World Cinema

• Francisca FUENZALIDA
• Chile
• 2011
• 85min

A 17 year old girl Natalia, the daughter of an upper-class family goes out with Rodrigo, the son of a working-class family. Unaware that she is pregnant until late-term, Natalia decides to obtain medication that will induce an abo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Adolfo ALIX JR.
• Philippines
• 2011
• 85min

A strange story about a middle-aged woman who gives birth to a fish. A poor, middle-aged couple, Lina and Miguel, move into a village next to a dumpsite. When Miguel loses his job due to an illness, Lina starts to work in the dump...

World Cinema

• Aleksander SOKUROV
• Russia
• 2011
• 134min

[Faust] is the final instalment of a cinematic tetralogy on the nature of power. The main characters in the first three films are real historical figures: Adolf Hitler(Molokh, 1999), Vladimir Lenin (Telec, 2000) and Emperor Hirohi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Niki KARIMI
• Iran
• 2011
• 90min

[Final Whistle] condemns the gap between law and justice. Sahar, a documentary filmmaker currently working on a television film, is looking for Maliheh, necessary for some re-shoots. Sahar finds Maliheh with the help of Moradi, wh...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• KIM Kee-duk
• Korea
• 2011
• 118min

Five marines volunteer for a special mission ? destroy a North Korean ammunition storehouse. This film tells their personal stories. Newly appointed platoon commander Oh Suk-man who is on bad terms with his father, the battalion c...

Wide Angle

• ANDO Hiroaki
• Japan
• 2011
• 25min

A group of prisoners sentenced to life wake up in an unknown place. It doesn’t take long for them to realize that they are adrift in space with only one evacuation shuttle on board. Under the premise of gambling with their lives f...

Wide Angle

• SON Tae-gyum 
• Korea
• 2011
• 21min

A boy sells himself to a man, secretly meeting him the next day for payment?a meeting the boy wants to keep hidden from his brother. The boy’s uneasiness and cynicism penetrates this simple story, triggering delicate yet acute ten...

World Cinema

• Joseph CEDAR
• Israel
• 2011
• 101min

[Footnote] is the story of a great rivalry between a father and son. They are both professors whose names are known for their study of the Talmud. The son places importance on achievement and fame, while the father holds his own i...

Special Programs in Focus

• Manoel de OLIVEIRA
• Portugal
• 2011
• 166min

An extreme love story that illustrates the madness of obsessive and selfish love, [Francisca] tells the story of Jose Augusto and Camilo who fight over Francisca during Portugal’s troubled history following Brazil’s independence. ...

Korean Cinema Today

• JEON Kyu-hwan
• Korea
• 2011
• 96min

This melodrama is the first of the would-be ‘radical’ melodramas by director Jeon Kyu-hwan famous for the ‘Town Trilogy’. It centers on a CEO of a publishing company and his wife. The husband is in a immoral relationship with a wr...