The documentary-focused Full Frame Film Festival, to be held in Durham, N.C., from April 3–6, has announced its 2008 film line-up.
Among the entries are James Marsh's Man on Wire, about Frenchman Philippe Petite's balancing act between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974, and the winner of the World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary at Sundance earlier this year; Peter Jordan and John Kane's 12-minute short Left in Baghdad, the story of Iraq War veteran Ross Graydon's search for the right left-arm prosthesis; and Tanaz Eshaghian's Be Like Others, about gays in Iran who are coerced into having sex-change operations in order to be "cured" of their homosexuality.
Also, Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega's Academy Award-nominated short La Corona / The Crown (top photo), about a beauty pageant in Colombia's Good Shepherd women's prison; Alexandra Westmeier's Alone in Four Walls (above), set in a reformatory school for Russian boys; Beate Arnestad's My Daughter the Terrorist, about two women trained as Tamil Black Tiger suicide bombers; and Tamar Yarom's To See If I'm Smiling, which depicts the psychological and emotional damage suffered by six young Israeli women who served in the West Bank.
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