Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2011
• 11min

A girl’s efforts to keep her father from prison lead her to a horrendous life as a comfort woman. Although the legacy is vivid, comfort women no longer makes headlines with many of the victims deceased. The issue of comfort women ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2011
• 129min

[Himizu] is based on a manga of same name by popular Japanese animator Minoru Furuya, first published in 2001. The son of a violent father and a runaway mother, Sumida, wishes for an ordinary life. He feels alone despite being su...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 121min

An ex-mafia legend wishes to leave his organization to open a restaurant and lead an ordinary life. A woman approaches him at a cooking school in order to keep a watch on him as ordered by her client. If Won Bin and Kim Se-ron’s t...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 92min

This is a story about three new brides born in the year of the horse. They are all familiar with the saying,‘ women born in the year of the horse have a rough fate,’which has proven true in their lives. Afraid to give birth to dau...

World Cinema

• Luxembourg,Belgium,Austria
• 2011
• 93min

Ferdinand is a shy and withdrawn 40 year old man who loves music. He has worked for years taking care of the fish in the ‘Fish Land’ aquarium in the global leisure town ‘Worlds Apart’. Then one day, ‘Fish Land’ must close for six ...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2011
• 77min

[I Am] is the story of a successful Hollywood director, Tom Shadyac, who experienced a life threatening head injury, and his ensuing journey to try and answer two very basic questions ‘What’s wrong with our world?’and‘ What can we...

Wide Angle

• Nepal
• 2011
• 27min

A prostitute’s only source of happiness stems from sending letters to a radio DJ and listening to him read them on air. Devastated by her bleak circumstances, she stops writing one day, leaving him desperately waiting to hear from...

New Currents

• Thailand,Singapore
• 2011
• 115min

2008 ACF Script Development Fund / 2011 ACF Post-production Fund This is a road movie about two sisters who leave for their childhood home with their dead mother’s body. Pann is in shock and consumed by sadness after her mother c...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 110min

The family of Wang Bal-san, a businessman based in Busan, has never seen a peaceful day. While Wang Bal-san has earned the respect befitting a prominent man of character, he has never been understood by his sons. The film follows ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2011
• 128min

In a village where it rains ash from an active volcano in the Kyushu region, brothers Koichi and Ryu, living apart as a result of their parents’ divorce, spend everyday on the phone. Unlike the laid-back younger brother Ryu living...