Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2011
• 87min

Set in American continent during the colonial between France and the Great Britain, the story follows the Great Snake warrior who pleads tribes to unite and keep the peace. The Great Snake is a problem to the Europeans who try to ...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2011
• 110min

[Choked] is a gruesome portrait of family disintegration. Surprisingly the mother is the main cause for the family breakup. She becomes embroiled in a pyramid scheme, and as a result, has to run away to hide from the failed financ...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Japan
• 2011
• 119min

Based on renowned Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue’s autobiographical novel, this moving film is directed by Harada Masato, an acclaimed director with a style peculiar to himself and a diverse career ranging from actor to director t...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2011
• 25min

The latest work by Morita Shuhei was initially designed as an animation for home video. In the year 2710, Nara is hosting a grand festival. A field trip for a boy turns into an adventure when he meets a mysterious girl. Images of ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 106min

A visually stunning reflection on lustful desire, Yonfan’s [Colour Blossoms] tells the story of Meili, a realtor, who visits a mansion after being asked to handle its sale. There, she meets the mysterious Madame Umeki, and finds h...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 105min

This sensitive drama was highly anticipated because of the so-called ‘Hyun Bin Effect’. The director’s minimalist style allows loose exterior plot focusing on nuances and details within the story. The couple is about to divorce af...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2011
• 95min

Roger Corman is the most prolific B-movie director and producer in Hollywood and the godfather of American independent cinema. This documentary keenly catalogs his life and career. He made his first feature in the 1950s, America’s...

Flash Forward

• Poland
• 2011
• 88min

Fred and Jurek are brothers. Their father always advises them to cooperate but the brothers who run a business together are always in discord like Cain and Abel, each insisting on his own position. On a train ride, the brothers wi...

Wide Angle

• Romania,Poland
• 2011
• 73min

The true story of Romanian laborer Claudio Crulic who died in a Polish prison after refusing to eat comes to the big screen as an animation. The first person narrative by the main character starts off by telling us of his death at...

Gala Presentation

• Japan,France,United States,Turkey,Korea,South
• 2011
• 133min

2011 ACF Post-production Fund [Cut] is a border-jumping ode to the movies created by Iranian director Amir Naderi, who is currently working in the Unites States, with a Japanese crew and actors. Shuji is a poor, independent movie...