A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2011
• 109min

Highly independent with a strong, unique character is the ideal of womanhood that Yuya Ishii prefers to portray. In [Mitsuko Delivers], Mitsuko, possessed of a truly singular personality, embodies this image of the ideal woman. Pr...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2011
• 18min

While attending a meeting, Hyunsu gets a phone call from his family with some unexpected news. Upon arriving home, he tries to sort out his wife, son’s, and son’s friend’s dilemma, generating more mishaps. The space for the highly...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2011
• 18min

No longer able to stand the loneliness after five years living alone?, goose daddy’Hyeongcheol buys a family from a Substitute Family agency. As his connection to the substitutes strengthens, he begins to confuse his real family a...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2011
• 95min

2008 AND PUFS Fund An intensely human documentary film that follows the lives of foreign women over 10years. Foreign women workers in a Taiwan hospice for the elderly are there to provide for their families. They comfort themselv...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 80min

The very first Korean monster, Yonggari is born from a nuclear explosion test carried out by a foreign country. As his destruction commences in the midst of Seoul, the city declares martial law and some people flee while others ge...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan
• 2011
• 82min

A tragic but lyrical social drama by Kyrgyzstan’s preeminent filmmaker, Aktan ArymKubat, sees Iranian master director Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s scenario transplanted to Kazakhstan. Polina is a single mother with two sons, Amir and Serik...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2011
• 84min

[Mourning] is a road movie about the events that swirl around a deaf and mute couple, Kamran and Sharareh, which takes their sister’s son home. After a terrible quarrel with her husband at their sister’s house, Nahid and Masoud de...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2011
• 88min

China is a country where modernization and pre-modernization co-exist. The news media constantly boasts of the country’s strong defense power and economic prowess, evidenced by its huge foreign exchange reserve, while the peripher...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2011
• 141min

2008 APM (aka. PPP) Project Director Yamashita Nobuhiro’s ninth feature film, [My Back Page], is about Japan’s radical student movement during of the late ’60s and early ’70s. The story begins when fledgling journalist Sawada g...

Flash Forward

• Russia
• 2011
• 88min

This film tells a story of Boris Fishkin, a dancing student at Bolshoi Dance Academy in Moscow. He sincerely believes that his father is Mikhail Baryshnikov, the legendary Russian dancer. Fishkin never knew his real father and he ...