World Cinema

• France,Italy,Greece
• 2009
• 111min

Elias left his motherland Greece and got on a boat to Paris; on the way, he threw himself into the ocean to avoid the police. Coincidently sneaked into a resort, he hangs out with wealthy Westerners, and finally through ups and do...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2009
• 101min

A gritty and well-crafted saga on Hong Kong triads. Wo Sing Society, a historied Hong Kong triad elects its chairman every two years. This year’s two candidates, Big D and Lok’s discord results bloody messes between their supporte...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2009
• 85min

Time flies like an arrow, especially when the dragon head baton is in your hand. Two years after [Election], the Wo Sing Society needs the next chairman. Well-educated businessman Jimmy is the strongest candidate although he wants...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 121min

In Korean culture, the term ‘three generations’ was treated with much meaning. It signifies the change of the history and at the same time, the origin of an unchanging Korean society and culture. Director Park Dong-hoon took three...

World Cinema

• United States,Colombia
• 2009
• 82min

Loosely based on true events, [Entre Nos] is a study in the inherent resilience of humanity and one woman’s ferocious battle to keep her family together. It is also casts a cold eye on the quest for the so-called American Dream an...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2009
• 120min

A romantic comedy featuring six couples and their ex(s) during the period between Christmas and St. Valentine’s day. Many cases are shown in the film: a policeman stalking his ex-girlfriend, a divorce judge who faces a divorce of ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong
• 2009
• 109min

After two [Election] films, To turns his eyes once again to his trademark ? an elegantly composed action movie. Loosely based on To’s landmark film [The Mission], [Exiled] tells a story of five friends who are at the end of each o...

World Cinema

• Portugal
• 2009
• 118min

Prevailing middle-class violence is the subject of this film, told in three timelines, about a cop, a victim, and a perpetrator. In the present, the cop at the scene is crushed beneath the weight of responsibility; in the future, ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,France,Belgium,Netherlands
• 2009
• 141min

A Taiwanese filmmaker (Lee Kang-Sheng) makes a film based on the myth of Salome at the Louvre. Even though he speaks neither French nor English, he insists on giving the part of King Herod to the French actor Antoine (Jean-Pierre ...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2009
• 169min

At eighty-four years of age, Master Cai is the last great Naxi folk musician on the north shore of the Jinsha River. He depends on his mentally-disabled son for a living. With little time left together, the father and son relation...