A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2010
• 112min

Do the elderly still feel passion? Liu Hao addresses the lives of the elderly in a somewhat different way from other films. This is a story about older people who make their own decisions about their lives and enjoy the world in t...

Flash Forward

• Italy
• 2010
• 95min

The camera covers laborers leaving a factory. Twenty-year-old Eva fails to renew her contract and leaves Bucharest for Italy. She is put up by Anna, who works at the FIAT factory, and takes care of her grandmother. Meanwhile, Eva ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2010
• 128min

In 1976, a great earthquake tore apart Tangshan, China. The event also broke a family into pieces when, trying to save his children, a father lost his life. Required to choose which to save between her daughter and son, both burie...

Gala Presentation

• Hong Kong,China
• 2010
• 106min

Ann Hui’s characteristic interests stand out when she pushes a theme with her melodramatic sensibility and social realistic view, and All about Love is a film that reveals that talent well. As a film about homosexuality and the p...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2010
• 52min

A documentary on Kurdish mothers who have lost their own flesh and blood. In this small Kurdistan village, men or children are hardly seen, for the fathers, husbands or grownup sons were mostly taken to battlefields or slaughtered...

Midnight Passion

• Canada
• 2010
• 90min

Having lost her pilot mother to a tragic plane accident, rookie aviator Addie’s father has forbidden her to fly. Nevertheless, determined to follow in her mother’s footsteps she defiantly makes her debut flight taking her friends ...

Wide Angle

• Iran,Korea,Canada
• 2010
• 120min

[Amin] portrays determination of a musician trying to preserve traditional music. For his doctorate dissertation for the Kiev Conservatory, Amin does research on the endangered music of the Qashqai region in Iran. As he participa...

Special Programs in Focus

• Czech Republic
• 2010
• 114min

The title is a quotation from the Czech national anthem, ironic in view of the setting ? in one of the most tragic times in Czechoslovakian history. The script was inspired by the personal experiences of its author Tereza Bouckova...

World Cinema

• Israel
• 2010
• 114min

This film is a complex illustration of the beloved motherland from an Israeli veteran actor-turned-director. It follows various characters whose lives are intertwined in shocking chaos with such poignancy rarely seen from a first-...

Wide Angle

• United States,Korea
• 2010
• 57min

This documentary film is about a Chinese girl’s transformation from a laundryman’s daughter to international celebrity, activist and artist in the face of racism and sexism. Anna May Wong (1905-1961) was a Chinese-American film an...