New Currents

• PARK Chan Ok
• Korea
• 2009
• 110min

After studying the masculinity of Korean society in her debut feature [Jealousy Is My Middle Name], director Park Chan Ok turns her eyes on the initiation of a girl who happens to ...

New Currents

• Giuseppe Bede SAMPEDRO
• Philippines
• 2009
• 91min

The story of four men in Manila goes on in the format of an omnibus. Ariel, a con-man, living on manipulating documents and deceiving women, encounters a girl Elgin, and faces the ...

New Currents

• Nosir SAIDOV
• Tajikistan
• 2009
• 83min

This film gives one the impression that they’re watching a piece from the Theatre of the Absurd. The moment humans draw a line on the ground and declare it a borderline, the ground...

New Currents

• Umesh Vinayak KULKARNI
• India
• 2009
• 120min

This is a teen movie about a teenager who experiences the death of a loved one. Sameer and Nachiket are relatives and friends. Nachiket, who is more mature, wants to escape his sti...

Korean Cinema Today

• JUNG Sung-il
• Korea
• 2009
• 197min

Young-soo’s pining for a married woman reminds us of [The Sorrows of Young Werther]. Lost in his despair, he is wandering around Cheong Gye Cheon in Seoul, where he meets Sun-hwa, ...

Korean Cinema Today

• LEE Hey-jun
• Korea
• 2009
• 116min

Here are two islands. On Bam Island located on the Han River lives Mr. Kim, a suicide attemptercastaway. On the other island is Ms. Kim’s home. She casts herself adrift for some re...

Korean Cinema Today

• CHOI Jin Ho
• Korea
• 2009
• 98min

That human nature becoming seriously violent within the system of the death penalty and a jail is what this film serenely gazes into. An execution scheduled to be carried out in 12...

Korean Cinema Today

• JK YOUN
• Korea
• 2009
• 118min

The way in which [Haeundae] develops its plot can be considered a Koreanized transformation of Hollywood romantic narratives in the pre and post 1950’s. Man-sik and Yeon-hee see-sa...

Korean Cinema Today

• HONG Sang-soo
• Korea
• 2009
• 126min

Invited to serve on the jury at a film festival, Director Ku does not care about his supposed-to-dos. Rather, chatting at parties and drinking now seem to be his all time favorites...

Korean Cinema Today

• KWON Chil In
• Korea
• 2009
• 110min

This is director Kwon Chil In’s fourth feature film, which deals with the struggle between work and love. At the fore, we see a married couple. One of the wife’s girlfriends unexpe...