My personal Berlinale Ranking - 2008
by dziwnytenswiat | created - 18 Feb 2012 | updated - 24 Feb 2013 | PublicA ranking from films I saw at the Berlinale 2008. Average Vote for the Festival: 6,52
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1. Kabei: Our Mother (2008)
Not Rated | 133 min | Drama
Based on childhood days of Teruyo Nogami.
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Mayumi Tanaka, Chieko Baishô, Mirai Shida
Votes: 1,518 | Gross: $0.01M
Competition - 10/10
2. Zuo you (2008)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
A divorced couple learns that the way to possibly save daughter, who is suffering from blood cancer, is to have another child. Problem is: They're both already remarried.
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Weiwei Liu, Jia-yi Zhang, Nan Yu, Taishen Cheng
Votes: 773
Competition - 10/10
3. Katyn (2007)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, History, War
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Danuta Stenka
Votes: 17,416 | Gross: $0.12M
Competition (Out of Competion) - 9/10
4. Three Women (2008)
94 min | Drama
Forty-something single mother Minoo is a product of the Islamic Revolution, a generation of women repressed by changes in law under the new Islamic Republic. Her daughter Pegah is a ... See full summary »
Director: Manijeh Hekmat | Stars: Niki Karimi, Pegah Ahangarani, Babak Hamidian, Reza Kianian
Votes: 351
Section Panorama - 8/10
5. Lemon Tree (2008)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, War
The story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemontree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.
Director: Eran Riklis | Stars: Hiam Abbass, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Ali Suliman, Doron Tavory
Votes: 6,882 | Gross: $0.57M
Section Panorama - 8/10
6. Worlds Apart (2008)
116 min | Drama
The daughter of a Jehovah's Witness is forced to choose between religion and love when she falls for someone outside her faith.
Director: Niels Arden Oplev | Stars: Rosalinde Mynster, Pilou Asbæk, Jens Jørn Spottag, Sarah Boberg
Votes: 3,471
14plus - 8/10
7. Ben X (2007)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Thriller
As an alternative to getting bullied at school, an autistic teenager retreats into the world of online role-playing games.
Director: Nic Balthazar | Stars: Marijke Pinoy, Greg Timmermans, Cesar De Sutter, Gilles De Schryver
Votes: 19,381 | Gross: $0.00M
14plus - 8/10
8. City of Men (2007)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
Director: Paulo Morelli | Stars: Douglas Silva, Darlan Cunha, Jonathan Haagensen, Rodrigo dos Santos
Votes: 16,296 | Gross: $0.31M
14plus - 8/10
9. Beautiful (2008)
88 min | Drama
Eun-young is a woman cursed with great beauty. Wherever she goes, she gets unwanted admiration from men and jealousy from women. One day, one of her stalking admirer invades her place.
Director: Jai-hong Juhn | Stars: Su-yeon Cha, Lee Cheon-hee, Choi Moo-seong, Min-soo Kim
Votes: 1,042
Section Panorama - 8/10
10. The Black Balloon (2008)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Romance
All Thomas wants is a normal adolescence but his autistic brother, Charlie, thwarts his every opportunity. Will Thomas, with the help of his girlfriend, Jackie, accept his brother?
Director: Elissa Down | Stars: Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford, Toni Collette, Erik Thomson
Votes: 9,237 | Gross: $0.09M
14plus - 7/10
11. Julia (2008)
R | 144 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman tries to extort money, using a young boy as bait.
Director: Erick Zonca | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Aidan Gould
Votes: 6,957 | Gross: $0.00M
Competition - 7/10
12. The Song of Sparrows (2008)
PG | 96 min | Drama, Family
When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes ... See full summary »
Director: Majid Majidi | Stars: Mohammad Amir Naji, Maryam Akbari, Kamran Dehghan, Hamid Aghazi
Votes: 11,115 | Gross: $0.12M
Competition - 7/10
13. Det som ingen ved (2008)
99 min | Drama, Thriller
Thomas' sister is a journalist and wants to talk to him but "drowns" just before. In her apartment he finds papers about biochemical weapons and the Danish intelligence agency their dead dad was in. Thomas investigates.
Director: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Stars: Anders W. Berthelsen, Maria Bonnevie, Ghita Nørby, Marie Louise Wille
Votes: 1,419
Section Panorama - 7/10
14. Somers Town (2008)
Not Rated | 71 min | Comedy, Drama
A black-and-white study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy.
Director: Shane Meadows | Stars: Piotr Jagiello, Ireneusz Czop, Perry Benson, Thomas Turgoose
Votes: 6,724 | Gross: $0.05M
14plus - 7/10
15. Megane (2007)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
Taeko is a stressed career woman who leaves her life in the city for an island vacation. The vacation does not become what she expected as everyone on the island is strange.
