History

World Premiere

Wide Angle

School
  • WEI Tie
  • China
  • 2009
  • 83min

What is going on in Chinese elementary schools where students go to school with red scarfs? The film captures the campus life of students and teachers in detail, such as gossiping ...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Breezy Day
  • JUNG Jiwon
  • Korea
  • 2009
  • 36min

Two old ladies who never had a chance to go to school because of their gender are now almost 70. For the first time, they are given an opportunity to study arithmetic and Hangul at...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Dance of Time
  • SONG Il-gon
  • Korea
  • 2009
  • 90min

The director, who admired Che Guevara, was preparing for a melodrama based in Cuba when he came across a story about the Chosun people who were sent to Cuba and forced to live ther...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Inter View
  • LEE MiYoung
  • Korea
  • 2009
  • 32min

Having dealt with the issue of coal mines in Sabook, the director now poses the insightful question of point of view, the fundamental element of cinema. The film utilizes the form ...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Resilience
  • Tammy CHU
  • Korea,United States
  • 2009
  • 76min

Myoung-ja, who has sent her son Brent (Sung-wook) abroad to be adopted meets him after 30 years and spends a special time with him. They meet for the first time on national TV, the...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Sona, the Other Myself
  • YANG Yonghi
  • Korea,Japan
  • 2009
  • 82min

Yang Yong-hi has already told a personal tale of North Korea through her previous film [Dear Pyongyang]. This time, she introduces ‘Sona’, the daughter of her brother who moved to ...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Bilal
  • Sourav SARANGI
  • India,Finland
  • 2009
  • 88min

Observing the life of a toddler boy, Bilal, who still needs a lot of care, and his blind parents is fascinating yet uneasy and dangerous. Unlike his parents, their kids are not bli...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Children Metal Divers
  • Ralston G. JOVER
  • Philippines
  • 2009
  • 125min

A ′cinema verite′ style film filled with snapshots of young kids jumping in the ocean to collect junk in the slums of Baceko Philippines. These children, known as the Bakal Boys, f...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Disorder
  • HUANGWeikai
  • China
  • 2009
  • 58min

“At times the news is more dramatic than the movie.” This is the theme and intent of Disorder. The movie shows about twenty different actual events without intervention, exposing a...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Father and Son
  • YUAN He
  • China
  • 2009
  • 169min

At eighty-four years of age, Master Cai is the last great Naxi folk musician on the north shore of the Jinsha River. He depends on his mentally-disabled son for a living. With litt...

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