Wide Angle

• India
• 2012
• 14min

An actor deals with the disappointment of a failed audition and must cope with the envy he feels of the friend who got the part. The Artist is a heartfelt letter to young artists worldwide who struggle with frustration in pursuit ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Mexico
• 2012
• 170min

Based on the novel of Naguib Mahfouz, the first Egyptian Novel Prize winner for Literature, the film depicts a middle-class family struggling against poverty after their father's death. The desperate mother chooses to sacrifice th...

Special Programs in Focus

• Mexico
• 2012
• 110min

Based on a gruesome true story which occurred at Mexico City in the 1950′s, the film unfolds the theme of restraint, utilizing various tools; the husband obsessing his wife′s past, sexual tension between the brother and sister, th...

Wide Angle

• Japan,China
• 2012
• 91min

Based on a bestselling children’s book, has a title that says all that needs to be said about the story. The cat’s deaths following great wealth, fame and all possible adventures are lamented each time, but the cat is never truly...

Special Programs in Focus

• Armenia
• 2012
• 79min

Blood-red pomegranates dripping on a white cloth, we hear a poignant monologue: “Life and soul are tortures to me.” Elaborate yet stationary images of suppressive religion and theatrical beauty of structure reveal cinematic aesthe...

World Cinema

• Italy,Switzerland
• 2012
• 108min

opens with the inner monologue of a statue of the great general Garibaldi as he observes the comings and goings of the people beneath him, particularly Leo, a widowed plumber father who falls in love with a struggling artist, his ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 122min

“Palace, a place of insanity, and the lust and mad politics in it." This phrase clearly indicates the film′s personality. Confusing mixture of lust and politics is the real theme of this historical drama. It implies the lesson fro...

Wide Angle

• Bangladesh,Korea,South
• 2012
• 15min

An immigrant worker decorates his home?a container?with the found trash of other people’s lives. The man prides himself on the upkeep of his modest home. After he’s evicted from his illegal abode he secretly returns, but it’s no l...

Flash Forward

• Colombia,Argentina
• 2012
• 101min

After the mysterious death of Marcela, her mother and four brothers leave for a remote rural village for healing. Nevertheless, rural life is far from peaceful. The appearance of Angelica, the mother's sister, subtly influences th...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2012
• 90min

Growing old alone in a village hundreds of miles away from his hometown, Kao might die while doing what he has done in life: cremating people. At a crematorium that receives unclaimed bodies, Kao’s job is to cremate the dead and h...