A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia
• 2008
• 87min

Sisters Ani and Ana escape from their violent father after their beloved mother dies. They love each other in their Islamic belief. One day, Ana gets beaten by a teacher on account of a trifling matter. A Catholic teacher named Br...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2008
• 84min

At a cattle fair in Bihar, India, fifty young and beautiful women perform every night. The majority of the audience is men. The women’s dance presents a sexual fantasy to its viewers, but to the dancers, the dance is just a job th...

World Cinema

• Mexico
• 2008
• 112min

In the endless quest for redemption that is really the inability of Elias’ character to forgive others and himself, religious guilt is shown to be the detonator of obsession and madness. And in the damage done to this family micro...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy,France
• 2008
• 98min

Four people?Edoardo, Carlotta, Ottone, and Ottilia?staying in an early twentieth century Tuscan villa are confronted by strong emotions and questions about themselves. A year into a marriage that happened after a twenty-year separ...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2008
• 10min

People get in an elevator. The elevator passes the floors one by one, but the passengers’ final destination is always the same.

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2008
• 37min

A blind boy is trapped in darkness but discovers music, which opens his eyes and allows him to leave his closeted space and go out into the world.

Midnight Passion

• UK,Ireland
• 2008
• 103min

Frank is in prison for the rest of his life. He’s never had never problem with that. Until now. He receives the letter telling him that his only and much loved daughter is critically ill following an overdose. He must see her and ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2008
• 104min

Similar to Madame Freedom, The Female Boss portrays the new Korean lifestyle of that time. Yohanna, a female CEO, is a single woman who is faithful to her desires. She coincidentally meets Yong-ho at a telephone booth and their de...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania,Germany
• 2008
• 87min

Part documentary, part drama, Ciulei’s The Flower Bridge is a moving and enlightening portrait of a nation dealing with a rash of fracturing families that have nothing to do with divorce or death. In Moldavia, over half the labor ...

Opening Film

• Russia,Kazakhstan,Israel,Poland
• 2008
• 97min

This is a story of a man who survived from gruesome dark ages. Only thing he has left is the memories of his childhood. The director with future, Rustem Abdrashev and Kazakhstani outstanding actor, Nurzhuman Ikhtimbaev and Russia’...