World Cinema
TangerineIt's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a missio...
A Window on Asian Cinema
TaxiAcclaimed Iranian film director Jafar Panahi cruises the streets of Tehran in a taxi. Having been forbidden to produce films for the next 20 years and on house arrest for propagating an anti-Islamic message to the world, the sheer...
World Cinema
TessTess is a 1979 romance film directed by Roman Polanski, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy′s 1891 novel Tess of the d′Urbervilles. During the Victorian period, it tells the story of a strong-willed, young peasant girl (played by Nastas...
A Window on Asian Cinema
TharloTharlo is a shepherd in a remote Tibetan village, his long ponytail so well known among the villagers that they have given him the nickname “braided hair.” Needing an identification card, Tharlo heads to the village center to get ...
World Cinema
The 33Mario, who lives a happy life with his family, works at a mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert, excavating for copper and gold. On a day shift around lunchtime, he and his 32 fellow miners feel something strange while they are working 7...
World Cinema
The ApostateGonzalo Tamayo decides to give up Catholicism by nullifying his christening. Having an intimate relationship with his cousin Pilar since he was little and failing at school, he continues this abnormal life, rigidly maintaining his...
Gala Presentation
The AssassinHou Hsiao-Hsien has talked about making a martial-arts film for at least a decade, but we all knew that he wouldn’t come up with anything in the King Hu or Lau Kar-Leung traditions. That doesn’t prevent his new film ? eight years ...
Wide Angle
The AuditionLeonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro are asked by Martin Scorsese to come to Macau for an audition for his new film. What these two actors don’t know is that they have to compete each other for the role.
Flash Forward
The Automatic HateWhen an alluring young woman named Alexis Green appears on Davis Green’s doorstep one night claiming to be his long-lost first cousin, Davis is at first skeptical that she’s telling the truth. But after secretly doing some investi...
Korean Cinema Today
The Battle of GwangjuOn May 18, 1980. The Gwangju Democratization Movement began. In its first days, a crackdown on student demonstrators by paratroopers results in the loss of numerous lives. Incited by the violence, residents of the city of Gwangju ...