Newport Beach Film Festival 2008

After cheating on Claire, David comes down with a bizarre affliction: he can't get his ex-girlfriend's voice out of his head.

Dayton, Ohio’s Centerville High School and Los Angeles’ Fairfax High School’s marching bands both work toward their ultimate goal of competing, and winning, at regional and national levels. This exciting, funny, and ultimately moving film highlights the disciplined practice of the students as they strive to master the technical aspects of their art, and the life-changing effects of instrumental music education.

In the aftermath of 9/11, America's military might has set the stage. But who will determine the fate of democracy in Afghanistan? Is it possible, a woman running for President? Where unspeakable cruelty to women had become day-to-day life?'Vote for the mother,' Dr. Massouda Jalal shouts to the crowd. This is the heroic story of a medical doctor and mother of three. As a children's advocate, she defied the murderous Taliban regime. Now, she boldly runs for president -- the only woman in a field of 17 candidates. In a dramatic turn of events, she holds the fate of the country's first presidential election in her own hands.

Jack Frost’s carefree bachelorhood in New York is rocked by the news that his oldest girlfriend, Carolina, whom he has loved since childhood is engaged. The news throws him into an existential crisis in which he is forced to really look at his life. At age thirty-five, stuck between a vision of himself from childhood and his failure to grow up, Jack sinks into depression. With the fumbling help of his best friend Scotch Evans, a nightlife correspondent for a local news station; a friendship with Ozzy, a loving but troubled young heroin addict; the prodding of Kate, a reporter writing about playboys in Manhattan; and his eleven-year-old neighbor, Sophie, Jack struggles to overcome doubt and heartbreak and find new meaning in his life.

Jakob Beer is a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during World War II. As a child in Poland, Jakob is orphaned during wartime only to be saved by a compassionate Greek archeologist. Over the course of his life, he attempts to deal with the losses he has endured. Through his writing and the discovery of true love, Jakob is ultimately freed from the legacy of his past. Based on the international bestselling novel by Anne Michaels.

Short films screening in this program include: Catching Rats, Fatherland, The Kolaborator, The Letter, Stars

Short films screening in this program include: The Phone Book, Pivot, Soup Ladle, Wilbur

Josie works as a mechanic in a deadbeat gas station on the periphery of a small Irish town. Seen as the village idiot by a village that doesn't want or need him, Josie is lonely, but he's also somehow content, his beatific expression rarely fading. This is the story of an unflinching depiction of the loneliness of rural life that creates a tale both richly poignant and bitingly funny. Join us immediately following this screening for a celebration honoring tonight's film and Ireland's contribution to the world of filmmaking. The post party is hosted by Muldoons Irish Pub.

A boy - who is also a stalk of garlic - goes out into the world to do good for others. After receiving a case of special garlic tonic from his mother, Garlic Boy uses this potent mixture to cure folk of what ails them.