A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2009
• 111min

If somebody doesn’t shed a single teardrop for ten years, what does it tell about his life? A soonto- be retired detective Kuo is living alone in a shabby hotel and is holding tightly his dark past after divorcing his wife and sep...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2009

Anthony, a happy husband and father, has a bad dream about his son’s brutal murder. His nightmare materializes one day when Anthony comes back after being checked by his father, a doctor who cares obsessively for his son’s health....

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2009
• 120min

The story is about a special experience of a homeless street boy, Municipality, in the great city, Mumbai. A twelve-year-old boy gets arrested for stealing a wallet, and finds a newborn baby abandoned on the street while on the ru...

World Cinema

• Azerbaijan
• 2009
• 82min

Among the petty street thugs and young hustlers living in the far-flung outskirts of Baku is Rustam, a teenaged boy with aspirations to musical stardom. Upon hearing of his father’s death, Rustam is forced to find a way to provide...

World Cinema

• France,Senegal
• 2009
• 81min

Adama, who achieved accomplishment as a scientist in France, returns to his motherland after fifteen years when he received a letter saying his grandmother was in critical condition. His grandmother and sister, Aicha, greet him, b...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2009
• 8min

This film follows a girl with a magic book who one day accidentally leaves it open. The contents of the book become lost. She decides to go on a journey to seek for new knowledge and dreams to fill the book. During the journey sh...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 108min

During a village shaman exorcism, Hane-ne tried to commit suicide, but was saved by a farmhand, Man-young. As Pil-joo is added to the equation of two people, a complicated history of the village is revealed. Ha Kil-chong’s own sty...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy,Germany
• 2009
• 96min

Sam, an American writer, is vacationing in Rome with his lover. While out on a walk one night, he spots a man and a woman in a scuffle and runs over, but only the woman is left. While Sam is suspicious of what he witnessed that ni...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 100min

Maxi, a twelve-year-old gay boy, lives with his family who makes a living by committing crimes. He sees Victor, a handsome newly recruited police officer next door, falls in love, and gets in trouble. As the police narrow in on h...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore,Malaysia
• 2009
• 107min

A tycoon, who faced the sudden death, returns as a ghost and watches his family’s confrontations unfold. His sons argue over the matter of successor and their hidden emotions among the family members including the wife and daughte...