Open Cinema

• Italy,Luxembourg,Belgium,France
• 2012
• 80min

Geppetto, a lonely woodcarver, brings to life ? literally ? a wooden puppet he names Pinocchio. This mischievous boy skips classes and instead undertakes a variety of exciting adventures. Whenever he faces a challenge, a blue-hair...

Wide Angle

• Serbia
• 2012
• 15min

There’s a man in a superb house with a pool. His lover spends time swimming in a bikini. The man, rather than turning his eyes on her, is watching war news and forming an idea of a story about an Iraqi boy who fell a victim to the...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 117min

is a story about elite high school seniors, the top 1%, who are prepared to go to extremes to get into prestigious universities. A student who has ranked number one at an esteemed school dies in a remote mountain. Finding out why ...

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 2012
• 98min

Camburnu, a town near the Turkish Black Sea, sits at the center of a hot environmental debate. Many people in power, including the mayor make, frequent visits to examine the situation but are reluctant to take any real responsibil...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,Myanmar
• 2012
• 105min

depicts the lives of illegal immigrant workers from Myanmar living in Thailand. A Hong and his sister secretly cross the Thai border as part of a group, one of scores of illegal crossings organized by smuggling rings. Most of the ...

World Cinema

• Mexico,France,Netherlands,Germany
• 2012
• 120min

Juan and his family leave the big city and settle in an area outside of Mexico. There, they experience the two remote worlds of pleasure and pain. Whether these two worlds are complementary or mutually exclusive remains a question...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2012
• 95min

Emerging Indonesian filmmaker Edwin’s version of the return of the prodigal son is centered Lana, abandoned in a zoo as a three-year-old. Oom, a giraffe keeper, raised her to live and work at the zoo and it is now all she knows of...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 120min

In the last years of the YI Dynasty, when the Andong-based KIM families wielded enormous political power, YI Ha-eung disguises himself as a louche and an idiot in order to avoid the KIMs’ surveillance while secretly preparing hims...

Special Programs in Focus

• Poland
• 2012
• 179min

Wajda’s film is first and foremost a multilayered, Dickensian portrait of Poland at a specific time and place. The city of Lodz at the end of the 19th century was a European centre of (the) textile industry, controlled largely by ...

World Cinema

• Finland,Estonia
• 2012
• 125min

Allide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she finds a young woman in her yard ? Zara has just escape...