A Window on Asian Cinema

• Jordan
• 2008
• 99min

Abu Raed is a sweeper who works at the Amman airport. One day he happens to find a pilot’s cap in a trash can at the airport and puts it on. A child from the village mistakes Abu for a pilot, and thus begins the story of Abu and t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2008
• 106min

Main characters of the Philippines superhero series are usually the lower middle class. They make a bare living and they hope for the better life with their supernatural powers, not just becoming superheroes at a stretch and figh...

Midnight Passion

• Japan
• 2008
• 97min

When Goro briefly appears before Keiko who leads a lonely life as a dubious fortune teller on the streets, Goro seems just like her. In fact, Goro leads a group of con artists. One day, he witnesses a group of men kidnapping a mid...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2008
• 110min

Directed by 4 women, Chants of Lotus is an omnibus film dealing with a doctor contemplating an abortion for a rape victim, sexcrazed teens, a single mother struggling to keep her daughter safe, and a wife who has just lost her hus...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy
• 2008
• 188min

This anthology based on the stories of Sicilian writer Luigi Pirandello?a precursor to Beckett and Ionescu?is as close to genre filmmaking as the Tavianis ever strayed, and a warm, wistful picture of Sicily. The four segments and ...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2008
• 126min

Trudi learns her husband Rudi is terminally ill and decides not to tell him. Instead she convinces him to visit their children in Berlin. Too busy to deal with aged parents, they journey to the Baltic where Trudi unexpectedly dies...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2008
• 122min

This film illustrates an endearing yet shocking rebellion by some fifth grade students. The story begins with Haruna’s pregnancy, and leads the audience into the ‘world of children.’ Meanwhile, the adults cannot understand the chi...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2008
• 74min

In Baranashi, India, where over 150 bodies are cremated everyday, there are seven children who take off the burial clothes from the dead bodies and sell them, sometimes with the bereaved family’s permission but mostly it is done ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Malaysia
• 2008
• 107min

It is interesting to see how Asian countries reinterpret the western superheroes. The reason the Cicakman stands out among Asian superheroes is that this superhero has the ability and power of a lizard, which can be easily found i...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2008
• 86min

Confessional is a film that questions the borderline between truth and lies. However there is a surprising twist at the end. Ryan, who works as a video editing engineer, heads for Cebu island with his girlfriend Monet to participa...