New Currents

• China
• 2010
• 112min

[The Old Donkey] recollects the meaning of land to an older generation of Chinese who lived through rough patches of history. 84-year-old rural villager Old Ma is also called “Old Donkey” for his habit of riding a donkey at all ti...

Open Cinema

• Italy
• 2010
• 106min

Drained of all inspiration, Gianni hasn’t made a film for years when he finally gets to direct the movie debut of a TV star. Unfortunately, a leak in his Tuscan home ruins a 16th century fresco, and to avoid being sued he is force...

New Currents

• Iraq
• 2010
• 76min

[The Quarter of Scarecrows] exposes the misery and sorrow of war through the thickets of symbolic imagery. The land where the years of the Iran-Iraq war left its scars attracts a troop of crows. Worried for his crops, a farm owner...

Gala Presentation

• Korea
• 2010
• 107min

A notorious murderer’s last words before execution are a request to have the soybean soup he had before his arrest. In the same way the reporter tried to uncover the meaning of ‘Rosebud’ in Citizen Kane, a broadcast producer star...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2010
• 130min

This is a remake of the popular Thai series from the ’60s also called [Red Eagle]. Wisit Sasanatieng, who possesses an eye for the most unique cinematic colors, is the director. Mitr Chaibancha, killed in an accident while shootin...

Midnight Passion

• Australia
• 2010
• 87min

Four friends cruise the world′s most beautiful coral reef on their own yacht. But their boat capsizes leaving them stranded on an overturned hull and they swim to the closest land. Soon they are being stalked by a deadly fifteen f...

World Cinema

• Germany,France
• 2010
• 83min

Up above, next to the moon, is Dreamland, the home of Sandman. One day the evil dream Habumar steals the Sand of Dreams, which the Sandman uses to make all children fall asleep. The sleep sheep Nepomuk is sent to the real world to...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2010
• 119min

A remote Siberian village with the hopeless name ′Edge′. Here the exiled ′traitors of the Motherland′ fell trees, and an old steam locomotive carrying timber runs between the regional center and dense taiga. This is the place whe...

Special Programs in Focus

• Spain
• 2010
• 92min

Obtuse brother and sister Paquita and Venancio live with their oldest sister Ignacia in a small village near Madrid. One night, Paquita overhears Ignacia’s plan to sell the family home and go to Paris, leaving the two siblings beh...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia,Japan
• 2010
• 84min

Like Woo Ming-Jin’s earlier movies, this was inspired by a newspaper story ? this time, a story about a Malaysian-Chinese woman who used Burmese and Indonesian economic migrants to breed babies which she would sell. However, the f...