Korean Cinema Today
Notebook from My MotherAeran, a hardworking mother who runs a side-dish store in the neighborhood, and her son, Gyuhyon, a part-time instructor, whom she considers incompetent, do not get on well. The son abhors his mother’s prickliness, but he isn’t sw...
Flash Forward
Oblivion VersesThe body of an unidentified woman hidden by the militia is found in a remote morgue. An elderly caretaker, a gravedigger, a woman looking for her missing daughter, and a wounded hearse driver are here. They decide to give her a pr...
Flash Forward
Okafor′s LawUnabashed ladies’ man Chuks?also called Terminator?revels in female attention, and is convinced that once he’s had a woman, she’s his forever. It’s Okafor’s Law. He explains this to his baffled friends when they discover he’s sedu...
Korean Cinema Today
OkjaOften in the work of Bong Joon Ho, an incident, a monster, or a person wreaks havoc and creates cracks in the system. In Memories of Murder, the serial killer reveals the stark reality of Korean society in the 80s. In The Host, th...
Korean Cinema Today
Old LoveOne winter day, a man and a woman meet after 25 years by chance encounter at Incheon Airport. She was visiting Korea to see her mother who has Alzheimer’s disease, and he was seeing off his daughter on her way to study in Australi...
A Window on Asian Cinema
OmertaBased on the biography of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British-born terrorist who kidnapped and murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002, Omerta explores in depth an individual’s shift from religious belief to in...
Wide Angle
On Happiness RoadA woman’s biographical animation featuring her story through the modern history of Taiwan, similar to the democratization process of South Korea. Lin was born in 1975 when Chiang Kai-shek passed away. As a young child, she moves f...
Wide Angle
One Hundred and One DalmatiansWhen a litter of Dalmatian puppies is abducted by the minions of Cruella de Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. One Hundred and One Dalmatians is a 1961 American animated advent...
New Currents
One Night on the WharfOne Night on the Wharf is a satirical black comedy with unique characters in a series of accidents. The members of a poetry-loving club in a village near the Yangtze leave for a picnic. After flirting with the worker at the snack ...
World Cinema
Orchestra ClassOnce a talented violinist, but now dulled by life, Simon is freshly inspired by his student Arnold. Chubby and shy, Arnold is a born musician, whose passion will lead his class and Simon, to a triumphant yearend concert at the Par...