Jacksonville Film Festival 2008

A ventriloquist’s relationship is strained with his dummy after they lose their job with a vaudevillian theatre. The ventriloquist uses his talents to scam poor farmers for money; much to the dummy’s dismay.

One man's life and death struggle for a candy bar...

A lonely New York cellist struggles to cope with the gulit of his dark past while his neighbor, a Jewish immigrant from Germany struggles with another kind of pain.

The true story of the Nyange students, attacked by rebels in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide - whose refusal to betray each other cost some of them everything, but gave hope to a nation.

Little Wing is now sure. Grandmother should be returned to China. Fantasy and reality begin to mingle in a story concerning an old lady who does not talk, some fish, and a cup of tea. We see this film through the eyes of Wing, who creates a totally artificial world for herself and doesn’t allow real life to get in. Her world is always miraculous, sometimes weird and frightening.

A successful New York journalist, Christopher Rockett, 36, is a man who feels everything in his work and nothing in his life. When his estranged father suffers a stroke, he's forced to return to his tiny hometown in Florida, where the events of his dysfunctional past swirl around him. As his charming veneer crumbles, Chris comes to a dramatic realization: If he doesn't learn how to feel, he's destined to relive the empty life of his father, who is dying alone. “The Year of Getting to Know Us,” is a story about what we all fear most: Becoming just like our parents. The film stars Sharon Stone, Jimmy Falon, Lucy Liu, Tom Arnold and lleana Douglas. The annual Film Festival Gala will immediately follow. East Coast Premiere There will be a pre-film cocktail reception one hour before the screening.

A zoo keeper manages to anger one of the zoo’s animals and has to go into hiding.