Wide Angle

• WEN ZongJi
• China
• 2010
• 14min

A man pitches a story for an editor in 10 minutes: A story of fat Mars, who has peculiar table manners and marries a beautiful woman contrary to everyone’s expectations. While their marriage fails in no time, the pitcher turns thi...

Korean Cinema Today

• E J-yong
• Korea
• 2010
• 104

Six actresses from different generations come together for a magazine fashion shoot. The employees work in a tense atmosphere where a psychological tug-of-war enrages among the actresses. The actresses raise their voice as time go...

World Cinema

• Johannes NABER
• Germany,Albania
• 2010
• 104min

A one-way trip into the dark side of the European dream, where nobody cares, and where exile, loneliness and money prevail. [The Albanian] is the story of Arben, who leaves Europe’s poorest country for the richest. He needs money...

Open Cinema

• Steven SILVER
• Canada,Republic of South Africa
• 2010
• 113min

This is a realistic human dramatization of the activities of four photojournalists who documented the horrors of Apartheid accompanied by a series of love stories, based on the memoirs of Pulitzer Prize winners Greg Marinovich and...

Wide Angle

• MASAYA Matsui
• Japan
• 2010
• 17min

A boy meets a mysterious lady in the midst of a desert where a rocket crashed. Men worship her with gifts, and she guides them to the deepest part of the desert. The boy wonders if she is the god who was on the crashed rocket. Whe...

Open Cinema

• Wuershan
• China,United States,Hong Kong,China
• 2010
• 95min

[The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman] follows the journey of a mystical blade as it passes through the hands of three ambitious men. As the interwoven story unfolds, they find that the blade possesses the power to dramatically...

Special Programs in Focus

• Miraz BEZAR
• Turkey
• 2010
• 109min

A normal family outing turns into a nightmare. When their parents are murdered, the younger brother and sister are left with the baby. They scrape through by, selling furniture, but the ordeal seems to be endless. Children orphane...

Special Programs in Focus

• Carlos SAURA
• Spain
• 2010
• 88min

Julian, Ramon, Juan, El Chato, Paco and Manolo are a group of low class youths wandering the impoverished streets of Madrid. To help Juan become a bullfighter, his friends steal money, and one of them eventually dies. Carlos Saura...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• WANG Bing
• China,France,Belgium
• 2010
• 108min

In the late 1950s, people considered right wing sent to the labor camp in the middle of Gobi desert. Harsh labor, unbearable weather and the horrible shortage of the food push the people disappeared into the sandy ditch of the nig...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Freddie WONG
• Hong Kong,China
• 2010
• 106min

According to director Freddie Wong, Hong Kong’s culture in the 21st century is not so different from that of the 1960s. Pop fiction and martial arts novels prevail over serious literature, and most of all, money is a priority abov...