Wide Angle

• Japan,France
• 2012
• 45min

is a collection of memories and a goodbye by director Kawase Naomi for her late grandmother, the woman that raised her after she was separated from her parents at an early age. The grandmother that had been by her side since child...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 36min

Dandong, China shares a border at the Amrok River with the neighboring city of Shinuiju, in North Korea. Illegal immigrant Choongshim works at a massage parlor, but she’s chased away by Chinese police, taking refuge with a Korean ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2012
• 120min

explores the consequences of 3.11. After the disaster, Shiori and Kenji, a couple working at a small factory recovering from the tragedy, are looking forward to having a baby. But Kenji dies in an accident caused by his colleague ...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Hong Kong,China
• 2012
• 102min

Here is a mole in the police waging a war on crime, tipping off a criminal gang. Then, why the mole communicates secretly with the gang? What is their purpose? talks about a story different from other typical crime films in the c...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2012
• 91min

Sam, twenty, bright, ambitious and attractive, has dreams of running a restaurant with his best friend Elliot. He has the people skills, the business plan, the best young chef around and a chronic fear of rejection. Mary is a beau...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2012
• 90min

The story of Sandra, an overworked manager at a fast food restaurant, who receives a call from a police officer accusing one of her employees, a teenage girl named Becky, of stealing from a customer. Taking the officer at his word...

Special Programs in Focus

• Belgium,UK,Korea,North
• 2012
• 81min

Kim Young-mi is a miner dreaming of becoming an acrobat with the Pyeongyang Circus Troupe. Jang Pil, a handsome and proud aerialist is looking for a new partner after his current partner announces her retirement. When he meets You...

Wide Angle

• Australia
• 2012
• 15min

Eccentric short film, “Convenience” is set at a remote gas station and tells the enigmatic tale of a very inconvenient event. Iconic Australian indie actor, David Field plays a shopkeeper who does his baffled best, to cope with a ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Poland
• 2012
• 63min

A wonderful example of a film about children that avoids traditional pitfalls of the genre, e.g. oversimplifying the characters or having them deliver messages in discrepancy with their age. Kedzierzawska masterfully directs child...

Special Programs in Focus

• UK
• 2012
• 113min

Polanski’s third feature is a subversive send-up of a gangster story, heavily influenced by surrealists and the theatre of absurd (the film’s initial title was Waiting for Katelbach, clearly referencing Beckett). It is an early va...