World Cinema

• United States
• 2012
• 92min

A girl named, Hushpuppy, lives with her father in a distant land in the southernmost edge of the world. Animals die in her community, turning the “southern land” into a ruin. Even her father becomes ill and Hushpuppy is faced with...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China,China
• 2012
• 90min

Chinese Internet TV site Youku produced this omnibus film incorporating the works of some of Asia’s best filmmakers: Kim Tae-yong, Tsai Ming-Liang, Gu Changwei and Ann Hui. The film begs the question, “What is beautiful?” and atte...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 85min

Another daring docu-drama from the director of . At the end of December 2011, the director has been offered to make a 10 minute PR short film for a new smart phone. He uses the opportunity to experiment a drastic idea to add a fic...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2012
• 96min

is a story of the despair among Beijing’s youth. San Bao is a poor young man who stops speaking after his girlfriend dumps him for a wealthy married man. He suffers suicidal tendencies brought on by the agony of rejection based on...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2012
• 92min

1976: Berberian Sound Studio is one of the cheapest, sleaziest post-production studios in Italy. Only the most sordid horror films have their sound processed and sharpened in this studio. Gilderoy, a naive and introverted sound en...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 68min

This film is about a story of our children seeking new hope and alternatives beyond school. A community center in Busan runs a cultural program for teenage dropouts where they can gather together, make friends and form a rock band...

World Cinema

• Romania,France
• 2012
• 150min

Inspired by the non-fiction novels of Tatiana Niculescu Bran. Cristian Mungiu, Palme d’Or winner for his film, (2009), returns with the story of two girls trapped in religion and tradition of Romania. An orphan girl living in Ge...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 91min

The film was originally a cinematization for the , a popular series of the radio soap opera where a tough and benefic female character was created. The film was starred by a shining actress Do Gum-bong who had covered a diversity ...

World Cinema

• Spain,France
• 2012
• 104min

Carmen loses her mother who was a flamenco dancer and she is raised by her father, who is a famous bullfighter, and a mean stepmother. She learns bullfight from her father and becomes a member of a traveling troupe. Against the ba...

Special Programs in Focus

• Poland
• 2012
• 112min

The philosophical implications of this film are as universal as they are obvious ? accidental events can radically influence your life. But it is Kieslowski’s honest approach to his central character that makes the film extraordin...