A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia,France
• 2012
• 112min

is a touching love story set in 1960s Indonesia during its political turmoil. Srintil and Rasus grow up together in a poor countryside village and ultimately develop a special affection for each other. However, their relationship ...

World Cinema

• France
• 2012
• 90min

Rachel is a nine-year-old girl who is tired of her parents' excessive love and meatballs. As she waits for a day when she can be free from her parents, she meets Valerie, an audacious friend. The adults used to live a monotonous l...

World Cinema

• Netherlands
• 2012
• 100min

What would happen if the global economy suddenly collapsed? Paula van der Oest′s is a faceted study of what happens when people lose their financial safety net, particularly in societies where identity and feelings of happiness a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Russia,Kyrgyzstan,France
• 2012
• 98min

Ascel lives in a remote little village in Kyrgyzstan, where the young woman cares for her drunkard father and siblings in the wake of their mother’s death. Ascel is clever and resourceful, and does her best to get by, but nonethel...

Wide Angle

• Switzerland,Canada
• 2012
• 114min

The new film by well-known documentarian and visual artist Peter Mettler illustrates the unpredictable nature of time with beautiful images of the . Mettler describes the human penchant for curiosity, starting with the American pi...

World Cinema

• Belgium
• 2012
• 94min

A mysterious disaster breaks out in a small Belgian village and spring stops coming. The order of nature is destroyed and the residents′ life becomes messy. Only Alice and Thomas, teenagers living in this forest village, strive to...

Midnight Passion

• Germany
• 2012
• 110min

Paul, a tabloid reporter, flees Berlin and begins working at a gossip magazine in Moscow, run by his mentor Alexei Onegin. He quickly succeeds in bringing back the glory and a higher circulation for the paper. His life is a big pa...

Gala Presentation

• Iran
• 2012
• 87min

Mohsen Makhmalbaf and his son Maysam paid a visit to Haifa, Israel where the governing authority of the Baha′i Faith was located. The Baha′i is a religion founded in Iran some 170 years ago, emphasizing peace between all humans. T...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2012
• 93min

Framed within a series of strange and shocking campfire tales, tells the story of Cullen Francis, a privileged young man whose life is upended by the sudden death of his mother. Months later on his twenty first birthday, his fath...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 91min

In 2008, a godwit with different color rings was seen at the estuary of Nakdong River in Busan. The tracking of his flight showed it was from New Zealand. He was named YRBY based on the colorful rings he wore. He has been flying f...