World Cinema

• Netherlands
• 2012
• 84min

After making an impressive debut with by winning Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes Films Festival, Fow Pyng Hu came back with four years later, and finally, with his third movie,, another four years later. Named after the main ch...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 22min

Do-han makes money ripping off Chinese tourists visiting Dongdaemun night market. One evening, a Korean-Chinese man, Gwang-ho, asks the wandering Do-han about where he might take a woman. Hand-held camera work, close-ups and rhyth...

World Cinema

• Turkey
• 2012
• 92min

An older man recently released from jail after serving his sentence takes a fourteen-year old girl whose face is hidden under a veil as his bride. Their family has arranged this marriage to ward off further bloodbath and settle th...

Special Programs in Focus

• Poland
• 2012
• 93min

The premise is Hitchcockian ? a train full of strangers forced to spend the night in a confined space, with a suggestion that among the passengers there might be a killer. It is fascinating to watch how Kawalerowicz mixes the elem...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SriLanka,United States
• 2012
• 73min

This film is based on the life of photographer and journalist Kumara. Kumara takes asylumin the United States after his life is threatened because of his anti- government writings. In the foreign land that is the U.S., he leads an...

World Cinema

• France,Pakistan
• 2012
• 77min

Noor wants to become a man again. Once a pious member of Khusra, a Pakistani transgender community, he doesn’t belong to the group anymore. He decides to find a woman who loves him as who he is, working at the truck decoration cen...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan,United States
• 2012
• 102min

is the latest in a long line of 3.11 films, but it may be among the first to deal with the psychological impact of the disaster on average Japanese on a day-to-day basis. In a small Tokyo apartment block, neighbors Saeko and Yukak...

Special Programs in Focus

• Afghanistan
• 2012
• 127min

This film is an omnibus film composed of "Friday Night", "The Bridegroom" and "Smugglers" with a backdrop of Kabul. It is the first fiction film to be produced by Afghan Film. Three of the central figures from Afghan’s cultural mi...

Wide Angle

• Thailand
• 2012
• 15min

A woman’s long day of taking care of her Asperger’s-afflicted son while trying to earn a living is complicated when she loses her job. A child who is indifferent to her suffering and the hardships of her life lead her to a frighte...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2012
• 100min

Korean-Japanese director Yang Yonghi is a familiar name to us due to her previous films, and , documentaries that told her father’s story after he moved her three brothers to North Korea, and the story of a niece/nephew whowas bo...