A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2009
• 125min

A ′cinema verite′ style film filled with snapshots of young kids jumping in the ocean to collect junk in the slums of Baceko Philippines. These children, known as the Bakal Boys, frequently get hurt and suffer from skin irritation...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2009
• 103min

“I realized that the only way we can begin to solve the world’s problems is to solve our own. And the key thing that goes missing, even in the most intimate relationships, is a true and constant accounting of who we were once, how...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2009
• 135min

Despite the film sets against the Japanese invasion of Nanjing in 1937, the director focuses on what is lost in war in its broad sense. He points out that there is no division between soldiers and civilians, not to mention winners...

Midnight Passion

• UK
• 2009
• 98min

Stephen and Cheryl are college students making a documentary about what people dread in life. The three set out to document people revealing their life's most terrifying moments. But Quaid quickly grows bored with mere interviews ...

Midnight Passion

• Australia
• 2009
• 89min

In a desert fishing town, happily married Rob and Jess have been trying to have a baby for three long years and she is becoming desperate. In a drunken mistake, she sleeps with Evan, a young stranger come to town whose interest in...

Wide Angle

• United States,Singapore
• 2009
• 7min

A black comedy depicting the events that conspire against O, who eats ramen on a fire escape. A gust of wind slams his window shut, leaving him stranded. He scrambles to the sidewalk, only to find every door and window locked - th...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2009
• 95min

“As a young man growing up in Alberta, I related immediately to Cole’s plight of wanting to build a better life for himself. His sense of entrapment in the town, his obligations to his family, to his history, to the family busines...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2009
• 15min

This is a moving film exploring the impact of love late in life and the pressures of obligation. Though Helen is devoted to her dying husband, her new and fulfilling relationship with Glen rekindles long-dormant desires and gives ...

Flash Forward

• Italy
• 2009
• 87min

Late ’50s to early ’60s, when the space war between the Soviet and US was fiercely going on, a fifteen-year-old member of the communist party, Luciana, develops her ideals while living with her bourgeois stepfather, and among male...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 132min

A man appears to a female reporter and claims he is the famous kidnapper that has the world astir and promises to turn himself in if she listens to his story. Though she is suspicious of him, she starts to fall more and more into ...