World Cinema

• Argentina,Spain
• 2011
• 85min

Ruben, who has worked as a truck driver for over 10 years, encounters a woman with a baby who begs him for a ride. Begrudgingly, the driver agrees, and the man, woman, and baby begin a 1,500 kilometer-long journey from the Paragua...

World Cinema

• Finland,France,Germany
• 2011
• 93min

“Le Havre” means “port” in Finnish. A ship where immigrant refugees sneaked in arrives at a port, and immigrant officials are busy tracking town illegal immigrants. Among these immigrant refugees is an African boy who is going to ...

Open Cinema

• Korea,South
• 2011
• 93min

2008 APM (aka. PPP) Project The monumental masterwork that paved the way for Korean animation that found both critical and popular success, [Leafie] is based on Hwang Sun-mi’s bestselling novel. The film remains faithful to the...

Special Programs in Focus

• China,Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 132min

Chow Yun-Fat stars as a villain who rules the world of conspiracy and treachery. Set in China during 1920s, a notorious badit chief Zhang enters a remote town posing as its new mayor in hopes of sudden fortune. However, the local ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2011
• 131min

Four directors have led the revival of the waning Japanese adult video industry, so-called “Pink Films,” since the end of the Nikkatsu Roman Porno era ended in the 1980s. One of these directors, Zeze Takahisa, has recently drawn a...

Gala Presentation

• Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 107min

What effect did Greece’s economic crisis have on a Hong Kong gangster? How did the lives of a loan shark, a bank teller, a policeman and a gangster become intertwined? Few directors could make a story like this come alive. Direct...

World Cinema

• Bolivia
• 2011
• 72min

An immense shootout that took place in a desert during the Bolivian military dictatorship in the 1970s forms the backround for this gritty black and white film. Tonio’s parents disappear following the melee, and he returns to his ...

New Currents

• China
• 2011
• 95min

[Lost in the Mountain] was inspired by Sky Clean Sand: Autumnal Thoughts, a poem by prominent yuanqu author Ma Zhiyuan, dating from the early Yuan era. Our lives are as unpredictable as the fog, and we are powerless before a crue...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2011
• 103min

Khoa leaves his life in the countryside and heads to Saigon with no without identification and with no solid plans. In the city he finds men earn a living in one of two ways: by collecting scrap metal or prostituting themselves to...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2011
• 76min

Having grown up in the countryside, innocent Cahaya heads to Jakarta in search of her father, whom she has not seen since she was 4 years old. But the father she meets there is no longer the warm and tender man she remembers?he is...