World Cinema

• Sweden
• 2012
• 104min

Ra?, a twentysomething muslim immigrant working at a salad packing plant, is laid off one day and enforced to face the real world. She is an expert in cutting vegetables, but without a high school diploma nor a driver’s license, t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2012
• 101min

Every night in Eden, a gay nightclub in Shinjuku, a group of drag queens put on performances. At the core of this group is Miro, the club’s madame and choreographer. He leads his rag tag group of five drag queens and puts on a fab...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2012
• 98min

Based on the true-life story of Korean-American Chong Kim, a victim of human trafficking in her teenage years, puts a spotlight on the chilling problem of human sex trafficking in America. The film begins in a New Mexico bar wher...

Gala Presentation

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 101min

Director Jeon Soo-il’s is a human drama concerned to temptation and introspection. A Catholic priest gets involved the death of a low-teenaged girl whom he has cherished like a family member of his own and thus leads himself into...

Wide Angle

• Spain
• 2012
• 76min

is a documentary chronicling the ordeal of those that travel between Cuba and Africa’s Western Sahara?the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. After years of living under Spanish rule, Western Sahara came under the influence of Moroc...

Wide Angle

• Lebanon,Qatar,Armenia
• 2012
• 77min

The director shares the same name as her grandmother. After the elder Tamara’s death, the younger Tamara begins to recollect her grandmother’s life. Her grandmother’s favorite perfume, her laughter, her friends next door, a half r...

Wide Angle

• France,Belgium,Luxembourg
• 2012
• 80min

Celestine is a mouse living in a dormitory and dreaming of becoming a painter. One day, Celestine steps out from the underground world of mice and meets a street musician called Ernest, living in the world of bears on the ground. ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 129min

This movie shows a huge development in Korean melodramas. The three main characters are an elderly man who is a great poet, a young writer who is the poet’s student with no special talent but envies the old man’s great talent, and...

New Currents

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 103min

could be the ultra-low budget (3 million won) version of Lee Chang-dong’s magnificent Poetry, because it deals with the similar theme. Though an adult coming-of-age story, this tale of atonement, where a 28-year-old man is wracked...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia
• 2012
• 88min

Director Rezo Chkheidze, decided to restore the film in colors because it was originally projected a color film but could not afford to cover the expenses. was restored under the supervision of Director Chkheidze himself and thus...