Provincetown International Film Festival 2008

ASK NOT is a rare and compelling exploration of the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. The film exposes the tangled political battles that led to the discriminatory law, and profiles activists determined to abolish it. As the war rages on, ASK NOT reveals personal stories of gay Americans who serve in combat under a veil of secrecy.

In the mid-1920s, thousands of Jewish immigrant garment workers managed to catapult themselves out of urban slums by pooling their resources and building four cooperatively owned and run apartment complexes in the Bronx. They believed that owning one's home went a long way toward controlling one's fate.

Come celebrate the inspiring careers of this year's honorees: Quentin Tarantino (Filmmaker on the Edge), Jane Lynch (Faith Hubley Memorial Award sponsored by the Ritchie-Davis Foundation) and Gael Garcia Bernal (Excellence in Acting).

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, two filmmakers, drawn together by outrage, embark on a sixty-day road trip from New England to New Orleans. Along the way they meet evacuees and witness the loss, dignity, perseverance and humor of people who have become exiles in their own country.

Two utter strangers uncover astonishing connections as they search for a mysterious Renaissance painting.

EXCELLENCE IN ACTING: GAEL GARCIA BERNAL

After attending an underground film festival, four aspiring, desperate actors take an impromptu trip to a secluded cabin in the woods to write a screenplay that they can star in. However, a mysterious stranger wearing a bag over his or her head repeatedly terrorizes the group-or is one of them just messing with the others?

Set in the majestic landscape of the Mississippi Delta, a story unfolds about the repercussions from a suicide within a poor family in a small town. Nonprofessionals all, the three main actors' nuanced performances accentuate the tentative ties that uneasily bind together a solitary bachelor, his brother's embittered ex-girlfriend and her troubled 12-year-old son. An acclaimed and courageous first feature.

An intimate and unflinching look at life in Iran, seen through the lens of those living at its fringes, BE LIKE OTHERS is a provocative look at a generation of young Iranian men choosing to undergo sex change surgery.