World Cinema

• Mexico
• 2012
• 102min

Roberto who lost his wife in an accident and Alejandra, his teenage daughter, start a new life in Mexico City. Roberto finds a job as a chef and Alejandra seems to adjust to her school life well. However, her video taken with a ma...

Special Programs in Focus

• Afghanistan
• 2012
• 77min

Akhtar is a tramp in a city. Although he is penniless, he enjoys freedom, wandering around the city. One day, he meets a rich man and his life begins to change. The sincere friendship between the two men gradually strangles Akhtar...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2012
• 88min

A child is dead. Having snuck onto a neighbor’s truck, the child does not survive an accident the truck is subsequently involved in. But the neighbor does. The third film from China’s Emily Tang, is about a family who loses their...

Flash Forward

• Estonia
• 2012
• 87min

This is the first feature film by a famous Estonian music video director, Heleri Saarik. Her music videos and this film share the same world view. What is different between the two is that the film reveals the hidden side of music...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2012
• 108min

This RMB 70 million (US$ 11million), state-approved blockbuster, starring Korean actress Park Ye-Jin and Japanese actor Nakaizumi Hideo, unfolds during Genghis Khan’s final conquest in the early 13th century. After bringing most o...

Flash Forward

• Germany,Switzerland
• 2012
• 117min

The City of Munich rents out an old building called Annelie as a welfare facility. This facility shelters the socially excluded, including the homeless and drug addicts. One day, the city decides to demolish the building and every...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2012
• 112min

Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. Biological communion ?for a price. Syd also supplies illegal samples of these viruses to piracy groups, s...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 95min

In 2009, a group of young people quit their jobs and founded an alternative fashion company, Orgdot, in the hopes of creating an ethical fashion brand. In contrast to the bloodsucking practices found in the current fashion industr...

New Currents

• Philippines
• 2012
• 87min

This film about religion, courage and guilt unfolds in 1971 when Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos’ power was at its peak. New recruit Sister Lourdes and Sister Ruth forge a close friendship cloistered in their mountain monast...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia
• 2012
• 20min

Documentary short film by Sergei Paradjanov, representing the director′s personal view on the Heritage of the Georgian autodidact primitivism painter of the 19th century, one of the best masters of the world of “Naive Art” - Niko ...