Midnight Passion

• Canada
• 2009
• 93min

In the claustrophobic confines of a jail cell, an inmate is discovered hanged. His three cellmates attempt to save him, but are too late. The three cellmates are interviewed separately in order to determine the progression of even...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2009
• 92min

Detective Tom Adkins’ son Tommy Jr. disappears on a fateful Fourth of July afternoon, and in the ensuing eight years Tom’s work becomes an obsession for him. Tom attempts to solve the case of his missing son, but his efforts have ...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2009
• 29min

This summer is really tough for Xiao Guang. He longs to leave the city and return to the countryside. His father is too busy, so Xiao Guang stays with his step-mother Yuan Jie. Xiao Guang was really close to his grandfather. But r...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,Hong Kong
• 2009
• 112min

[Sun Spots] deals with the imperfect love of a young couple set in a small town in Southern China. A boy living in a boring life becomes a contracted gangster near the city. One day he meets a girl, who sleeps by the riverside aft...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2009
• 84min

Andrzej Wajda turns his camera toward the subject of death in his latest film, [Sweet Rush], a triptych that connects an adaptation of a short story by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (a Wajda favorite), a mini-documentary about making the ...

Gala Presentation

• Japan
• 2009
• 93min

Matsumoto Hitoshi’s second film [Symbol] (2009) follows a popular and charismatic comedian in Japan and is similar to [Dai Nipponjin] (2007), and [Big Man Japan] (American Version). It has brilliant wit and shows the work of a sur...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2009
• 94min

[Taipei 24H] divides 24 hours in Taipei into 8 segments, giving each segment to a filmmaker to tell a Taipei story. It opens with Cheng Fen-fen′s upbeat and comedic [Share the Morning], and has Lee Kang-sheng running the final leg...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia
• 2009
• 110min

A high school in Malaysia is holding their 7th annual talent show. All the students, their families, and the teachers involved in the talent show and their stories in [Talentime] show the dark side of Malaysian society and the com...

World Cinema

• Romania,France
• 2009
• 155min

Without Cristian Mungiu of [4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days], this legendary omnibus film hasn’t come out into the world. Five directors including Mungiu dramatize their unique personal experiences from the end part of the Ceausescu ad...

Special Programs in Focus

• United States
• 2009
• 113min

Vietnam war veteran Travis works as nighttime taxi driver nursing his wounds from the war. He sees New York as a degenerated city swarming with pimps, whores and junkies. Frequently spotted on many film masterpiece lists from all ...