New Currents

• Indonesia
• 2011
• 100min

The sea and a mirror are what sustain the life of 12 year old Kapis, who lives on the small Indonesian island of Kampung Bajo. The mirror is a gift left by her father who was lost at sea, and the sea is where she and her mother ma...

Wide Angle

• Venezuela
• 2011
• 92min

In [The Mystery of the Lagoons], Andean Fragments director Atahualpa Lichy travels through outhern villages along the Andes recalling similar childhood experiences with his butterflyhunting father. These lost villages were isolate...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 114min

During a brief respite in the Korean War, a North Korean officer Jang Il-goo defects to South Korea in order to find his lover. But she has already married a South Korean lieutenant. This is a war melodrama about the tragic relati...

Flash Forward

• Canada
• 2011
• 94min

As the title, [The Odds], suggests, this film is about gambling. At night, high school students who make bets at the basketball court, gather together in one house. A small gambling game is held every night at this house. Gambler ...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2011
• 106min

This low budget period drama is a rare beast indeed, costing a mere 70 million Won. For those with no time for expensive blockbusters, this film will be a welcome anomaly. Stanley PARK produced, wrote and directed the film as well...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 120min

Star actress Ku Hye-sun shows what a talented director she is with this, her second feature. Some expectation towards the director has led this film to be included in the Vision section instead of Panorama at last, despite the pre...

World Cinema

• Spain
• 2011
• 92min

One evening, an unidentified man arrives in the small island village of Mallorca, Spain. Hoping that not one will notice him, he settls down in an abandoned store. But word soon spreads that a stranger has purchased and plans to r...

Midnight Passion

• Indonesia
• 2011
• 100min

A swat team arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord named Tama. The building has never been raided before, never been touched by police. Seen as a no go zone it has since beco...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2011
• 79min

The rambler comes back to the wilderness. The wandering guitarist enters the town with a boy in search of his mother. His mother is a villain’s lover and refuses to see her son. The Guitarist finds out that the town’s development ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2011
• 77min

This film is one of the famous ‘Rambler Series’ in Japanese Western films. A man comes from a wasteland and walks into the backstreets of a city carrying a guitar on his back. He gets into a fight in a bar and before he realizes, ...