World Cinema
Crossing the LineIn 1962, a US soldier sent to guard the peace in South Korea undertook an extraordinary journey. At the height of the Cold War, he deserted his unit, walked across the most heavily fortified area on earth and defected to an alien ...
Korean Cinema Today
Cruel Winter BluesJae-moon and Min-jae have been friends since juvenile reformatory, and entered into the gang world together. When they killed a person by mistake, Min-jae was murdered by Dae-shik. For vengeance, Jae-moon goes to Dae-shik`s hometo...
Wide Angle
Daechoori WarEver since the process of the expansion project of the U.S Forces Korea in Pyeongtaek began, local farmers in Pangsung Village have held a candlelight vigil everyday. The atmosphere of the village has been panic-striken since the ...
Korean Cinema Today
Dasaepo Naughty GirlSet in Musseulmo (means "of no use") High-school, the ivy league of sexual pleasure, where the president and vice-president of the student`s association are an officially recognized S&M couple, and the teachers and students alike ...
World Cinema
Days of GloryIn 1943, at the peak of WWII, Said ? from the Algerian countryside ? enlists to fight for France, the mother nation that he has never seen. At training camp, he meets other Maghreb `brothers` including Messaoud, Abdelkader and Yas...
Special Programs in Focus
DementedMartin, an 11-year-old boy, lives in a rural French village with his disturbed family. His sick mother prefers stays in her own room avoiding her sons, and his brother falls into an alcoholic tailspin. Martin`s father, still under...
World Cinema
Destiny[Destiny] explores the role of religion in our lives as it draws an allegory for the foreign exploitation of Latin America. In an Argentine/Bolivian border town, a community earns a meager living by making ceramics. Using the bone...
New Currents
DistanceDirector Wei Tie conveys the sharp disjuncture that lies between reality and dreams in contemporary China by charting Zhu Ming′s migration from the countryside to the city and his efforts to get a job. Through a style that is clos...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Do OverThis is all about dreams. Everyone wishes for happiness and has a new dream with which to greet the New Year. Will these dreams come true every time? In [Do Over], director Cheng Yu-Chieh tries to l us that human beings will keep ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Dog Days DreamThis is a story about a woman living with her childish husband, or a story about a thoughtless husband becoming a new man. Either way it`s an interesting comedy by Ichii Masahide that recalls the work of Yamashita Nobuhiro. The h...