Closing Film

• Korea
• 2010
• 138min

Camellia is an omnibus by three directors from Thailand, Japan and Korea. Although filmed against the backdrop of Busan, the film unfurls its love stories by the individual directors in the past, present, and future tense. Wisit...

Gala Presentation

• Iran,France,Italy
• 2010
• 106min

This is Abbas Kiarostami’s first feature made abroad. Juliette Binoche and William Shimell, a British opera singer debuting as an actor, deliver outstanding performances. James Miller visits Tuscany on a book tour and meets ‘her’...

World Cinema

• France,Georgia
• 2010
• 122min

Once a naughty boy interested in photography, Nicolas becomes a filmmaker when he grows up. But after his film becomes an object of censorship due to its criticism about Georgian regime, he leaves for Paris looking for freedom wit...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2010
• 73min

A documentary style film about a woman and her daughter who live under a truck because they have no home. Unlike the stereotypical homeless bum, Norah is a tough woman who will do anything to make money to raise her daughter Sarah...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2010
• 80min

Cheburashka is a bear-like character created by Russian writer Eduard Uspensky in 1965, later made into a hugely popular animated series from 1969 that went on to gain popularity in Europe and Japan. He is now an nationally well-k...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2010
• 79min

This film, by a promising new media artist, PARK Kyung-keun, begins with a boy’s letter to his grandfather who ran a junkyard during the Japanese colonial period. In order to find the reason of the nightmare that has oppressed him...

Flash Forward

• Hungary
• 2010
• 89min

This drama revolves around a Hungarian and a Chinese man who meet on business. The Hungarian man is a real estate agent in charge of selling a suburban storage building where the Chinese man lives, where he works as a guard. With ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2010
• 85min

[Clerk] is the story of an urban guy that lives two lives-that of the day and that of the night. Biplab is a typist working for an ordinary company. But every night in his room, he falls into the fantasy world, talking to renowned...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2010
• 144min

Sono Shion announces his outrageous thriller as being based on a true story, but doubts will set in well before you’re wallowing in the first bloodbath. The factual case which inspired the ex-poet involved dog-breeders in Saitama ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2010
• 106min

A man makes a call from Rotterdam looking for his lover. The call is received at a cafe in Korea. The man is looking for a woman named ‘Anna’. He says he will quit his search for her. Later we see five couples. One couple is new i...