A Window on Asian Cinema

• France,Philippines
• 2008
• 94min

The Pineda family is living in an old theater located amongst chaotic side streets and endless dark stairs. The people coming to the humble theater, decorated with women’s nudes and a warning ‘not to evacuate’, are only engrossed ...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2008
• 78min

When a handsome stranger comes into chronically ill Hannah’s tranquil life on the Norfolk coast, he becomes the catalyst for healing her broken family. Director David Rocksavage explains: “I wanted to portray to the audience that ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 80min

2008 AND Fund Project The film is set on the streets of Seoul where the autumn leaves are starting to fall. The camera, which wanders around Saemteo restaurant, stops in front of a young man named Jerry K, an activist named Ahn S...

Flash Forward

• Russia
• 2008
• 100min

The idea for the screenplay grew out of my realization that the individual leads a full-fledged existence so long as he has a connection with the past, which secures his path into the future. The worsening or loss of memory is a p...

Special Programs in Focus

• Singapore
• 2008
• 77min

This animation was produced in Singapore. For Dawan, who is living with her poor but loving family, the best way to escape from rural life is to earn a scholarship and go study in the big city. But her father persuades her to mar...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 96min

After their mother’s funeral, Myung-eun proposes her half sister Myung-ju a trip to where her father lives. Not theirs, but hers. A hard-grained career woman Myung-eun wants to recall the memories of her father and deal with her w...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2008
• 124min

The collaboration between Hitomi Kanehara, a leading and controversial young Japanese writer, and the Japanese play director Yukio Ninagawa made the top news. The original novel, full of body defilation, tattoos, and sadomasochist...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan,France,Germany,Russia
• 2008
• 82min

Set in the steppes of Central Asia, the film is about the solitude and psychological wandering of humans. When Ivan’s son is born with black hair and dark skin, Ivan, who is a Russian, suspects his Kazakh friend Assan. Fifteen yea...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2008
• 122min

To all appearances this is a gangster film. However, this film narrates the human tragedy of a person who is a slave of his cruel fate and can never be freed of it. After spending 3 years locked up for his brother’s crime, Che ret...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2008
• 86min

Sparrow may be a somewhat unexpected film to come from Johnnie To for those who know the director as the mastermind of Hong Kong crime cinema, especially for his bullet-buzzing ballet sequences. The characters in Sparrow have such...