Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 74min

The Taebaek region is going through many changes. The ruin of the region after the shutdown of the mine is veiled from prosperity due to the widespread casino business. The lives of the people who cannot leave this place continue ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2008
• 105min

It is the story of Tahaan, an eight-year-old boy who takes a long and risky journey to find his best friend and also an important asset to his family, their donkey, Birbal. The director, Santosh Sivan, criticizes the world of adul...

Midnight Passion

• Denmark
• 2008
• 95min

Robert, a cop who has been transferred to a small borderland town in Southern Jutland after having a nervous breakdown. Determined to bury the past, the job as substitute marshall is a necessary weigh station on his way back to ci...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2008
• 89min

Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Kurt Cobain are members of an elite, tragic club that rock band front man Tom has joined. “The 27 Club” is a group of musicians that died at 27. With Tom dead and gone, his best friend...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2008
• 100min

If you want to explain the teachings and history of a religion to children, animation can be a perfect tool. The Buddha follows the hardships of Buddha. In this animation, a bright prince Siddhartha who was good at military art gi...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 124min

Ex-detective Joong-ho operates a massage parlor. Some time ago, the girls working for him started to disappear one by one. Following the trail of Mi-jin, one of those girls, Joong-ho succeeds in capturing the suspect Young-min. Ho...

Open Cinema

• France
• 2008
• 120min

Based on the book by Francois Begaudeau, The Class is about a teacher(Begaudeau) attempting to do his job in Paris’ 20th arrondissement, the traditional home to people from all corners of the globe. Comparisons to Dangerous Minds ...

World Cinema

• Lithuania
• 2008
• 84min

In the aftermath of her father’s traumatizing death, Gaile, a children’s speech therapist, finds herself unable to feel any kind of emotion. But when a series of videotaped events-increasingly aggressive and hideous-stoke dormant ...

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2008
• 74min

An orchestra conductor who presents classical music, a conductor of a university choir of five thousand people, and a cheerleader who can lead fifty thousand soccer fans. Although they work in different fields, they are passionate...

Wide Angle

• Thailand
• 2008
• 83min

June, a carefree Thai woman, converts to Islam in order to marry Ake, a Muslim. Although it is not an easy decision, she submerges herself in her new life. How will June adapt? The documentary tracks the journey of June with an an...