World Cinema

• United States,Canada
• 2008
• 94min

The funeral as a moment of reconciliation and revelation is a common theme in cinema, an accessible and enlightening way to explore ethnicity and tradition. Sitting Shiva and Irish wakes are regular features in films centered on t...

World Cinema

• Australia,SouthAfrica
• 2008
• 120min

Nobel and Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee’s spare and searing Disgrace has been hailed as one of the defining works of post-apartheid South Africa, one that encapsulates the guilt, rage, hope, and confusion wrought by sudden soc...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2008
• 75min

The outside world doesn’t exist, all that exists is inside the ward of a hospital for terminally ill patients; The camera is patiently recording an old man, whose life activities can only be carried out in his bed. He constantly c...

Wide Angle

• Netherlands
• 2008
• 9min

A young girl escapes the horrors of war by climbing into her own internal fantasy world where she is able to experience unfettered happiness. A surreal and poetic film about survival and defiance starring Sylvia Hoeks ([Duska]).

New Currents

• Iran
• 2008
• 100min

This film employs an impressive technique to blur reality and fiction. The method of narration that delivers the theme ‘God’s will’ and ‘the fate of human beings’ is very extraordinary. The film consists of three major episodes. O...

New Currents

• China
• 2008
• 150min

The film strictly follows Er Dong’s daily routine excluding any exceptional techniques or mechanism. Er Dong’s mother sends her troublesome son to a Christian missionary school. There he meets Chang’e and they leave school to live...

Wide Angle

• Malaysia
• 2008
• 26min

Nine-year-old Xiao Jiang lives with his grandfather on a rubber estate. His older sister,who works in the city, promises to take Xiao Jiang to the zoo to see the newborn tiger cubs. But the next morning when he wakes up, she has ...

World Cinema

• Sweden,Denmark,Finland,Norway
• 2008
• 111min

In Sweden in the early 1900s, in a time of social change and poverty, the young working class woman Maria wins a camera in a lottery. The camera enables Maria to see the world through new eyes, but it also becomes a threat to her ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 110min

This film is a horror chronicle adapted from Russian author Gogol’s VIY. A witch has never surfaced in Korean culture; it was only an existence in imaginations through western novels. The director Park Jin Sung recalls this memory...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 117min

There is a girl near the factories. A man discovers her, feeds her, and turns her into a prostitute. A woman appears and becomes very close friends with the girl. However, their friendship does not last long. The girl goes back to...