Flash Forward
The RingThe Ring is a coming-of-age drama where 12-year-old Jessy sees his destiny and vows to fight it. Weighing down on Jessy is his brother’s life as a drug trafficker, his sister’s uncomfortable, burgeoning sexuality, a runaway junkie...
World Cinema
The Rules of LiesThemes of trust and betrayal inform this drama about 12 recovering drug addicts in a remote farmhouse. An aura of suspicion and lies hangs over the characters, with Roman, Milan, and Tom at the center of the storm. When Roman chec...
Wide Angle
The Secret in the SatchelA precious talent in Taiwanese cinema, Tay-jou LIN, directs a documentary about the agony and confusion of his young students. Having been a teacher at college for the last decade, LIN has selected three stories by his students an...
Wide Angle
The Secret in the WindHide-and-seek is Chia’s favorite game. Her dad promises to buy her a goldfish if she wins the game.
Korean Cinema Today
The Show Must Go OnKANG In-goo is the man of the family living busy routines as any other Korean men. His job isn’t so usual that he is a middle boss of a gangster organization. His life is constant conflict at home and at work. He comes to collisio...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The Sun Also RisesLife is full of riddles we cannot solve. Movies, at times, give us a better understanding of life by showing causal relations in life that are unknown to the characters - from an omniscient point of view. The Sun Also Rises unfold...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The UnseeableWith his feature debut, Tears of the Black Tiger, rising Thai director Wisit Sasanatieng was said to have created the "Tom yam gung Western". His next film, Citizen Dog, displayed a buoyant and fanciful imagination. With these two...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The Wedding DayThe film is an adaptation of the play A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng written by O Yeong-jin. It is also the first Korean film to win an award at an international film festival. Local officer Maeng is excited about his glorious future...
World Cinema
The Yellow House“I myself also had to take my father’s remains from France to his native village in the Aures. During those few days… I was sustained by the compassion and helping hands of strangers. I loved those men and women, who, when all is ...
World Cinema
These Earthly Days Go Rolling ByIn the late 1970s, Goran Paskaljevic carried on the trends defined by the so-called Czech School active in Yugoslavia at the time. With auteur cinema becoming firmly entrenched, Paskaljevic was among the first to champion control ...