A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia
• 2012
• 82min

The family of a widowed mother comprises her and her three grown children. The widow is secretly seeing another man. The older daughter, who is married with two children, dreams of another life. The younger daughter, the only one ...

World Cinema

• Armenia
• 2012
• 98min

A beautiful girl named Sasha from Russia comes to Armenia. Born between Russian father and Armenian mother, Sasha is searching for the grave of her father who died in the Karabakh War. Karabakh, which was the territory of the Azer...

World Cinema

• Poland,France,Portugal
• 2012
• 105min

Ian, an instructor, arrives at a Lisbon school for the visually impaired. His job is teaching the students how to see sounds. He trains them how to pour water and how to manage fear of surroundings. This is a drama of visually imp...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 89min

The latest Hong Sang-soo film is characterized by the unique motif of repetition and variation. In the film, a student majoring in cinema moves to Mohang, a small beach town, following her mother, who fled from creditors. The girl...

Special Programs in Focus

• Poland,Germany,Canada
• 2012
• 143min

Agnieszka Holland works hard to avoid the cliches in a story that could be regarded as iconic. First of all, she refuses clear division of characters based on moral grounds (good or evil). Instead she presents main characters as h...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2012
• 75min

After taming a former wasteland through hard work and sweat and creating a community, the settlers living there are given a place of worship?a place for honoring the gods. Now that the clergy owns the land, the settlers are reduce...

World Cinema

• Germany,Russia,Latvia,Netherlands,Belarus
• 2012
• 128min

The story is based in an incident in Belarus during the WWII when the tension between Germany and Russian peaked. A railroad worker Sushenya is kidnapped by a guerilla. A train derailed and the guerilla cited Susenya cooperating w...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2012
• 101min

In 2010, 31,560 people ended their own lives and about 20,000 people died or went missing with the earthquake. Unemployed widower Fujio Murai’s family tragedy contains instances of both. diagnosed with lung cancer, Fujio refuses s...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 108min

A local film worthy of notice, the monochrome is the fourth film by Jeju director O Muel. It is based on the true story of the townsfolk that took sanctuary in a cave during an uprising on the island in April 1948. The Jeju 4.3 U...

World Cinema

• Hungary
• 2012
• 87min

News spreads in a split second that a gypsy family was murdered. Murderers ran fugitive and there is noone who claims to have witness the incident. For the other gypsy family living in the neighborhood, the incident only makes it ...