World Cinema

• Argentina,Korea
• 2008
• 113min

Lion’s Den is a film about mothers, love, devotion, and confinement. Julia wakes up in her apartment and discovers the bloodied bodies of two men: Her boyfriend and his lover. Having no recollection of what happened, she goes abou...

World Cinema

• Argentina,the Netherlands,France,Spain,Germany
• 2008
• 84min

Like director Alonso’s Los Muertos, Liverpool is a mostly silent, languid journey of the self. Set on the southernmost tip of Argentina, the film shifts in a career sailor, Farrel, going home after two decades away, to the mountai...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania
• 2008
• 40min

Liviu is having nightmare for weeks. Nothing he can remember when he wakes up but things around look different afterwards. He has been in relationship with his best friend’s fiancee, butnow she is about to move to Italy followed a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2008
• 75min

A taciturn loner, Behrouz, and his fast-talking cousin decide to make some money installing bootleg satellite dishes in private homes. Though a potentially lucrative business, such an activity is very dangerous and very illegal. W...

World Cinema

• Belgium,France,Italy
• 2008
• 105min

As an Albanian immigrant living in Belgium, Lorna is trapped in a static life. Unable to feel completely secure, she is married to a Belgian junkie, Claudy, and falls into a scheme with a local gangster that she hopes will secure ...

Wide Angle

• KOREA
• 2008
• 24min

Min-suk witnessed a friend’s death when he was young. He thinks he may have pushed the friend and tries to recover the truth through hypnotherapy. Then one day, a young woman commits suicide in his house and he gets questioned by ...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2008
• 105min

Very little is truly understood about post-partum depression and the number of women it affects is greatly underestimated. Motherhood is the apex of womanhood, and the shame and bitterness of not responding to the task “properly” ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2008
• 105min

Choi Moon-sun, an artist, saves the flight attendant In-soon from drowning. In-soon falls in love with Moon-sun, but Moon-sun falls in love with his childhood friend Myunghee. An adaptation of Park Gye-ju’s novel, the film shows ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2008
• 124min

`A Korean melodrama classic. With her husband′s help, Oh Sun-young starts working at Han Tae-seok’s tailor shop. Chun-ho, a college student who lives next door, approaches Sun-young and teaches her dancing, infecting her with a We...

Gala Presentation

• United States,Korea
• 2008

Make Yourself at Home is feature debut of the director Sohn Soopum, who was invited to PIFF and Cannes with his short Fish in the Sea Is Not Thirsty in 2000. Make Yourself at Home has been noted since its early production stage st...