A Window on Asian Cinema
The Great Buddha+Pickle is a security guard in a factory making bronze statues of Buddha. He is a poor old bachelor living with his widow mother. His best friend, Belly Button, is a junk dealer. At night, in the security office, Pickle and Belly B...
Wide Angle
The History of HormoneGiho, who wants to be a woman, tries to obtain feminine hormone drugs secretly without his father knowing. When he finally succeeds, Giho starts to carry out his long-time plan.
A Window on Asian Cinema
The InsultToni is a Lebanese Christian who lives in Beirut, and Yasser is a Palestinian refugee. While Yasser is doing repairs on a building, a minor disagreement with Toni, a resident, escalates into a clash and the two face it off in a co...
World Cinema
The IntruderGiovanna is a social worker who runs a local community center, La Masseria, for disadvantaged children. Her good intentions are called into question when she offers the family of a criminal a place to stay. The camera first shows ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The JourneyThe latest film by Iraqi director Mohamed Al Daradji, who gained world renown after the release of Son of Baylon (2009). Bagdad is celebrating the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha in 2006. Sarah is commissioned for a suicide bomb attac...
World Cinema
The Last SuitAbraham Bursztein, an 88-year old Jewish tailor, leaves Buenos Aires for Poland, where he will try to find a friend from the old times who saved him from certain death after surviving Auschwitz. Escaping from his family who want t...
New Currents
The Last VerseIn the summer of 2000, a couple meets at the brightest point of their lives. The Last Verse follows their subsequent stormy 20 years. Ren-jie and Xiao-ping fall in love and promise each other the future together. Ren-jie, who is a...
World Cinema
The Leisure SeekerElla and John decide to go on one last holiday in their old camper van, which they call “The Leisure Seeker.” Leaving their grown-up children behind, they plan to drive the Leisure seeker from Boston to Key West in Florida. Frail ...
World Cinema
The Lion Sleeps TonightThe film starts with the actor, Jean, talking with others on the shooting location, and it continues to show him with a long take for around four minutes. In the following long take scene, Jean says the independent films in the er...
Flash Forward
The Man with the Magic Box2030, in a not so distant dystopian future. Adam escapes from poor part of Warsaw to a new City. With a help of a secret society, Adam gets a flat in an old building and finds a job a cleaner. He falls in love with Goria, a beauti...