World Cinema

• Germany,France,Austria,Italy
• 2009
• 145min

The best film of 2009 and winner of the Palme d′Or at Cannes this year, it was selected as The Best Film of the Year by the world’s biggest critic’s association, FIPRESCI. However, it won’t be likely to get the same acclaim from g...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2009
• 98min

After her divorce, Maria lives alone but strongly as a teacher at a night school. She meets a new boyfriend when she goes to a movie and has a sweet time together. When she gets unexpectedly pregnant, she breaks up with him after ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bangladesh
• 2009
• 124min

How is the independence of women possible in conservative Islamic society? Even though ‘Bangladeshi cinema’ sounds a little strange, the question raised by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is a familiar one beyond the border. The film start...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 145min

Sang-hyun, a priest working for a hospital, selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project intended to eradicate a deadly virus. However, the virus eventually takes the priest. He nearly dies, but makes a miraculou...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2009
• 61min

Lee Chong Ngak (70) has cancer while his daughter, Ellen Lee, volunteers at a hospice. She videotapes her dad’s last days documenting his wishes so the son cannot stir up troubles. As Lee suffers the strength of the family is put ...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2009
• 21min

In a motel room a sexual threesome has been arranged. The two men lying in wait are officers from the Central Narcotics Bureau, ready to apprehend their suspect, who is going to show up with crystal meth at any moment.

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2009
• 131min

Yakusho Koji, a popular Japanese actor who has worked with directors such as Imamura Shohei, Suo Masayuki, and Kurosawa Kiyoshi, is the director and an actor in this film. Koji’s debut film brings a fantastic, comical, and somehow...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,Japan
• 2009
• 76min

Ryo, the lead singer of a band scheduled to perform in Seoul, is terrified of airplanes. So after sending the rest of the band off, he decides to take a taxi from Tokyo to Seoul. The road to Seoul is a non-stop series of surprises...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 29min

There is a woman. All her life, she has blamed her bad breath for all her pain and bad luck. And there is a man. He talks too much, making troubles here and there. These two people come to fall in love with each other. Soon, howev...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2009
• 82min

From producer Bryan Singer and writer/director Michael Dougherty create a creepy, darkly comic celebration of the scariest night of the year ? Halloween. Four interwoven tales set on Halloween night: a high school principal who mo...