Flash Forward

• Spain
• 2010
• 85min

Mijail, Feodor and their cow Mushka are swept away by a flood and wash up in a coastal village. They survive by picking up debris carried in by the sea, and one day find the body of a German soldier. The German government is on th...

Special Programs in Focus

• Spain
• 2010
• 107min

Ana’s parents die leaving Ana and her two sisters to be raised by their aunt. Young Ana believes she killed her father, sees her mother’s spirit and dreams of poisoning her aunt. The masterpiece perfects Saura’s long artistic jo...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iraq
• 2010
• 75min

Right after Saddam Hussein’s regime collapsed, two Kurdish resistance soldiers found a lost Iraqi boy named ‘Saddam’, whose image, like an apparition, never shakes off. One sees a poor lost child, while the other sees the incarnat...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2010
• 60min

The film focuses on the lives of rubbish collectors. Working from 11 in the evening till mid-day, their aim is not to leave traces but to clean those that people leave behind. Although they call themselves as raccoons, who scaveng...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2010
• 115min

Unable to cope with the death of his wife, a man digs up her corpse and runs off with it. His father and his son run after him. It’s a road film about three generations of men. Unlike other road films where the road itself is as i...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2010
• 98min

[Dance Marathon], a new comer from Poland, the king of Eastern European classics, is a comedy involving a crowd that has gathered for a dance competition in a provincial town of Dabie. The crowd includes a priest, a nun, a mother ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2010
• 95min

Lee Jung-rim, left her husband in North Korea and works very hard to adapt to South Korean society. She has to endure cold eyes and is sexually harassed by an ex-policeman. Her status, as a defector and a female, makes her even mo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2010
• 131min

Suo Masayuki has created different kinds of films in which various genres coexist, but the genre of this film simply cannot be defined. Foremost, the film is a documentary chronicling the taping of Luigi Bonino’s newly reinterpret...

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 2010
• 89min

Teenagers gather to audition for the late Pina Bausch’s legendary Kontakthof because they simply want to dance. This black and white documentary is a simple yet touching portrayal of the audition process for amateur dancers, the r...

Wide Angle

• Switzerland
• 2010
• 83min

This documentary, co-directed by Pascal Hofmann and Benny Jaberg, depicts the eventful life of Daniel Schmid, a great Swiss director who left behind remarkable legacy of films and operas. The stories in this documentary range from...