New Currents

• India
• 2012
• 117min

is a black comedy about understanding each other little by little under serious threats of terror through the medium of cinema. Sunny, struggling to make a living in the Bollywood industry, joins an American documentary filmmaking...

Flash Forward

• Czech Republic
• 2012
• 91min

Jarda’s family lives in a small border village. His job is to control railway signals. He spends his spare time making models in bottles. He is also a slot machine addict. His wife, Kamila, cleans train station’s public washrooms....

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2012
• 99min

A newcomer to the Chinese indie film scene, Li Rui Jun’s third film is based on Su Tong’s novel . Lao Ma and Lao Cao are old carpenters living in a rural village. All their lives they built coffins together for funerals. But when ...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 105min

There is a village in the center of the city. It’s not a place one rests in between commutes. It’s a place where one can greet everyone in the area while on a casual bike ride. It is Seongmisan village. It has been a dozen years s...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2012
• 108min

A re-discovery of the hidden talent in Thai independents. Low society people living along the railway in four parts of Thailand are fighting for their lives amid lots of problems. In the North, while Tu Pu, an old monk, tries his ...

Flash Forward

• Germany
• 2012
• 94min

A 15-year-old girl, Elise, plays piano that her father left behind. Her mother, Betty, comes home drunk every night, and Elise cannot get to sleep until she comes home. Oftentimes, Boys or girls in dysfunctional families naturally...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2012
• 104min

After 20 years of discord with his son, Lao Ge moves into a home for the elderly. His friend Lao Chou, afflicted with bladder cancer, and others are preparing for a concert in Tienjin, preparations that have their ups and downs. A...

Midnight Passion

• India
• 2012
• 320min

tells a story of vengence between two families that spans more than 60 years. It begins towards the end of colonial rule in India. Shahid Khan loots British trains, impersonating his rival, the legendary Sultana Daku. He becomes a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2012
• 105min

In the latest from Taiwanese filmmaker Yang Ya-che, Kaohsiung high schoolers Aron, Mabel and Liam are best friends and three sides of a love triangle. Spurned by Liam, Mabel has settled for Aron, but in Taipei during the reform mo...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2012
• 108min

Based on the comic by the Shirow Masamunes, this futuristic police thriller animation directed by Kamiyama Kenji is a philosophical and entertaining master piece. The new version is converted into 3D and has new opening scene with...