New Currents

• Japan
• 2011
• 84min

Violence is deadly to both offender and victim, but the offender does not realize this truth. [Damn Life] is a low budget independent movie that tells us how deeply seated trauma from violenceis. When Kotani was little, he lost h...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2011
• 15min

After a long day working construction, a man’s journey home seems daunting. Finally at home he washes off the dust of the road and dresses in a colorful, fancy costume. He begins to dance in honor of Ganesha, God of wisdom and for...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 101min

2011 ACF Post-production Fund An ′anti-music′ film, [Dangerously Excited] centers on a seventh grade civil servant and a difficult rock band who come together through an unfortunate twist of fate and then develop a special relati...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2011
• 70min

Vast lands with nothing except for mountains, trees and grass, and wind and water? this is where an elderly father lives with his two aging daughters. In their monotonous daily lives, the only sources of amusement are anold TV wi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2011
• 90min

Because of labor unrest, three ordinary workers in Iran’s alpine region face hardships in providing for their families and end up trying to sell stolen high-voltage power lines. Worse, during the burglary they accidentally kill s...

World Cinema

• France
• 2011
• 100min

Romeo and Juliette fall in love at first sight at a party. Their romance leads to marriage and a short-lived happiness. When they find their baby has a brain tumor, they declare war. The journey afterwards is their ceaseless effor...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2011
• 10min

A salaryman relieves his routine and stress by assembling Do It Yourself furniture. He blissfully imagines flattening his boss’ head with a planer and hammering the heads of others. He teaches a woman he meets by chance about DIY ...

World Cinema

• Mexico
• 2011
• 93min

Lautaro lives in a small farming village in Guerrero, Mexico, where a feudal society, complete with peasants and a lord, still exists. When his parents die, he leaves his younger siblings behind and goes to live with his aunt, but...

Special Programs in Focus

• Portugal
• 2011
• 261min

This masterpiece tells the tragic love story between Simao and Teresa, two lovers of noble families set in 18th century Portugal. It is considered a landmark piece in the history of European art cinema and is the third film in the...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 96min

This, Yonfan’s homage to Alfred Hitchcock, blends elements from 1950s classics such as Rear [Window and To Catch a Thief] with general themes from Vertigo. The director also borrows mises-en-scene from Michelangelo Antonioni’s [Bl...