A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2008
• 114min

Seventeen-year-old boys Huda, Rian and Syahid are students of a pesantren (Islamic religious school). With their graduation a month ahead, they grow up and solve their lifetime problems. Huda locates his mother who abandoned him o...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 43min

The documentary is about the life of a pharmacist who works in the country, the reality of the agricultural district, and also the thoughts of the director behind the camera. The director, who had started this project to look back...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,Japan,Brazil,France
• 2008
• 100min

Like Hong Kong in Love Will Tear Us Apart (1999) or the dystopian city in All Tomorrow’s Parties (2003), Likwai Yu focuses on another city to offer another look into the lives of fragile drifters. This time, they are in Liberdade ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 23min

Jung-yeon plans to quit school and go to Iraq. Penniless and jobless Jung-min admits he is a gay. Sergey is an illegal immigrant worker. Despite his Asian appearance, Jim is from France. Despite their differences in nationality, l...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 127min

A police officer of 15 years, Kang Chul-joong hands in his resignation in disgust. However, his resignation is delayed due to a murder case at a high school. He starts to go after Lee Won-sool, the CEO of Kuh-sung Corp. During the...

Open Cinema

• Thailand
• 2008
• 137min

This is a new work of Nonzee Nimibutr, who has been successful at making blockbuster films that are both local and global at the same time. Four hundred years ago, the Kingdom of Langkasuka is threatened by rebels led by Prince Ra...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 61min

Rain seeks the metaphysical meaning of rain. The film interweaves the scenery before/after rain with interviews on memories related to rain. The interviewees tell their feelings and experiences earnestly, seriously, and even with ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Pakistan,United States
• 2008
• 105min

The film is based on a true story of a father and son’s accidental crossing of the Pakistan-Indian border at a time of war and the wife/mother who waits for their return. The power of a true story is strong. The family is forced t...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2008
• 102min

One of America’s controversial comedians, Bill Maher travels around the globe to talk about one thing that he has always questioned himself; existence of God. He visits from a small church in America to a mosque to deliver what he...

World Cinema

• Netherlands
• 2008
• 86min

Ever since Emile Zola wrote his accusatory open letter to the French president regarding the Dreyfus Affair, “J’accuse!” has been shorthand for outrage, specifically toward the powerful. Peter Greenaway, whose Nightwatching told t...