A Window on Asian Cinema
Pinoy Sunday[Pinoy Sunday] is a black comedy depicting a ruckus involving Filipino migrant workers in Taiwan and a leather sofa. Manuel and Dado work on a bicycle assembly line, troubling themselves about women. On their day off, however, the...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Please Don’t DisturbA rising TV host follows his wife and tries to persuade to change her mind, who announced to divorce him for the domestic violence. A Muslim scholar who lost his money and documents endures the hardship to retrieve them. An old co...
Special Programs in Focus
Plum BlossomJahyo, a senior in high school, loses his virginity to his classmate while his friend, Soo-in, falls for a teacher. [Plum Blossom] follows the struggles of these teenagers through the pain of love and growth. Even in college, the ...
Wide Angle
Poet of the Elephant HouseSwedish documentarian Anna Juhlin paints a portrait of a Turkish-Swedish poet who is also her grandfather. The film is a story of a poet who photographed major figures, among them Man Ray and Samuel Beckett, and also a portrait of...
Korean Cinema Today
PoetryMija a woman in her sixties takes a poetry class and for the first time in her life, ponders poetry. When she returns home, she finds out that her middle school grandson is mixed up in the sexual assault of a schoolgirl and so she...
Special Programs in Focus
Portrait of the Days of YouthBased on a novel by Lee Mun-yeol, [Portrait of the Days of Youth] portrays a teenager growing up, Young-hun has sexual encounters with various women in his life ? a high school sweetheart, a rich heiress from college, and a prosti...
World Cinema
Portraits in a Sea of LiesFollowing the accidental death of their grandfather, amnesic and mute Marina and her cousin Jairo, a roving photographer, decide to take a trip back to their hometown. They travel in a beaten up old Renault, taking pictures as the...
World Cinema
PoticheLate ‘70s France. Suzanne lives the life of a traditional housewife, taking care of her 2 children and her grumpy husband, Robert, who runs an umbrella factory. When the factory workers stage a strike, Robert is taken hostage. In ...
Wide Angle
Promise of a Spring DayHomemaker Young-sook receives a call from Duk-won inviting her to a class reunion one spring day. She is preoccupied with picking up after her husband and child, so keeping an appointment is not easy. A must for mothers who spent ...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Promise of the FleshThis film, a remake of Lee Man-hee’s Late Autumn(1966), reunited director Kim Ki-young and Jimi Kim. Suk-young(Jimi Kim), a model prisoner in her thirties, meets Hoon(Lee Jung-gil) on a train to her mother’s grave. As Hoon is purs...