Wide Angle

• Philippines,United States
• 2008
• 17min

In a dirty, decaying slum in the Philippines, a single mother decides to give her 10-year-old son up for adoption so that he can have a better life. But an innocent journey to the market quickly turns into a devastating loss for b...

World Cinema

• France,Belgium
• 2008
• 122min

There, free women are inventing every day a profession they have chosen, which consists in listening to other women wrestling with their freedom to love and have children now, one of these days, or never... We are between walls th...

Open Cinema

• Italy
• 2008
• 135min

It is hard, after 100 years of cinema, to reinvent the Mafia film. In Gamorrah director Matteo Garrone tries to do just that. One part melodrama and one part existential meditation, the film was based on the nonfiction bestseller ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan,Korea
• 2008
• 116min

The new film by Isshin Inudou, director of Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish(2003) and La Maison de Himiko(2005), captures the life and romance of Asako, a single comic artist in her forties, narrated in her apprentice Naomi’s point ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy,France,United States
• 2008
• 117min

The Tavianis first English-language film is an ode to filmmaking and the Italian masters. After losing the family business, two brothers head to Hollywood to strike it rich, and wind up working on D.W. Griffiths’ landmark Intolera...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2008
• 102min

After sweet collaborations with a synchronized swimming team in Water Boys and a high school big jazz band in Swing Girls, director Shinobu Yaguchi returns with his own characteristic wit, humor and lovely composition once more. T...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2008
• 118min

Frothy”, “optimistic”, and “light” are not qualities often associated with the cinema of Mike Leigh. But in taking a step away from class issues, social realism, and injustice Leigh demonstrates a deft hand with what amounts to ro...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 99min

A librarian Eun-soo catches Jun-oh damaging some books. The target of the vandalism is page 198 of a certain book. Peaked with curiosity, Eun-soo tries to help Jun-oh, who says his ex-girlfriend left a message on page 198 of a boo...

World Cinema

• Ireland,UK
• 2008
• 79min

Complexity exists in all of us but so often teenagers are not seen or portrayed in such a way. Given her personal history she is also intensely private. We rarely see her emoting or showing how she really feels. This emotional res...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 95min

2007 ACF Script Development Fund Choi arrives in Jharkot, Nepal. In his arms, he has an urn that contains ashes of a Nepalese factory worker Dorje, who was killed in an accident. The bereaved family awaits the arrival of the urn....