Closing Film

• China
• 2009
• 120min

China, 1942. The Chinese leaders acting as Japanese puppets are assassinated one after another. In order to catch the “phantom”, the spy within the intelligence sector, the Japanese create a false code and confines the only five p...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2009
• 105min

“The film is not about casualties of war really. It′s about the people left behind to deal with life after casualties of war have gone. [The Messenger] may say a thing or two about war, but I think it ultimately deals with grief a...

World Cinema

• Spain,Peru
• 2009
• 94min

Because of the dread inspired in her by her the horrors of systematic sexual violence her mother suffered during the Shining Path years in Peru, Fausta keeps a potato lodged in her vagina as a precaution. Fausta also suffers this ...

Special Programs in Focus

• United States
• 2009
• 106min

This film portrays the well-known story of Helen Keller and her devoted teacher Anne Sullivan. Arthur Penn presented the 1962 work with moving and experimental traits, while Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke received Academy Awards for...

World Cinema

• Belgium
• 2009
• 96min

Becoming successful doesn’t require a good rearing environment. The thirteen-year-old boy in this film is proof of just that. Although the boy grew up in an environment where his father behaved like a dog and lived in his grandmot...

World Cinema

• Georgia,Kazakhstan
• 2009
• 93min

Starring non-professional young actor Tedo Bekhauri, George Ovashvili’s debut is a moving, unsentimental film about war that will speak to Russians and Georgians in particular, but carries a universal truth at its core that will r...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2009
• 120min

The film contains the journey taken in search of a lost song. Famous singer Rasoolan Bai from 1950s India used her own singing methods and changed the lyrics to create different versions of the ‘thumri’ (a genre of traditional Ind...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 85min

In the blue mansion, Aeran, Hyunma’s lover, lives with her sister, Miran. Hyunma visits this place with his secretary, Danju. The homosexual relationship between Hyunma and Danju, and eloping relationship between Danju and Miran r...

World Cinema

• Mali
• 2009
• 84min

In the dark night of Mali, with the sound of Kora, the traditional musical instrument of Mali, the legend of “Fantan Fanga (The Power of the Poor)” begins. Prior to the presidential election, an albino is found decapitated. Fafa, ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2009
• 124min

A boy is riding a bicycle upon a vast field to go to school. The school will be shut down if the number of students is less than sixteen. A young female teacher is waiting for the 16th student, as the bicycle shows up, the school ...