World Cinema

• Israel,Australia
• 2008
• 78min

Animator Tatia Rosenthal’s stop motion feature is about the meaning of life. An ad boasting all the answers you could possibly need-for under ten dollars-peaks the interest of Dave Peck. Dave is twenty-eight years old, lives at ho...

New Currents

• Philippines
• 2008
• 117min

100, the directing debut of Chris Martinez, tells the story of the last days of a cancer patient. A subject like this can make for a very depressing movie; however, the tone of 100 is different from most movies about death. If the...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2008
• 121min

Royston Tan who introduced ‘Getai,’ a unique part of Singaporean culture in his film 881, now interweaves Getai and a woman’s unfortunate life in 12 Lotus. While emphasizing the qualities of musicals such as colorful costumes, gro...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 115min

This documentary tells a variety of stories about “T” from three FTMs (Female-To-Male). They talk about similar but different dilemmas and troubles. The dilemmas that each person goes through holds social, cultural, personal, and...

World Cinema

• France,Germany
• 2008
• 100min

Director Claire Denis returns with one of the most accessible, characteristically incisive films of her career. A widowed man, Lionel, and his daughter Josephine, are at the center of a larger story about a group of France’s worki...

New Currents

• Thailand
• 2008
• 106min

This is the story of couples seeking a second opportunity. The film follows the love and break-ups of three couples in 1972 and 1999. The first couple, Pakorn and Phone, are homosexuals. The second couple, Arunaya and Krung, meet ...

World Cinema

• Israel,France
• 2008
• 107min

The mourning ritual is like a show. Grief is staged and the mourner expresses his grief before the community. The mourner does not express sorrow in the same way when he or she is alone. You must show your grief to your community ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2008
• 115min

This compilation consists of 7 short fiction films and 3 short documentaries, directed by 10 filmmakers, visual artists and musicians to honor the tenth anniversary of Indonesian Reform era. Each film highlights a different viewp...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2008
• 90min

Followed by 1950s’ Gekko Kamen, 1960s’ Ultraman and robot heroes, the Masked Rider was the super hero of 1970s in Japan. The concept of ‘a man becoming a cyborg’ reveals how Japanese feels about a machine civilization ? both wonde...

World Cinema

• Lithuania
• 2008
• 84min

In the aftermath of her father’s traumatizing death, Gaile, a children’s speech therapist, finds herself unable to feel any kind of emotion. But when a series of videotaped events-increasingly aggressive and hideous-stoke dormant ...