Wide Angle
StrangerA girl is painting on a wall. A man, whom she has never met before, comes up to her and asks: “Will you come with me for a moment?” Thinking that she is not supposed to follow a stranger, she hesitates, wondering whether she has t...
World Cinema
Steel CountryWhen a young boy turns up dead in a sleepy western Pennsylvania town, a local truck driver with Asperger′s Syndrome, Donald, takes it upon himself to play detective, embarking on an obsessive investigation in order to prove that t...
A Window on Asian Cinema
CITIZEN JAKEThis is the first film by director Mike De Leon, who has been working since the 1970s and has released numerous controversial works, in 18 years. As Francis Joseph A. Cruz mentioned, apart from the fact that “The most obvious thin...
Flash Forward
SibelThe film Sibel shows male-centered values dominating a community and woman’s dependency on gender roles. However, the seemingly extreme values of confrontation between the two genders are given a multi-layered, three-dimensional f...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
God′s Eye ViewLee Jang-ho released the feature film, God’s Eye View (2013), 18 years after his feature film, Declaration of Genius (1995). A missionary group comprised of a church minister, a missionary, and a church elder is kidnapped by the I...
World Cinema
The Sisters BrothersBrothers Charlie and Eli Sisters set off for the west, San Francisco with Det. John Morris, the three partnering to catch a wanted man, Hermann Warm. Unlike the rash, violent, troublemaker Charlie, the older Eli, tired of working ...
Wide Angle
Chasing PaperA high school student is at her most sensitive because of her grades. Her mother suddenly loses her job, and finds work as a janitor at her high school. Things become increasingly awkward between the two. To restore their relation...
Korean Cinema Today
Along with the Gods: The Last 49 DaysAlong with the Gods: The Last 49 Days is the second installment of the film series based on the eponymous webtoon. After his death in part one, Soo-hong is declared as the 49th noble man and grim reaper Gang-rim is called to trial...
Wide Angle
Land from GodBoracay Island, Philippines, is known as the most beautiful island in the world. Although it is a tourist destination loved by people all over the world, the Ati, the indigenes who have lived on the island for a long time are bein...
Special Programs in Focus
Three Godless YearsA Filipino-Japanese soldier falls in love with a Filipina during World War II. The war shatters the idyllic life of Rosario, a schoolteacher. Captain Masugi, a Philippine-born Japanese, chances upon Rosario’s house. Having too muc...