Gus Van Sant carries his ongoing experiments with image and sound design to new levels of sophistication. (The cameraman is the brilliant Christopher Doyle.) The result is a fragmentary, dreamlike portrait of teen alienation.--LA Weekly more...

The Ayatollah Khomeini meets Iron Maiden in this spirited adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's celebrated graphic novel. When Iran's Islamic Revolution hits home, nine-year-old Marjane remains determined to discover all that life has to offer, including punk rock, boys and rebellion. more...

The story of a fetus who gets around. Pickled travels through the lives of a group of small-town artists. (Note: controversial content.) more...

Spanning the globe from Kenya to Greenland, directors Michael Stenberg, Johan Soderberg and Linus Torell compile startling new evidence of a dying planet. An exploding human population, coupled with metastasizing industrial growth, means that we will soon outstrip the earth's ability to sustain life. more...

Imaginary friends grow up too, but they still remain friends... and imaginary. more...

In Room 603, a married couple are starting to fall apart because the husband has invited the luscious 19-year-old Ploy up to rest while she waits for her mother. In Room 609, a barman and maid are role-playing their way through an extremely sensual sexual encounter. Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s latest is an inimitable reflection on relationships (their strengths and fault-lines) and the fears and desires that surface in dreams. more...

In a world of boxing and racial tension, Clement Virgo (Lie With Me, VIFF 05) hauntingly portrays the human complexity of fear, rage and forgiveness in his fourth feature. With nuanced performances from Danny Glover, Rossif Sutherland and Flex Alexander. more...

Potosí, Bolivia, was once one of the largest and richest cities in the world, thanks to its devilish silver mines. At 4,100 metres, it's also the highest. Three decades after filmmaker Ron Havilio (Fragments* Jerusalem) and his wife spent their honeymoon there, they return to richly chronicle the present and the passing of time. more...

Gad Elmaleh (last seen in parking cars in The Valet) stars with Audrey Tautou in this frothy French confection from writer/director Pierre Salvadori. Underneath the glorious sun of the Cote d'Azur, a scheming seductress is taken for a romantic ride by a lowly hotel worker. more...

Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi... Marc Emery? Is his fight against extradition to the United States for selling weed seeds also about Canadian sovereignty, unjust prohibition and silencing political dissidence? Nick Wilson's provocative documentary asks this and more about one of Vancouver's most notorious residents. more...

Loosely based on Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, John Gianvito's poetic essay eloquently captures the vanishing tradition of American radical idealism as seen through a guided tour of the final resting places of some of its most controversial political figures (including Malcolm X, Eugene V. Debs, and Sacco and Vanzetti). more...