Director: Naoko Ogigami | Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Mikako Ichikawa, Ryô Kase, Ken Mitsuishi
Votes: 1,890
Section Panorama - 7/10
16. Son of a Lion (2007)
92 min | Drama, War
11 year old Niaz's father has been a Pashtun on jihad in Afghanistan. Back in Darra in NWFP of Pakistan, where guns and hashish are common, he wants Niaz to learn to shoot and work in his gun workshop, while Niaz wants to go to school.
Director: Benjamin Gilmour | Stars: Niaz Khan Shinwari, Sher Alam Miskeen Ustad, Baktiyar Ahmed Afridi, Anousha Vasif Shinwari
Votes: 240
Forum - 7/10
17. Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
A coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl trying to fit into both a posh private school and an ordinary public school.
Director: Cathy Randall | Stars: Danielle Catanzariti, Cassandra Jinman, Talia Monaghan, Yen Yen Stender
Votes: 1,515 | Gross: $0.01M
Children Section - 7/10
18. Sleep Dealer (2008)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
The near future. Like tomorrow. In a world marked by closed borders, corporate warriors, and a global computer network, three strangers risk their lives to connect, break through the barriers of technology, and unseal their fates.
Director: Alex Rivera | Stars: Luis Fernando Peña, Leonor Varela, Jacob Vargas, Metztli Adamina
Votes: 6,687 | Gross: $0.08M
Section Panorama - 6/10
19. Feuerherz (2008)
92 min | Biography, Drama, War
The true story of a young female soldier who comes of age during the Eritrean civil war.
Director: Luigi Falorni | Stars: Letekidan Micael, Solomie Micael, Seble Tilahun, Daniel Seyoum
Votes: 227
Competition - 6/10
20. Eskalofrío (2008)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
Santi, a young high-school student with a serious physical reaction to sunlight, is forced by his health to move with his single mother to a shadowy, isolated village in the mountains of ... See full summary »
Director: Isidro Ortiz | Stars: Junio Valverde, Francesc Orella, Mar Sodupe, Jimmy Barnatán
Votes: 3,483
Section Panorama - 6/10
21. One Day You'll Understand (2008)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Hippolyte Girardot, Emmanuelle Devos, Dominique Blanc
Votes: 374 | Gross: $0.15M
Berlinale Special - 5/10
22. El camino (IV) (2008)
90 min | Drama
Two young Nicaraguan children, Saslaya and her mute brother Dario, must travel to Costa Rica to find their long-lost mother.
Director: Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez | Stars: Sherlin Paola Velásquez, Juan Borda, Morena Guadalupe Espinoza, Marcos Ulises Jiménez
Votes: 108
Forum - 5/10
23. Love and Other Crimes (2008)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An unsatisfied woman in her late 30s dreams about stealing the big cash and leaving the country. She meets a petty criminal ten years her junior who has the thing for her, and she asks herself is he the only true love of her life.
Director: Stefan Arsenijevic | Stars: Anica Dobra, Vuk Kostic, Milena Dravic, Fedja Stojanovic
Votes: 711
Section Panorama - 4/10
24. La fabrique des sentiments (2008)
104 min | Drama
A successful woman searches for romance by speed dating in this drama. Eloise has a great job and a great education, but she's looking for love. Can a couple of minutes be the key to finding true love?
Director: Jean-Marc Moutout | Stars: Elsa Zylberstein, Jacques Bonnaffé, Bruno Putzulu, Hiam Abbass
Votes: 300
Section Panorama - 4/10
25. Flower in the Pocket (2007)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Two boys, Li Ahh and Li Ohm, grow up motherless. Their father, Sui, is a workaholic who shuts himself out of the world. The boys' quest to reach out to their father leads them to adopt a ... See full summary »
Director: Seng Tat Liew | Stars: Zi Jiang Wong, Ming Wei Lim, James Lee, Amira Nasuha
Votes: 192
Children Section - 3/10
26. Sonetàula (2008)
157 min | Drama
A Sardinian boy torn from his father by false accusations is raised by his grandfather and becomes an outlaw.
Director: Salvatore Mereu | Stars: Francesco Falchetto, Manuela Martelli, Serafino Spiggia, Antonio Crisponi
Votes: 132
Section Panorama - 3/10
27. Corroboree (2007)
Unrated | 95 min | Drama, Mystery
A beautiful young man has been summoned to an eerie meditation retreat by a dying theatre director. The young man has been given a tape of instructions; over a weekend he must perform ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Hackworth | Stars: Conor O'Hanlon, Rebecca Frith, Natasha Herbert, Susan Lyons
Votes: 128
Forum - 1/10
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