Special Programs in Focus

• Italy,UK
• 2009
• 92min

‘Yellow’ (Giallo) is a cold-blooded murderer who abducts beautiful women, tortures them physically and mentally, and then murders them. He always has women to torture and mainly selects visitors who cannot find lawyers. When an As...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2009
• 105min

Famous writer Guido is writing a selection of short stories. His work is nominated as the final contestant of a prestigious literary prize, but deep inside, he has doubt about himself as a writer. Taking swimming lessons instead o...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nepal,India
• 2009
• 99min

Living on the skirt of the Himalayas, a ten-year-old boy, Siddarth, lost his mom in a fire that occurred during a religious ritual and his dad was injured. Wondering why, the boy decides to search for God in order to ask if this u...

Opening Film

• Korea
• 2009
• 131min

Good Morning President is an abridged version of the politics and life of three different presidents. The three are: the older President Kim Jung-ho at the end of his term, the young President Cha Ji-wook, a skillful manipulator o...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 118min

The way in which [Haeundae] develops its plot can be considered a Koreanized transformation of Hollywood romantic narratives in the pre and post 1950’s. Man-sik and Yeon-hee see-saw, while being unsure as to whether they can be a ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2009
• 105min

An adaptation of the novel by Ngarmpun “Jane” Vejjajiva about nine-year-old Kati’s sorrow and hope. Kati lives with her grandparents, and cannot even remember her mom’s face. Still, she is a normal, always cheerful child, due to h...

World Cinema

• Ireland
• 2009
• 104min

Freddie is getting re-married to his ex-wife, Sophie. Maura is being paid to have a fake wedding ceremony. Freddie and Maura are booked at the same wedding reception place at the same time, and from there things get complicated. O...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 96min

Following the film war after ten years, and upon hearing that his wife and daughter died after being raped by the village teacher, draws a knife on him. The village teacher is a corrupt dictator who brings suffering and misery to ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2009
• 86min

A documentary director documents the curing process of patients while following the past and present of the staffs and patients in the mental hospital. This film follows the changes of a middle aged man He Zhiyuan, who is admitted...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iraq
• 2009
• 84min

1988, Kurdistan. Before the Iraqi government’s Operation Anfal to massacre and suppress the Kurds separatist movement began, two lovers Herman and Adar ‘who missed each other even while together’ were forced to be separated due to...