World Cinema

• Jean-Jacques BEINEIX
• France
• 2009
• 117min

Jules, a mailman who likes opera, secretly records Cynthia Hawkins’s voice at a concert. Two unknown Asians try to steal his tape. On the other hand, as a prostitute takes a tape r...

World Cinema

• Theo ANGELOPOULOS
• Greece,Russia,Germany,Italy
• 2009
• 125min

In [The Dust of Time], Greek master Theo Angelopoulos weaves the story of one family with 20th century history and brings the socio-political landscape of the time into relief. Typ...

World Cinema

• Costa GAVRAS
• France,Italy,Greece
• 2009
• 111min

Elias left his motherland Greece and got on a boat to Paris; on the way, he threw himself into the ocean to avoid the police. Coincidently sneaked into a resort, he hangs out with ...

World Cinema

• Goran PASKALIJEVIC
• Serbia,Albania
• 2009
• 95min

In the early part of the 20th century, New York’s Ellis Island was the gateway to the Promised Land, the first port of landing for generation after generation’s immigrant journeys ...

World Cinema

• Patrice CHÉREAU
• France
• 2009
• 90min

Daniel works as a handyman in a newly rising building, and he sleeps there. Due to his free but rebellious personality, few people pay visit to him except an unknown mentally chall...

World Cinema

• Andrzej WAJDA
• Poland
• 2009
• 84min

Andrzej Wajda turns his camera toward the subject of death in his latest film, [Sweet Rush], a triptych that connects an adaptation of a short story by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (a Waj...

World Cinema

• Marco BELLOCCHIO
• Italy
• 2009
• 128min

Ida fell love with Mussolini at first sight, and she actively supports Mussolini with her socialistic daily paper ‘Avanti’. After becoming right wing, she commits all her fortune t...

World Cinema

• Claire DENIS
• France
• 2009
• 100min

[Chocolat] catapulted Claire Denis onto the world cinema stage, a film about a young woman recalling her coming-of-age in Africa. With [White Material], Denis returns to the land o...

World Cinema

• Michael HANEKE
• Germany,France,Austria,Italy
• 2009
• 145min

The best film of 2009 and winner of the Palme d′Or at Cannes this year, it was selected as The Best Film of the Year by the world’s biggest critic’s association, FIPRESCI. However,...

World Cinema

• Elchin GULIYEV
• Azerbaijan
• 2009
• 82min

Among the petty street thugs and young hustlers living in the far-flung outskirts of Baku is Rustam, a teenaged boy with aspirations to musical stardom. Upon hearing of his father’...