A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2008
• 82min

n the opening credits, a drunken man appears. He repeatedly shouts ‘another drink’, finally biting the glass when the bartender refuses to give him another drink. This man is Francis Bosco, a deteriorated magician. He has a ten-ye...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2008
• 10min

The public toilet can be a potential site of contagion and contamination. So what better setting could there be for a love story that takes place during Singapore′s SARS crisis?

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2008
• 98min

A film about the judo sisters and their men. Yoo Ahn Soon-ae, who learned judo from her father, has never had a boyfriend. With help from her younger sister Sun-hee, she meets Na Joo-oh, but continues to be untamable after their m...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2008
• 95min

Nak is an attempt to establish an original animation of Thailand that differs from the Disney prototype. Based on the original concept about life after death in Thailand, cheerful ghost incidences are displayed with remarkable fe...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2008
• 88min

‘Women are strong’. This is the main point that director Masahide Ichii wanted to say in his female version of the buddy film, Naked of Defenses. By portraying the story of two women, the director tried to find out where the origi...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 31min

2008 Busan HD Project Hyun-jung, a is divorced woman. One day, her ex-husband, who has custody of their daughter, asks her to help Natasha, a blond Uzbekistan woman who knows very little about Korean culture and traditions, to p...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan,Russia
• 2008
• 87min

This film is set in a little town in Kazakhstan. Addai, a shaman, is treated as a local authority; she helps find missing people, heal illnesses, and punish anyone who commits wrongdoings. A conflict arises when foreign investors ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 145min

Day and Night is director Hong Sangsoo’s eighth film. Though his films appear to have similar storylines, there is a delicate difference in each of them making it the director’s unique trademark. This time, the story takes place i...

World Cinema

• Czech Republic
• 2008
• 80min

Trapped between moving forward and continuing her studies and thus jumpstarting her adulthood and remaining safe and secure in her childhood, Ofka is feeling smothered. She works at a convenience store on the night shift, and live...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy,France,Germany
• 2008
• 112min

Tolstoy’s father Sergius is the basis for the Tavianis exploration of one man’s spiritual journey and quest for self, set against an epic period backdrop. His lifelong ambition to serve his beloved king is poised to be realized wh...