World Cinema

• Poland,Japan
• 2010
• 117min

Three homeless Russian boys go to Poland in hopes of better future. The boys clutch on to hope that any place will be better than their homeland which has neglected them. Therefore, although the underlining themes of the film may ...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2010
• 22min

A divorced father lives in the remote countryside keeping bees. His son comes to him against mother’s wishes. As he paints the wall of the house with a petite decorative flowerpot, sympathy and dissatisfaction with his father fill...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2010
• 94min

[Twice a Woman] is a feminist drama about Catherine, who, after her violent husband puts her life in serious danger one night, decides to run away with her son to start a new life under a fresh identity. She travels to the backwoo...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2010
• 117min

Three children are hanging out together, re-enacting the bond from ‘San Guo Shi’ and obsessing over with Star Wars. These seemingly typical boys are all autistic. Fond of drawing, the boys gather around and work on surprisingly el...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2010
• 138min

Rohan, a 17-year-old boy dreaming of becoming a writer, is in a boarding school. One day he sneaks out to see a movie, which gets him expelled. Waiting for him at home is the father who has never tried to see him in 8 years and a ...

Opening Film

• China,Hong Kong,China
• 2010
• 115min

Zhang Yimou returns to the humble style of his early films after many years of large-scale projects like Lovers, House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Curse of the Golden Flower, and the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2010
• 123min

This is a comedy about an oriental medicine doctor and his daughter′s Western doctor suitor in a constant battle with each other. The conflict deepens as the two decide to run for office, for there exists a generation gap in their...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2010
• 33min

‘What differentiates big issues from small issues?’ Jong-Geun never neglects tiny details. At the fruit small and village launderette, everyone seems to disregard his small demands. Within words such as ‘trifling’, ‘shameful’, an...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2010
• 91min

A mysterious, seemingly global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish. A few survivors band together in a dimly-lit tavern on 7th Street, struggling to combat the apocalyptic horror. Realizing they may in fact be t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2010
• 139min

This year’s PIFF, celebrating its 15th anniversary, presents quite a few Japanese films whose directors have deep relationships with Pusan. It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that Lee Sang-il, introducing the powerfully ti...