Wide Angle

• Japan,Korea
• 2011
• 133min

The Korean Peninsula, June 2000. The Inter-Korean Summit generates great expectations for unification. In Kawasaki, Japan, similar anticipation is brewing; Reverend Lee In-ha, having devoted his entire life to the Koreans residi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 123min

[The14 Amazons] tells the story of a loyal and faithful family during the Song Dynasty?a story that has been repeatedly recounted in China and Hong Kong through literature, plays, television dramas, and films for years. The sing...

World Cinema

• the Netherlands
• 2011
• 86

19 year old Nick and 16 year old Evy are in love. Knowing that Nick is deaf, Evy’s parents do not consent totheir relationship. The young run away and move intoan abandoned submarine, hidden from judgmental eyes. Their runaway lov...

World Cinema

• Egypt
• 2011
• 125min

[18 Days] was the special Gala screening feature in Guest Country program, a newly established section of Cannes International Film Festival. This omnibus feature consists of ten short films about the Egyptian revolution that shoo...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2011
• 115min

The historic Battle of Warsaw, which broke out in 1920, is the first battle to be won by Poland without any help of other countries since the 17th century. By keeping enemy troops from moving toward Europe, Poland enjoys its newly...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2011
• 25min

Poorly educated, mid-50s ex-convict Kim Chunbae has a hard time getting a job. He’s willing to do anything for his disabled son Minjun, but it’s a tough world for guys like him. This is a film that challenges a society the judges ...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2011
• 94min

2011 AND Busan Bank Fund On March 11, 2011, an earthquake measuring 9 on the Richter scale hit Japan. After the catastrophic earthquake, the effects of the subsequent tsunami and nuclear meltdowns that shook Japan are still being...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2011
• 80min

Banafsheh is behind bars. When she hears Nasser?the father of her unborn baby?has illegally crossed the border out of the country, she decides a trip out of the country on a temporary three-day release in order for her, too. Hanie...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 118min

Five marines volunteer for a special mission ? destroy a North Korean ammunition storehouse. This film tells their personal stories. Newly appointed platoon commander Oh Suk-man who is on bad terms with his father, the battalion c...

New Currents

• SriLanka
• 2011
• 108min

Life, death, and basic human desire?no one can escape from these inevitabilities. [August Drizzle] follows the life of a female mortician and tells a tale of universal human desires. Somalata, a woman mortician, works with Piyasi...