Gala Presentation

• France,United States
• 2009
• 110min

In Los Angeles, Kline (Josh Hartnett), a young ex-cop, is struggling with the psychological trauma of his last case: tracking down and slaying a serial killer. Turning to private detective work, Kline is hired by a rich Chinese bu...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2009
• 98min

Inspired by the director’s own experience, [I’m in Trouble!] shows a typical love story during our time. A third-rate poet meets and separates with his girlfriend repeatedly and becomes entangled with his acquaintance and an edito...

World Cinema

• Italy,France
• 2009
• 101min

Italy around 1968, the year of the revolution. Nicola is a police officer who wants to be an actor. While in civilian attire, in the middle of students shouting for freedom of sex and against Vietnam, he meets Laura and falls in l...

Gala Presentation

• Korea
• 2009
• 87min

When Jung-ha loses her husband in an accident, Naru, her husband’s secret lover, comes to her. Naru begs Jung-ha that she will do anything if only she will let her stay at her house. Jung-ha denies her at first, but eventually the...

Wide Angle

• Nepal
• 2009
• 86min

Since the 1990s, Nepal has become a pipeline of cheap labour to the Gulf. This film shows glimpses of the migrant′s displacement and his gritty working conditions in the alien and stultifying environment of the Gulf, rarely captu...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines,France,Germany,Netherlands
• 2009
• 77min

Raya Martin’s second film deals with Filipino colonial era. Showing the American colonization era after his first approach to the Spanish colonization era, the film mimics the news reel and silent films of the early 20th century. ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 96min

This controversial film was the first Filipino film invited to Cannes. Insiang endures abuse from her mother and betrayal from her lover. The town scamp Dado moves in with her mother to get to Insiang and eventually rapes her. But...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 32min

Having dealt with the issue of coal mines in Sabook, the director now poses the insightful question of point of view, the fundamental element of cinema. The film utilizes the form of ‘interviews’, which is one of the most conventi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 105min

Photographer Joon returns home to be with his father who is paralyzed. He meets a mysterious woman named Theresa by chance and realizes the ghost of his dead sister is inside her. While solving the problem, hidden family secrets s...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2009
• 94min

In the early Showa era there was a man who kept breaking out of jails. His name was Masayuki Suzuki. His creative ways of breaking out and transcending physical ability, made every single escape a wonder to behold. He was always s...