World Cinema

• Germany
• 2009
• 86min

“We need other people. We need to see beyond our own concerns, to communicate, ask questions, share our questions?for life offers no answers and love promises nothing. Hanna’s poems become Martin’s treasure: her images cry out for...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy
• 2009
• 113min

Women are being murdered in the same way as the serial killings that took place in Torino, seventeen years ago. There were paper animal shapes left at the scene in the past, and the case was closed when a ‘giallo’ writer named Vin...

World Cinema

• Slovenia,Germany,Serbia,Croatia
• 2009
• 90min

A young woman willing to go to any lengths for status and wealth gets more than she bargained for while working as a prostitute. Coming across as an average English student, Aleksandra moves from her dead-end industrial hometown t...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 32min

Customs at the pier is where all crews have to go through in order to arrive at a harbor. A wife, who came to the port to meet her husband, waits without knowing when he will arrive and wanders around the customs. Around sunset, s...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 29min

A 20-year-old Jin-seop is a sole bread-earner for his family of the ailing mother and a 5-year-old brother. Jin-seop’s plea to defer his Army draft on the basis of the only caregiver to the family was denied because his long gone ...

Wide Angle

• Korea,Japan
• 2009
• 82min

Yang Yong-hi has already told a personal tale of North Korea through her previous film [Dear Pyongyang]. This time, she introduces ‘Sona’, the daughter of her brother who moved to North Korea from Japan in the early 1970s. Through...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2009
• 112min

The curse of Apartment number 504 is the horror and potential downfall residing within us. This is the exceptional debut of director Yoon Jong-chan, and is also where Jang’s appeal was first revealed to us as an actress in earnest...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 17min

A soon-to-be-father, In-su, faces difficulties with his own father. Leaving a second hand political science bookstore and an unmanageable debt, In-su′s father disappears. Not able to endure any longer, In-su begins to cut ties wit...

New Currents

• Philippines
• 2009
• 91min

The story of four men in Manila goes on in the format of an omnibus. Ariel, a con-man, living on manipulating documents and deceiving women, encounters a girl Elgin, and faces the change of heart; Boy is busy to making money for h...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 73min

On the night of June 30, 2007, cashiers and salespeople of Homever, a superstore, started to fight for their rights and to disclose issues regarding contract-worker protection laws. This was not only the first in-house picketing a...