Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2009
• 70min

Mr. and Mrs. Hwang start arguing about a wedding anniversary event due to differences of opinion. Mr. Hwang jokingly says he wants to go on a trip to Yang-pyong, while Mrs. Hwang wants anniversary presents from their children. Thr...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 110min

E-nam, Sam-nam, and Cho-rong live with their father in a slum that is soon to be demolished. The oldest son Il-nam is paid off by the gang that wants to develop the area and tries to convince his father to leave, but his father lo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2009
• 104min

Skinny as a reed and with tousled hair, teenager Ryo Kawai feels like he’s at the edge of a cliff. He lives alone in a house with no electricity, water or gas, and has just been fired from his work. He can’t go to school because h...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2009
• 108min

Even without a keen knowledge of the German film industry, the subtle wit and delicate satire of Andreas Dresen’s tale of an alcoholic actor working extra hard for his pay check when a producer double casts his role will be instan...

World Cinema

• France
• 2009
• 100min

[Chocolat] catapulted Claire Denis onto the world cinema stage, a film about a young woman recalling her coming-of-age in Africa. With [White Material], Denis returns to the land of her childhood, this time tackling much tougher l...

Wide Angle

• Italy,Switzerland
• 2009
• 90min

In northeast Italy is the Tagliamento River, tucked away almost like a secret spot on the border between Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. This documentary is a poem to that river and the people of the region: spirited, storied, a...

World Cinema

• Belgium,Austria,France
• 2009
• 90min

After the rainy season every year, females in Niger, south of the Sahara desert, start a difficult journey to cross the desert with camels. Admiration of the civilized world, hope for self-accomplishment as a woman, and other desi...

World Cinema

• Netherlands,Belgium
• 2009
• 104min

In the last winter of World War Ⅱ, fourteen-year-old Michiel is forced to become a resistance fighter when he nurses British pilot from a crashed fighter back to health and hides him from the Germans. Caught between the father he ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 110min

Enrolling into a commercial high school in Busan, Jjang-gu joins a school gangster club called ‘Monster’. It wasn’t something he volunteered for; rather, it was natural to join such a club at that time. Like a rite of passage, he ...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2009
• 20min

Setareh waits for her husband Habib to return from sea. He arrives and the night ends romantically. In the morning he is gone. She goes to her mother-in-law′s house and finds his corpse, but then goes to the harbor and finds him t...