Flash Forward

• Bulgaria
• 2008
• 103min

Two couples, two houses, one new subdivision. The fortysomething newcomers are greeted as unwelcome interlopers by the established neighborhood or prefab homes, and are soon subjected to a vigorous and calculated game of misunders...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania,France
• 2008
• 84min

Mihai and Miha picnic to riverside on a sunny day. While in the midst of constant quarrel, they accidentally hit Ana-Violeta, a young prostitute. She joined the picnic and revealed the pain and truth between the two lovers. Hooked...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 90min

The wife is an undercover agent who handles top national secrets. She has an affair with a man she meets on a business trip. She refers to her poet husband as an alien. The husband also starts to talk to a woman he meets in the ba...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 22min

Chinese students Deungho and Li-wonwon make the best of their lives in Korea despite the ignorant stereotypes of the people around them. Life is difficult but things would not be better for them in China, so they must endure the p...

Flash Forward

• UK
• 2008
• 96min

Hunger for me has contemporary resonance. The body as site of political warfare is becoming a more familiar phenomenon. It is the final act of desperation; your own body is your last resource for protest. One uses what one has, ri...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 18min

A foreign backpacker meets a truck driver while hitchhiking. The driver drinks water non-stop and collects his urine in plastic bottles to substitute for gas. The backpacker and the truck driver’s peculiar meeting on a desolate We...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2008
• 94min

Myungho, a son from a poor family, meets Bunam, his classmate. Both Myungho and Bunam have been sick; for Myungho, it was because of lack of nutrition; for Bunam, it was because of overeating. The doctor suggests them to switch th...

Closing Film

• Korea
• 2008
• 113min

After his scandalous films, Yoon Jong-chan came back with another story aboutwounded souls. The director used a horror plot in his outstanding debut Sorum todescribe the mentality of people who have been hurt, and in his second fi...

Wide Angle

• Slovenia,Hungary
• 2008
• 7min

The subject of I Know is watching. As a man completes a masterpiece a woman and a boy watch him, and God watches all three. Silence reigns as the camera illuminates the emotions of the three and demands viewers find their own sign...

Special Programs in Focus

• JAPAN
• 2008
• 103min

Japan is the most active among Asian countries in animation. The influence of Japanimation on Asia’s animation industry cannot be denied. Japanese animation’s imagination and variety of subjects and genres often deal with the coll...