A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2009
• 97min

Hiroko has been mostly unlucky. Always at the bottom of her class when young, and close to a loser at the moment, she expects a great reversal in her life. She is set to say goodbye forever to her pathetic past on the day of her w...

Wide Angle

• United States,Korea,France
• 2009
• 75min

[Kimjongilia], a flower known to be bred to celebrate North Korean leader Kim Jong Il′s 46th birthday,is used here ironically as the title of the film, in contrast to the stories the defectors tell. This film reveals stories told ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 105min

Winner of this year’s the best director award at Cannes. Pepping, who helps scoundrels for petty cash, lands a big gig to make money for his wedding. He is supposed to abduct a prostitute who didn’t pay her loans and teach her a l...

Flash Forward

• Romania,Germany
• 2009
• 100min

This is a newcomer fresh from Romania, to which we have become markedly familiar since [4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days] won the Palme d’Or in the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. The title says it all. On a rainy day, two guys arrive in a...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 18min

Even though Shinae’s dream has been a comic book artist, she has to give up her dream to become a public servant because her life is so harsh to pursuit her dream. Strangely, the day before the public servant exam at Seoul, she re...

New Currents

• China
• 2009
• 85min

A story about a girl that lives with her mother’s father. Jiang Wenli is a seasoned actor who is making a directorial debut with this autobiographical story that she wrote herself. It takes place in the late seventies during the ...

Flash Forward

• Finland,Germany
• 2009
• 123min

A family drama about unfortunate brothers who are a Finnish version of Cain and Abel. Eighteen-year-old Rupert still suffers from the nightmares of what his abusive father made him do when he was little. To him, his father is a cu...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2009
• 82min

In January of 2006, just outside of Las Vegas, Billy Gaines and Duncan Carroll held the inaugural World Series of Beer Pong (WSOBP). A drinking game that had been relegated to fraternity basements and local sports bars finally ha...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2009
• 100min

Hugo Weaving turns in an award-worthy performance as Kev, the troubled father of 10-year-old Chook, on a road trip after yet another violent act sends him on the run. The story hinges on the fractious relationship between the fath...

World Cinema

• Israel
• 2009
• 92min

Last year’s autobiographical [Waltz with Bashir] looked at the Israeli-Lebanese war of 1980s as a series of remembrances wrought in animated images. With [Lebanon], Samuel Maoz examines the same conflict as seen by a group of sold...