A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines,Netherlands,Japan,United States
• 2012
• 117min

Julian, a soldier, is stationed on a deserted island in the Philippine archipelago while in the capital city of Manila a coup d’etat ensues. The island is far removed from the chaos of civilization, still boasting a rather a primi...

New Currents

• Lebanon,Canada
• 2012
• 86min

Running a Lebanese restaurant called ‘Kayan,’ a divorcee Hanin always spends a busy hard day. She takes care of two daughters, barely pays the rent, and worries about money problems of her fiance. She even has to tolerate the comp...

World Cinema

• Germany,Switzerland,France
• 2012
• 91min

An escaped prisoner sneaks into a small German village. The man gets food with the help of a teenage girl in the village and sets up escape plan. The girl wants to go with him. The two starts journey to Marseille in South France. ...

Wide Angle

• France
• 2012
• 48min

A documentary film dealing with the artistic world of the wuxia film master King Hu, the artist who took wuxia cinema in Hong Kong to a new level. Differentiating himself from hiscontemporaries?Chang Cheh, Li Han Hsiang?and creati...

World Cinema

• Belgium
• 2012
• 85min

Currently in Kinshasa, many children are abandoned by their parents due to the belief that they are possessed by demons. Jose, one of these abandoned children, together with his friends wander around the streets until they one day...

Wide Angle

• Sweden,Rwanda
• 2012
• 15min

In the midst of frost and snow, a woman is driving her way to the hospital in Kiruna, the northernmost city of Sweden. Under the scorching sunlight of Kigali, Rwanda, another woman is being carried to the hospital on a stretcher. ...

World Cinema

• Colombia,Brazil,France
• 2012
• 90min

Thomas lives in the city of Bogota where racism runs rampant. He wanders the streets with his friends and works as an apprentice barber, working on massively intricate hair-dos painstakingly executed with clippers and razor-blades...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 16min

A middle-aged woman receives an unexpected visit from her son on the same night she plans on running away with her lover. Her decision hinges on which of these two men she’s more devoted to. Last Night is a portrait of a woman’s a...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2012
• 10min

During his night shift, an elderly taxi driver vanishes into the past in his own head between rides. It’s there he sees a woman, whose smile, gestures and language fill his memories and simultaneously comfort and sadden him. Like ...

World Cinema

• Canada,France
• 2012
• 169min

Laurence, a young French teacher and soon-to-be-published author, enjoys an intense and mutually loving relationship with his fiancee, Fred. But on the day after his 30th birthday, Laurence confesses to Fred that he longs to becom...