A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2008
• 121min

At the very first glance, this film looks like a typical melodrama; but upon looking closer, it is the story of a woman who comes to collapse with no compassion from the world she lives in. The head of a high school, Phuong, is ma...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy
• 2008
• 105min

As WWII draws to a close, a small Italian town is threatened with German occupation and decides to evacuate. This is a simple story that tracks a group of villagers and their priest, lost in the proverbial wilderness of their own ...

Wide Angle

• China,Thailand,Philippines
• 2008
• 30min

‘Yugong Yishan’ is an old Chinese fable that Chairman Mao used in order to break down imperialism and feudalism. It is also a club where young musicians perform, situated near Beijing. Continuously interweaving the fable, the past...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania
• 2008
• 95min

It’s December 1989, the night before the revolution. A group of soldiers are ordered to patrol the chaotic city. While hesitating with fear to against angry citizen, young Costi run away despite of Lieutenant Neagu’s caution. Cost...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 90min

2008 ACF Post - Production Fund Classmates reunite at the funeral of their history teacher, Sang-tae, and talk about his bizarre life. Their recollections produce another story, and the cycle of the stories reorganizes the relati...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2008
• 115min

After selling the properties from their paretns, Hyung-kuk and Young-ae move into an apartment in a city. Strange things happen around the family as they begin their new life. Their daughter Mi-ae starts to exhibit weird behavior,...

World Cinema

• Armenia
• 2008
• 88min

The biblical parable of the prodigal son is an enduring one. The theme of the lost and misguided child being welcomed back into the arms of the parent has been interpreted in art, music, and literature for hundreds of years. In Az...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 106min

Eon-ju, a private tutor lives in a packed student-apartment. She is sick of poverty and works hard to get her own room. She drops by a realtor’s office as often as possible to see what is there. One day, she witnesses a homeless p...

World Cinema

• Israel,France
• 2008
• 107min

The mourning ritual is like a show. Grief is staged and the mourner expresses his grief before the community. The mourner does not express sorrow in the same way when he or she is alone. You must show your grief to your community ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2008
• 98min

In The Shaft, director Chi Zhang tells a story of a family in a mining town in China. In the mining town where it is hard to follow one’s dreams, a father, daughter, and son each strive to pursue their own. Through several episode...