International Diaspora Film Festival 08
Toronto, 5 to 9 November 2008
2008 Schedule
To see the film descriptions please click on the titles.
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
- Don't Look Down (No mires para abajo)
- 7:00 pm
- Eliseo Subiela
- Winner, Best Director
Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival - Argentina, 2008, 85 min.
In Spanish with English subtitles - Toronto premiere
- Adam’s Wall
- 9:00 pm
- Michael MacKenzie
- Toronto premiére
- Canada, 2008, 94 min.
In English - Co-presented with Voices Forward
Thursday, 6 November 2008
- Lark Farm (La masseria delle allodole)
- 6:45 pm
- Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
- Italy/France/Bulgaria/Spain, 2007, 114 min.
In Italian with English subtitles - Actor Arsinee Khanjian in attendance.
- From My Window, without a Home
(De ma fenêtre, sans maison...) 
- 9:15 pm
- Maryanne Zéhil
- Canada/Lebanon, 2007, 88 min.
In French and Arabic, with English subtitles - Toronto premiere
Director in attendance.
Friday, 7 November 2008
- Buddha Collapsed out of Shame
(Buda az sharm foro rikht) 
- 9:00 pm
- Hana Makhmalbaf
- Winner, Crystal Bear, Peace Film Award, Berlin Film Festival, Jury Award, San Sebastian Film Festival
- France/Iran, 2007, 81 min.
In Farsi with English subtitles
Saturday, 8 November 2008
- Dunya and Desie Go to Morocco
- 3:00 pm
- Dana Nechushtan
- The Netherlands, 2007, 88 min.
In Dutch and Arabic with English subtitles - Toronto premiere
- Official Holland entry for the Oscar 2009
- Diaspora in Short
- 5:00 pm - FREE ADMISSION
- Blonde
- Wing, The Fish that Talks Back
- Rafas Ruls
- Fair Trade
- It’s My Turn
- Season of Soil
- Where the Hell is Matt?
- Faces (Chehreh-haa)
- 7:00 pm
- Shahin Parhami
- Canada, 2007, 92 min.
In Farsi, English, and French with English subtitles - Toronto premiere, Winner, Best Feature, Sydney Film Festival 2007.
Director and cast will be in attendance.
Book launch, "Faces, Bodies, Personas: Tracing Cuban Stories" by Babak Salari
- Where Are You Going Moshé?
(Fine mashi ya moché?) 
- 9:15 pm
- Hassan ben Jalloun
- Canada/Morocco, 2007, 90 min.
In Arabic and French with English subtitles - Co-presented with the Toronto Jewish Film Festival
Sunday, 9 November 2008
- Kidz in da Hood (FÖRORTSUNGAR)
- 3:00 pm
- Ylva Gustavsson & Catti Edfeldt
- Winner, 5 Swedish Oscars for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Music
- Sweden, 2007, 96 min.
In Swedish with English subtitles - Canadian premiere
- Paperbird (Haus der Wünsche)
- 5:00 pm
- Vanessa van Houten
- Germany, 2007, 101 min.
In English - Canadian premiere
- Warchild
- 7:00 pm
- Christian Wagner
- Winner, Special Award, Bavarian Film Festival; Best Screenplay, Montreal Film Festival
- Germany/Slovenia, 2007, 103 min.
In Serbian and German with English subtitles
- Berlin – 1st of May (Berlin – 1. Mai)
- 9:00 pm
- J.-C. Glaser, C. Ludwig, S. Taddicken, J. Ziemnicki
- Opening Night, Perspective German Cinema, Berlin Film Festival 2008
- Germany, 2008, 98 min.
In German and Turkish with English subtitles - Canadian premiere