New Currents

• Tajikistan
• 2009
• 83min

This film gives one the impression that they’re watching a piece from the Theatre of the Absurd. The moment humans draw a line on the ground and declare it a borderline, the ground becomes divided between them. Though the wind, th...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 111min

Based on Han-gang’s famous short story, [Mongolian Spot], about an artist who falls for his vegetarian sister-in-law. He paints her body and feels the desire to take her. [Vegetarian] is a film that unites desire with art by adapt...

Special Programs in Focus

• France,Hong Kong,China
• 2009
• 108min

Costello (French star rocker and occasional actor Johnny Hallyday) goes to Macau to avenge his daughter and her family. Officially, he’s a French chef. Twenty years ago, he was a killer. Being a stranger in town, he joins forces w...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 95min

A sister looking for her runaway younger sister, an animator wandering after leaving work, a reporter, and people who work on a highway rest area are featured in this film. Director Kim Jeong shows various frames materialized by t...

New Currents

• India
• 2009
• 120min

This is a teen movie about a teenager who experiences the death of a loved one. Sameer and Nachiket are relatives and friends. Nachiket, who is more mature, wants to escape his stifling surroundings. Sameer does not understand thi...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2009
• 128min

Ida fell love with Mussolini at first sight, and she actively supports Mussolini with her socialistic daily paper ‘Avanti’. After becoming right wing, she commits all her fortune to establish ‘Popolo d’Italia’, the predecessor of ...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2009
• 44min

The opening scene starts with piece of Chador fabric flapping in the wind. Iranian women trapped under the Chador and virginity issue that traps Iranian women once again is a painful and paradoxical side of Iran. The reality, wher...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2009
• 24min

Vitthal is very angry. Following the death of his grandfather, according to Hindu death rituals, Vitthal’s parents have shaved off his head. For this 12 year old child, his world has shattered.

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2009
• 83min

“The whole story seemed very modern to me. There is a reason Chekhov’s [The Seagull] [has] become the emblem of The Moscow Art Theatre. He has great potential and no matter how many times Chekhov is staged he will never lose his v...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2009
• 100min

Working at a textile factory, Li Li is diagnosed with leukemia, but she and her husband can’t afford her treatment. Upon giving up, she decides to find her first love to feel happiness before she dies. [The Weaving Girl] deals w...