World Cinema

• Peru,Venezuela,Spain
• 2010
• 83min

Clemente, a pawnbroker, is Sofia’s hope to avoid solitude. Being his neighbor and a single woman, she spends her days as an October worshipper of the Lord of the Miracles. One day, Clemente is left with a newborn baby.

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2010
• 140min

Here is a star-studded samurai film: Miike Takashi’s remake of Kudo Eiichi’s 1963 classic of the same name. Set during the era of the Shoguns, thirteen assassins gather around Shinzaemon upon the request of Doi, the Shogun’s close...

Midnight Passion

• France
• 2010
• 115min

After a long, brutal and successful career in the Marseille mafia, Charly Mattei has gone straight. For three years, he has lived a quiet life devoted to his wife and two young children. Then, one winter morning, he is presumed de...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2010
• 124min

A drama about contemporary Poles whose fates interweave in a monumental moment in time. The ‘moment’ refers to an actual event when following the death of the Pope, millions of people manifested their spiritual union by turning of...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2010
• 101min

A film about the love, desire, and despair of people who live in the magnificent and bustling city of Beijing. Li Jia, is a know-it-all that pursues only love, and a girl who roams the streets in rebellion against her father, Zhi ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2010
• 85min

[Masquerade] is directed by Mun Jeong-hyun whose previous piece on the history of Korean war, Grandmother’s Flower earned much attention from the audience. It’s his fourth piece and a documentary which explores the story of a rape...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2010
• 167min

The Kabuki-za, a symbol of Tokyo’s Ginza district, closes its doors for the first time in 60 years for renovation. The actors, having been secure on the stage over the decades, share stories about the theater, their individual exp...

Special Programs in Focus

• Czech Republic
• 2010
• 100min

Director Jan h?ebejk deals with the rather sensitive topic about people who cooperated with the communist government in the past. Pavel, a distinguished psychiatrist is about to receive an award for his life’s work and role as a d...

Wide Angle

• Sweden
• 2010
• 29min

One autumn day two men enjoying a luxury life unknown to a local community attempt to get a free cup of coffee. But their livelihood is lacking morality and their efforts are often unsuccessful. The film is an absurd play and winn...

Wide Angle

• France,Turkey
• 2010
• 16min

Constantinople, 1910. Too many stray dogs in the streets. The new government, influenced by an occidental model of society, calls in specialists to get rid of the dogs, before deciding, finally, to deport 30,000 of them on a deser...