Gala Presentation

• Hong Kong,China
• 2008
• 93min

Director Kar Wai Wong’s 1994 film, Ashes of Time, has been re-edited and digitally re-mastered. It contains various stories centered around ‘Ouyang’, a selfish and cynical merchant who uses assassins to make money without getting ...

Midnight Passion

• Italy
• 2008
• 117min

Lulli is a noted art critic. He is in a relationship with Gloria, the young, beautiful daughter of a dear, deceased friend, but it comes to a quick end when she leaves him for Adrian, a tormented artist still looking for his big b...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2008
• 95min

A cartoon by Chun Gye Young, which was one of the most popular cartoons in the late 1990’s, is made into an animation after 8 years of work. The film’s leading characters, with appearances typical for girls’ cartoons, are already ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 26min

Homosexuals Chang-sik and Sung-tae used to be a couple when they were younger. They happen to run into each other at the Park. They head to motel to talk about their relationship and find closure.

World Cinema

• Spain,Poland
• 2008
• 100min

The central relationship between Marcel and his grandfather Pascual in Freddy Mas Franqueza’s Awaking from a Dream is one that affects Marcel for his entire life. When his mother dumps him in a small Spanish town with his grandfat...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2008
• 88min

Though it starts with a mystery, this film scrutinizes human relationships in the end. The setting is a humble apartment in Manila. The dead body of a four-month-old baby is discovered. Nora, the landlady of the apartment, asks Bo...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2008
• 93min

Ban Geum-ryun is an adaptation of the Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei(The Golden Lotus) which took several years to produce. Due to censorship, this four year project was abridged to ninety minutes, and its original message was drasti...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2008
• 88min

On an island in southern Iran, a boy named Motu lives with his mother and his aphasic sister. His father was lost at sea and his brother-in-law died the day after his wedding; ever since then Motu’s sister has not been able to spe...

World Cinema

• France,Denmark
• 2008
• 90min

Without marginalizing its lasting impact, Juliette Garcias explores the difficult subject of incest. A woman in Burgundy is looking for her lover. When she, and we, finally meets him, we realize he is also her father. This so-cal...

Flash Forward

• Canada
• 2008
• 92min

Our aim was to create a production process that is in harmony with the lives of all the women depicted as well as those creating the film. Our production values reflect the cultural values of the participants, which are anchored i...