2008 New York Film Festival

The 46th New York Film Festival ran from September 26 to October 12, 2008. In addition to screening the feature films listed below, which were often preceded by short films, the festival ran a sidebar retrospective of the films of controversial Japanese director Nagisa Oshima. The festival also included its twelfth annual series Views from the Avant-Garde, showcasing a variety of experimental films.

Main slate

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English title Original title Director(s) Country
Opening Night The Class Entre les murs Laurent Cantet   France
Centerpiece Changeling Clint Eastwood   United States
Closing Night The Wrestler Darren Aronofsky   United States
English title Original title Director(s) Country
24 City 二十四城记/二十四城記
Er shi si cheng ji
Jia Zhangke   China
Afterschool Antonio Campos   United States
Ashes of Time Redux Dung che sai duk redux Wong Kar-wai   Hong Kong
Bullet in the Head Tiro en la cabeza Jaime Rosales   Spain
Che (Part I: The Argentine and Part II: Guerilla) Steven Soderbergh   United States
Chouga Shuga Darezhan Omirbaev   Kazakhstan
A Christmas Tale Un conte de Noël Arnaud Desplechin   France
Four Nights With Anna Cztery noce z Anna Jerzy Skolimowski   Poland
Gomorrah Gomorra Matteo Garrone   Italy
Happy-Go-Lucky Mike Leigh   United Kingdom
The Headless Woman La mujer sin cabeza Lucrecia Martel   Argentina
Hunger Steve McQueen   United Kingdom
I'm Gonna Explode Voy a explotar Gerardo Naranjo   Mexico
Let It Rain Parlez-moi de la pluie Agnès Jaoui   France
Night and Day Bam guan nat Hong Sang-soo   South Korea
The Northern Land A Corte do Norte João Botelho   Portugal
Service Serbis Brillante Mendoza   Philippines
Summer Hours L'heure d'été Olivier Assayas   France
Tokyo Sonata Tôkyô sonata Kiyoshi Kurosawa   Japan
Tony Manero Pablo Larrain   Chile
Tulpan Sergey Dvortsevoy   Kazakhstan
Waltz with Bashir ואלס עם באשיר
Vals Im Bashir
Ari Folman   Israel
Wendy and Lucy Kelly Reichardt   United States
The Windmill Movie Alexander Olch   United States

Selection committee

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