New Currents

• Yang Jin
• China
• 2008
• 150min

The film strictly follows Er Dong’s daily routine excluding any exceptional techniques or mechanism. Er Dong’s mother sends her troublesome son to a Christian missionary school. Th...

New Currents

• Zhao Ye
• China
• 2008
• 92min

Jalainur is a lyrical film depicting a deep sense of regret towards everything that disappears as times change. Zhu Youxiang, who is an engine driver of a steam locomotive in Jalai...

New Currents

• ROH Gyeong-tae
• Korea,France
• 2008
• 88min

[2008 ACF Post - Production Fund]
Director Roh Gyeong-tae tends not to craft the story in a way that helps audiences understand the whole picture at once, but rather do...

New Currents

• Masahide Ichii
• Japan
• 2008
• 88min

‘Women are strong’. This is the main point that director Masahide Ichii wanted to say in his female version of the buddy film, Naked of Defenses. By portraying the story of two wom...

New Currents

• Rajesh SHERA
• India
• 2008
• 82min

After the tragedy of the tsunami, which hit southeast and west Asia in 2004, there have been a lot of films (especially documentaries) that have dealt with the physical damage the ...

New Currents

• Hongqi Li
• China
• 2008
• 80min

Sociological contemplation about awkwardness. Long conversation about a couch, Routine Holliday is a film which can be explained by a simple single line, but at the same time canno...

New Currents

• KIM Tae Gon
• Korea
• 2008
• 115min

After selling the properties from their paretns, Hyung-kuk and Young-ae move into an apartment in a city. Strange things happen around the family as they begin their new life. Thei...

New Currents

• Kanymbek Kassymbekov,Sabit Kurmanbekov
• Kazakhstan
• 2008
• 70min

In a small village where water is scarce, old man Zhake, who had been elected for the past thirty years as town minister, is defeated by a talented young woman. Instead, he is offe...

Korean Cinema Today

• Joung-kwon Kim
• Korea
• 2008
• 99min

A librarian Eun-soo catches Jun-oh damaging some books. The target of the vandalism is page 198 of a certain book. Peaked with curiosity, Eun-soo tries to help Jun-oh, who says his...

Korean Cinema Today

• LEE Kyoung-mi
• Korea
• 2008
• 101min

Students and colleagues regard Yang Mi-suk, a high school Russian teacher who blushes easily because of a facial flushing condition, as unattractive. She has been in love with her ...