Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 16min

A delivery person, Woon-jong gets into an accident at the unprotected zone while doing his job, and has to pay the other driver. Soon he is asked for another delivery job. Unfortunately, he is stuck on the Han River bridge because...

World Cinema

• Russia,UK
• 2009
• 110min

One of World War II’s most devastating and deadly battles was not an armed fight at all. It was the 900-day siege of Leningrad, a protracted Nazi operation that took the lives of millions of soldiers and civilians. With [Leningrad...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan
• 2009
• 92min

One winter night, Gulnara meets a novelist by chance, brings him home to her house, and spends the night with him. The writer tells Gulnara an interesting, original story that he wrote and Gulnara also tells him a story in respons...

World Cinema

• Finland
• 2009
• 74min

When the needed becomes the needy, faith can take on transcendental meaning. Leila is a convict freshly released from prison after only 12 years of a life sentence for murder. With few options open to her, she takes a job as an as...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 126min

Invited to serve on the jury at a film festival, Director Ku does not care about his supposed-to-dos. Rather, chatting at parties and drinking now seem to be his all time favorites. Ku runs into an old friend who insists he come o...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2009
• 86min

First-time filmmaker Eugene Kim realizes a wholly contemporary teen slacker drama that rings true even as it treads in bittersweet romance. Skateboarder Kohl seems to be headed for a life of second-bests when he meets Sarah, an ho...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines,France
• 2009
• 115min

Two grandmothers, one has lost her grandson, and the other is the murderer’s grandmother. The former must arrange for her grandson’s funeral costs, and the latter must provide the bail. Director Brillante Mendoza does not talk abo...

World Cinema

• SouthAfrica
• 2009
• 96min

Having separated parents, Sia is addicted to drugs. Sia comes home after treatment and rehabilitation, but she has already lost trust from Maria, her mother. Maris receives an offer to sing a chanson. When Maria went to the auditi...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 81min

This film follows a trip to Chuncheon. It is the second feature from director Jeon Kye Soo and an interesting repetition of Hong Sangsoo’s film, and shows the cinematic impulse of Jeon Kye Soo. He is indeed an audacious director. ...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2009
• 115min

This film explores how easily human life can be neglected and abandoned in a large city. Mikio and his older brother Saneo, who is mentally handicapped, live together and have just buried their father. One day, Mikio hires a hooke...