Korean Cinema Today
Black DoveThis is a tragic drama about a man whose family was destroyed because of a car accident and the married couple who caused the accident. The parallel narratives of the two families alternate and gradually merge in a bittersweet con...
World Cinema
Blood of My Blood[Blood of my Blood] is the story of a family that lives in the slums of Lisbon. The daily lives of a son(or nephew) that works for a drug cartel, a daughter who is in love with a married man, a mother who is having an affair with ...
World Cinema
Blue BirdBafiokadie and Tene, a brother and sister, begin a journey to find a blue bird that has suddenly disappeared in the garden. The siblings encounter their deceased grandparents, engage in a battle with spiritual beings of the forest...
World Cinema
BreathingRoman Kogler, 19, convicted of manslaughter, tries to build a new life for himself working at a municipal funerary institution. Most of the film shows him carrying corpses and cleaning coffins. Then one day Roman sees an old woman...
Wide Angle
Bugging Heaven; Listen to HerJu Eun-ae sells tickets at the National Museum of Modern Art. However, she is also a part-time agent of Bugging Heaven, an unofficial national prediction institution operating in the museum’s basement. The story rushes towards an ...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Buy My FistKim’s famous boxing film stars Kim Gi-su, who was a famous champion at the time. Long takes of boxing scenes are vivid and real as two sets of fists cut across the screen. However these realistic action scenes take up only a small...
Wide Angle
CamelsA man leaves a woman in search of the unknown. Enduring the latest of several failed relationships, the woman is exhausted?body and soul. She feels as if she is crossing an arid plain. This ambitious animated film communicates the...
Wide Angle
Carte BlancheJune 2008 in the Central African Republic. The film starts with the picture of an African boy playing an instrument in the middle of a heavy downpour. The camera then slowly turns to capture the forensic scientists and specialists...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Celestial KingdomIn China, there is a practiced superstition that if a man dies unmarried, he has to be buried with a woman who died around that time, otherwise the rest of his family will be unhappy. The ritual is known as a soul wedding. In a v...
World Cinema
Chicken with PlumsA famous violinist Nasser Ali cannot find a good enough violin to replace the cherished instrument that he has lost. When he finds a perfect violin and plays it, he is so moved, that he decides to die. While he contemplates the me...