Provincetown International Film Festival 2008

After a concussion leaves him short on short-term memory, Cooper (Matthew Broderick), a Chicago newspaper editor, travels home to Missouri to visit his aging Uncle Rollie (Alan Alda). When Rollie shows Cooper a near-mint-condition Frank "Wildfire" Schulte baseball card, they embark on a journey that thrusts them suddenly into the world of baseball card collectibles and commercialized nostalgia -- exploring the value of memories, and who we are with and without them.

A frustrated waiter at a gay burlesque club is sick of being taken advantage of by the bars demanding dancers. Suddenly he finds himself back in time reliving a day from his childhood that he will never forget.

Getting rid of your childhood toys is never easy as Thomas finds out as he tries to part with his two male dolls when his mother decides to have a garage sale on a weekend afternoon.

This striking animated film depicts the world as knitting, which slowly unravels to nothing.

North American Premiere In the crowd-pleasing spirit of WAKING NED DEVINE, LOCAL HERO and SEDUCING DR. LEWIS, this charming comedy revolves around the remote Portuguese mountain village of Augus Altas, which fights back when a Spanish conglomerate sues them over their town's name-the same name as a bottled water the company plans to launch. In Portuguese with English subtitles.

Steve Martin narrates this portrait of the beloved American painter, Edward Hopper, whose iconic images of American life found in hotel rooms, diners, gas stations, and traditional houses trace a path from New York City to New England and the Outer Cape. Shows with short: PILGRIM MONUMENT (USA, 2007, 15 minutes) This film about the centennial celebration of Provincetown's Pilgrim Monument is by local Provincetown filmmaker Tim McCarthy.

Ellie is a 70-year-old evangelical minister who, after four failed marriages, an exorcism, and thoughts of suicide, finally found the courage to become the woman she had always dreamed of being.

The tiny, isolated community of McMurdo Station on Ross Island, Antarctica is an ideal place for a maverick filmmaker like Werner Herzog to explore. In this land of extremes, he interviews its tenacious residents, documents the unusual survival training every newcomer must complete, ponders nature's mysteries with his ever distinct voiceover, and captures one breathtaking image after another from a cruel, beautiful landscape.

Opening Night Selection! North American Premiere This directorial debut from the multi-talented Madonna is a fresh comedy about three struggling London roommates whose respective aspirations -- singing, dancing, and helping African orphans -- broadly reflect the director's own life path. This cinematic tale of everyday life and extraordinary ambitions has, "a surprising sweetness, and, a charismatic lead performance by Eugene Hutz, frontman of the Gypsy-punk band Gogol Bordello." (The New York Times)