World Cinema

• Germany
• 2008
• 93min

Finding a home is something that interests me, and people who manage to get their way against all odds too. Everywhere they turn, they are confronted with defeat, but nevertheless they forge on. Often these “home-builders” are wit...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Netherlands,Indonesia,Germany,Switzerland
• 2008
• 90min

After her mother’s death, Jaya visits his father. His father, who did not even know of Jaya’s existence, rejects him. Rather, he rejects his entire past. Young Jaya realizes that he cannot expect anything from his father and becom...

World Cinema

• France
• 2008
• 95min

War creates a state of no-rights which allows for all kinds of impunity and madness. It normalizes death, standardizes barbarity, maintains fear and phantasmagoria, brings back to life-old demons, overturns morality and humanity. ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2008
• 117min

The film follows a father’s simple dream of wanting to drape his daughter in a silk sari. In the late 1940’s, Kanchivaram is a town in Tamil Nadu known for its fine silk saris. Its best silk weaver, Vengadam, promises to make a si...

Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 2008
• 175min

A Bollywood-style superhero film. The concept of a superhero never deviates too much from its original Hollywood incarnation; look at Superman as an example. Rakesh Roshan also adds the unusual elements of Bollywood cinema and Hon...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2008
• 87min

Lake Mungo combines grief, hidden lives, and the need for closure in a story that melds mystery, drama, documentary, and a dash of Blair Witch Project-style ghost tale. A family in a small town loses sixteen-year-old Alice in an a...

New Currents

• Korea,France
• 2008
• 88min

[2008 ACF Post - Production Fund] Director Roh Gyeong-tae tends not to craft the story in a way that helps audiences understand the whole picture at once, but rather does it so the audience can take their time to see the connecti...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2008
• 122min

The common distinction between superheroes of the Philippines is that they happen to posse abilities to transform as superheroes. They were not born as superheroes or came from outer space, but accidentally found some certain obje...

Flash Forward

• the Netherlands
• 2008
• 83min

If you could only use one side of your brain, how would reality be altered?if at all? That is the central dilemma for Dexter, a young man with a seemingly mounting mass of problems that is explained when he’s told he’s had a strok...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 75min

This film is an adaptation of a novel by Yanbian authors, Liang Chun-sik and Kim Nam-hyun. It describes the romantic stories of seventeen-year-old boys and girls, which can be applied to the general young generation of Yanbian the...