World Cinema

• United States
• 2011
• 91min

The film begins with two people obsessed with death meeting one another: Terminally ill Annabel (Mia Wasikowska) meets a Enoch (Henry Hopper), who enjoys attending funerals. Enoch offers her a chance to experience life and death a...

New Currents

• Myanmar,Taiwan
• 2011
• 84min

[Return to Burma] captures the realities of Myanmar, a country that has been closed to outsiders for a great deal of time. It is a project made possible only by Chinese-Burmese director Midi Z, though he currently resides in Taiwa...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 115min

2011 ACF Post-production Fund This is, in a way, a comprehensive anti-narrative film. The storylines are monumentally complex. Although the director was assistant director to Hong Sang-soo on [Tale of Cinema] and [Hahaha], his wo...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2011
• 94min

Following the end of World War II, Polish people in Prussia find themselves subjected to a series of changes of power. The horrors that Poland had to experience during the war as a small nation are symbolically demonstrated throug...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 95min

The title itself bespeaks for this movie. This is a human drama for the family, and a postideological drama that took 7 years to complete. Various episodes about boys and girls living in Bochunbori, a small village in Ryang Gang D...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2011
• 103min

Philippine’s action star Fernando Poe Jr. directs and acts in this traditional Western film. As Philippine is known for its flexibility accepting occidental culture, the film accommodates Western elements in the film without much ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2011
• 103min

The word, Samurai, has a strange appeal to Western audiences: even Tom Cruise played a Samurai. Now, genius Japanese director and comedian Matsumoto Hitoshi has made a Samurai comedy. In the film, the Samurai can’t remember where ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2011
• 89min

2010 AND Dong-Eui Cinema Fund After an 8-year relationship, Jae-nyeon and Woo-young decide to get married. Though similar brain lesions define them, the pair must confront and resolve marital issues identical to any other couple....

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2011
• 24min

First-year high schooler Hyojeong leads an ordinary life. On her way home one day, she runs into Eunmi, a former middle school classmate, and their deviation thereafterdisconcerts Hyojeong. The story that unfolds without any cause...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2011
• 276min

The production and release of [Seediq Bale] may prove to be a significant turning point for the Taiwanese film industry. With a budget of 600 million yuan,the film has the highest budget in the history of Taiwanese film. [Seediq ...