Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2010
• 88min

Paired with Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien over the years, Cinematographer Mark Lee’s camera has presented the distinctive look of the world. Slow yet never boring, indifferent yet never loosing anything, his camera captures the...

World Cinema

• Republic of South Africa,Germany
• 2010
• 105min

Chanda, a 12-year-old girl lives in a dusty small South African township not far from Johannesburg. When her newborn baby sister suddenly dies and her mother becomes ill, the neighbours become distant. With the help of her aunt, h...

World Cinema

• Belgium
• 2010
• 74min

Three poor and starving beggars sing epiphany on Christmas Eve to get some food. They earn food and drinks but soon get lost in the woods on the way home. While lost, they witness the birth of Little Baby Jesus. Dazzled with this ...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2010
• 118min

1968. A well-known underground writer, another man who must observe and eliminate him, and that man’s lover, who approaches and spies on the writer ? they are the core of this romantic thriller. At first, Little Rose is forced to ...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2010
• 72min

A thriller between two runaways and the three people who chase them. It’s a human-drama about cruel choice that these runaways are faced with. It interrogates the truth at a moment between life and death, and asks the viewers what...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2010
• 15min

Joon is harsh toward his father, who has lost a leg and is confined to a back room. Haunted by the memories of violence and finding himself looking like his father, Joon makes his final decision. With experimental intercuts betwee...

Flash Forward

• Australia
• 2010
• 80min

This is the story of Lou, who goes through painful growing pains because of her ‘dangerous love’ with her grandfather. Their father left them and her mother must work hard to maintain a living, and on top of all this, 11-year-old ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2010
• 103min

The film is the latest work by Pang Ho-cheung, one of the most active directors in the contemporary Hong Kong film industry. As Hong Kong started banning smoking, even outside buildings, in 2007, smokers were forced into the backs...

World Cinema

• Brazil
• 2010
• 102min

Rio de Janeiro on December 23rd. Gabriel’s goal is to find his father who abandoned him a few years ago. With a wrong address, he wonders around the city and gets involved in a series of events. While looking for his father, Gabri...

New Currents

• Hong Kong,China
• 2010
• 118min

Reuniting with a long-lost sweetheart provokes the nascent sense of love, the now-faded memory of heartbreaks, and odd discoveries of belonging to others. [Lover’s Discourse] tells a cliche love story in an irresistibly sweet lang...