Midnight Passion

• Japan
• 2008
• 102min

The whole thing started out as a prank. Yukie and her friends lock their classmate, Kikukawa in an equipment room in the gym, to scare her. Though they let her out in the end, Kikukawa stopped coming to school the following day. Y...

World Cinema

• Croatia
• 2008
• 100min

Former rock star Ivan is a miserable ex-soldier that lost both legs in the Croatian War of Independence. He lost his wife and his future is uncertain. When his father Izidor runs for public office he attracts the attention of Simo...

Open Cinema

• Austria,Germany,Czech Republic
• 2008
• 126min

In the summer of 1936, two German climbers make plans to become the first to scale Eiger’s notorious North Face. The “Nordwand” has long been considered the most challenging of climbs in the Alps, and the tragic true story that wa...

World Cinema

• France,Chile
• 2008
• 87min

Based on a story by Honore de Balzac, the esoteric and prolific Raoul Ruiz turns his camera to genre filmmaking with his latest, a horror film about an old house and its former occupants. In the late 1930s, William James, a wealth...

World Cinema

• Norway,Germany
• 2008
• 90min

The one constant in Horten’s life is his train route, a route he has been driving for forty years. When the day comes for him to retire, he is at a loss as to how to live in the aftermath. With the same kind of subtle humor and wa...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania
• 2008
• 100min

A comic satire by Romanian helmer Cristian Mungiu: the story unfolds intertwined stories of three people: Luci, Sorina and Michaela. Luci and Sorina are young couple bankrupt with nowhere to stay but dusty street. Struggling with ...

New Currents

• India
• 2008
• 82min

After the tragedy of the tsunami, which hit southeast and west Asia in 2004, there have been a lot of films (especially documentaries) that have dealt with the physical damage the tsunami left behind. Four years later, films are n...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2008
• 74min

Called a “visual poem” by director Terence Davies, Of Time and the City is both ode and elegy to Liverpool, the filmmaker’s hometown. The film is perhaps an exemplar of “docudrama,” as Davies has meticulously cut together his foot...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 98min

A rock band singer Hyun-seok meets with a terrible accident one day. A problem with his hearing develops and hinders his studio recordings. In a deep despair, Hyun-seok retreats to a lodging house in Hokkaido, Japan. The hostess o...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 73min

The Daechuri Village incident, which was once the talk of the town, is being forgotten, but this documentary takes the viewer to the scene of action. Through the timeline of the event, the viewer understands why the inhabitants we...