World Cinema

• Australia
• 2010
• 97min

With poetic sense and keen storytelling, Ben C. Lucas creates a unique debut feature. In an elite high school that strictly enforces social status, Zack is the king, and his stepbrother Darren is a passive member of his clique. Tr...

New Currents

• Philippines
• 2010
• 77min

Tracking a group of illegally trafficked people from Mindanao to Malaysia, Ways of the Sea focuses instead on the hopes and dreams of those trafficked as they seek to escape poverty and instead run into perilous uncertainty.

World Cinema

• Italy,France
• 2010
• 204min

After the fierce Bourbon repression of the 1828 uprisings in Sicily, Domenico, Angelo and Salvatore decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Italy. Through the destinies of three young men, the film takes the audience into the nine...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2010
• 104min

Shama Town is the fount of this story. It is a place where a Chinese Robin Hood makes a name and the hideout for a guerilla group called a bandit. The people of Shama Town earn their living by performing the heroic saga of the lea...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2010
• 9min

A sheriff crosses a desolate field on horseback and enters a village. There are some eyes fixed on sheriff in the village. The audience identifies with the anonymous observers and this arouses intensity of typical western film gen...

Gala Presentation

• Taiwan
• 2010
• 107min

To director Chang Tso-chi, the ‘family’ is a miniature version of Taiwanese society, and the most important element in finding the true meaning of life. Thus his films have consistently told stories of family problems. He does it...

World Cinema

• Serbia
• 2010
• 121min

This tragic musical is set in Bor, a contaminated mining town in southeastern Serbia where the most serious crimes arise in the country. Director Oleg Novkovic says, “I am fascinated with stories on fate, sin, and destiny, which c...

World Cinema

• Argentina,Spain
• 2010
• 123min

Set during Argentina′s 2001 political and economic crisis, an idyllic life goes on as usual in a gated community of luxurious villas. Families seem to continue a picture perfect life separated from reality but on the inside, each ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2010
• 120min

[Winter Wanderer] is director Kwak Ji-kyun’s debut film, a melodrama involving Minwoo, his old sweetheart Da-hye, and a prostitute, Eun-young. In absence of her lover, Da-hye comes to depend on Minwoo’s old friend, Hyuntae, while ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia
• 2010
• 87min

Azam who left the village returns home. He spends the night talking with his childhood friend Ali and his wife Minah at the island. And for fun, Azam dives under the water and disappears into the sea. Year without a Summer is comp...