Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 124min

Out of fourteen ministers taken away by the communist troop, only two comes back alive. The mystery behind their survival is at the issue here. Told through one of the survivor’s testimony, depicts images of men troubled between t...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2009
• 94min

It could be said that the clay-animation [Mary and Max] is a film by, for, and about people who don’t “fit in,” or who don’t think they do?whatever that may entail. Based on animator Adam Elliot’s own 20-year pen-pal friendship, t...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 101min

This film is a story of May and En-seol. May returns to Seoul looking for her birth mother after 23 years of life as a Korean-American adoptee. En-seol is a taxi driver suffering from a rare cardiac disease. Following their chance...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,Japan,China
• 2009
• 77min

Hong Kong’s most beloved animated characters return to the big screen for this 4th installment, in which McDull is sent to a martial arts school in China by his mother, who is eager for McDull to live up to his full potential.

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 85min

May of 2006, the Ministry of Defense enforces a moveout of Daechuri in order to make room for the expanding U.S. base. ‘Protectors’ who support the residents fighting against the action move into the village to help protect it. Pe...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,France
• 2009
• 90min

A sixth generation Chinese director’s dense melodrama. Director Wang Chao has created a pure melodrama about the bourgeoisie. Has the Chinese underground film scene finally compromised with the dominating market? No. Wang Chao’s m...

World Cinema

• Croatia
• 2009
• 85min

Croatia as a nation is still emerging from the shadow of war, and in [Metastases], that shadow looms long. Set in Zagreb’s criminal underworld and drug subculture, the film explores how the young post-war generation struggles to a...

World Cinema

• Sweden,Denmark,Norway
• 2009
• 82min

An all-star cast that includes Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Udo Kier, Stellan and Alexander Skarsgard lends their voices to this ambitious film four years in the making. In classic paranoid science fiction tradition comes Tarik ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 24min

From the early morning, Soo-jin is full of worries. Her mother is making fried seaweeds for her son, who returns from US next week. Despite the great weather, today is such a long day for Soo-jin. She couldn′t tell her mother abou...

Special Programs in Focus

• United States
• 2009
• 113min

Joe, a naive youngster from Texas, blindly arrives in New York to earn money by selling himself to women. As one of the major works by the great master John Schlesinger, this film touched the heartstrings of audiences all over the...