Korean Cinema Today

• KANG Mi-Ja
• Korea
• 2008
• 75min

This film is an adaptation of a novel by Yanbian authors, Liang Chun-sik and Kim Nam-hyun. It describes the romantic stories of seventeen-year-old boys and girls, which can be appl...

Korean Cinema Today

• BOO Ji-young
• Korea
• 2008
• 96min

After their mother’s funeral, Myung-eun proposes her half sister Myung-ju a trip to where her father lives. Not theirs, but hers. A hard-grained career woman Myung-eun wants to rec...

Korean Cinema Today

• KIM So Yong
• United States,Korea
• 2008
• 89min

2005 PPP 프로젝트 Six-year-old Jin and Bin are sisters. Their mother sends them to their aunt’s house in the countryside since she can’t afford to raise them. However, the alco...

Korean Cinema Today

• Jinsung Park
• Korea
• 2008
• 110min

This film is a horror chronicle adapted from Russian author Gogol’s VIY. A witch has never surfaced in Korean culture; it was only an existence in imaginations through western nove...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Danyar Salamat
• Kazakhstan
• 2008
• 80min

Together With My Father, a family drama by director Daniyar Salamat, portrays the warm love between father and son. Karim, a teacher of carpentry at a school, is divorced and livin...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Samira Makhmalbaf
• Iran
• 2008
• 97min

From a sabotaged land comes the cries of a man who wants a boy for one dollar per day. Children all of sudden come out from everywhere and run to him to get this job. Among them, G...

Midnight Passion

• Jen Hao Chien
• Hong Kong,China,Taiwan
• 2008
• 80min

Wei is the “button man”, an expert cleaner for the gang, a man who comes after a murder scene, takes care of the victim, disposing the body and leaving no evidence behind. Wei’s pa...

Open Cinema

• Kazuya Konaka
• Japan
• 2008
• 98min

Tokyo Girl is a fantasy that portrays the love of two youngsters going back and forth in time. Miho, who lives in 2008, drops her cellular phone down a staircase. The phone is foun...

Closing Film

• Yoon Jong-Chan
• Korea
• 2008
• 113min

After his scandalous films, Yoon Jong-chan came back with another story aboutwounded souls. The director used a horror plot in his outstanding debut Sorum todescribe the mentality ...

Open Cinema

• Philipp Stölzl
• Austria,Germany,Czech Republic
• 2008
• 126min

In the summer of 1936, two German climbers make plans to become the first to scale Eiger’s notorious North Face. The “Nordwand” has long been considered the most challenging of cli...