A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2009
• 118min

Based on Yoshida Shuichi’s Parade, this film depicts the ‘breaking off of human relationships.’ Ryoshuke, Naoki, Kotomi and Mirai are four young friends who live together in a two-bedroom apartment. Their lives are ordinary, and n...

Open Cinema

• United States
• 2009
• 86min

This frightening supernatural shockumentary portrays Katie and Micah, a carefree couple who become haunted by an unseen presence in their house. Tired of hearing an unidentified noise night after night, they decide to investigate ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 78min

Adam, the son of an American politician, raids his wife’s secret rendezvous with her Filipino lover. In a mad fury, he murders the steward who helped his wife and her lover escape and hides the body. As Filipino police start inves...

Wide Angle

• Japan,Thailand
• 2009
• 70min

This film follows Anna, who contracted HIV from her ex-husband ten years ago. Anna marries Pom whom she met at a hospital. She makes her living by selling eggs at a marketplace every morning. During the day, she takes care of HIV-...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 93min

The documentary that gave birth to the term ‘Filipino independent films’, it follows the director’s life in the country as he drives a jeep for a living. It depicts the conflict between traditional Filipino life and the life as a ...

World Cinema

• France
• 2009
• 90min

Daniel works as a handyman in a newly rising building, and he sleeps there. Due to his free but rebellious personality, few people pay visit to him except an unknown mentally challenged man who occasionally breaks into the buildin...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2009
• 97min

Named best film at the 2009 Moscow International Film Festival, [Pete on the Way to Heaven] pivots on a young, somewhat mentally impaired man who lives his life pretending to be a local traffic cop. Everyone in town humors him in ...

Wide Angle

• Thailand
• 2009
• 30min

A famous Korean actress Jin (Im Soo Jung) comes to Phuket for a one-week holiday, whereas she cannot take a rest at all because of endless phone calls and paparazzies. Nevertheless, she develops an unexpected friendship with the h...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2009
• 82min

How does each of us watch movies and media? And how does that change from generation to generation? In a humorous, eye-opening documentary that spans the globe, the filmmaking father-daughter duo visit cinematic landmarks?Fellini’...

Wide Angle

• Afghanistan
• 2009
• 45min

Ay Nabaat is a 17 year-old girl from Afghanistan. Her life is interlocked to carpet strings and colors. Her father is engaged in a fued with another ethnic group so he decides to marry Ay Nabaat to a man who already has three wive...