Wide Angle
The Song of GrassrootsWiji Thukul is a representative poet and human rights activist in Indonesia. At the end of Suharto′s regime in 1997-1998, numerous democratic fighters were killed or missing by the Suharto regime during a fierce democratic movemen...
Korean Cinema Today
GrassA young couple is discussing suicide of a friend in a cafe with classical music in the background. The girl blames the man for the death of friend and he denies it. A woman in the corner is writing stories she overhears in the caf...
Flash Forward
The AccusedLife turns upside down for ordinary middle-class girl Dolores when she is charged with the brutal murder of her best friend Camila. The film begins two years after Dolores is charged, with a scene of her family as they prepare for...
World Cinema
Sew the Winter to My SkinIn 1952, John Kepe is sentenced to death by hanging in a South African court. On the same screen, villagers protest the sentence while war hero and landowner Botha?who arrested him?is cheered by whites. The scene where privileged ...
Special Programs in Focus
A Portrait of the Artist as FilipinoUnder 1940s American colonial rule, the Philippines’ complex upper class, embodied by a painter and his daughters, tries to hold on to its elite past in the face of war, and attempts to reconcile outdated traditions with modern va...
World Cinema
High LifeOn an isolated spaceship, everything is artificial and controlled of human desires. A doctor’s past wounds force her to obsess over children, successfully artificially inseminating passengers who are prisoners abandoned on earth. ...
Midnight Passion
HalloweenOn Halloween night in 1978, escaped psychopath Michael Myers visited the people of Haddonfield, Illinois, and went on a killing spree, brutally murdering five people. Only one of Michael Myers’ intended victims escaped that night:...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Cities of Last ThingsThe film explores three special nights in detective Chang’s life, going back in time from the near future to present and past. One night in the near future, a middle-aged detective Chang makes an extreme decision when he finds out...
World Cinema
Happy as LazzaroInfiorata, a beautiful country village where it seems time has stopped. Lazzaro is an innocent young man who works with his neighbors on a tobacco farm for the marquise, the queen of cigarettes. Lazzaro′s best friend is a young no...
Korean Cinema Today
HerstoryJungsook is the owner of a travel agency and a workaholic who hates to lose. When her business is suspended because of one of her employees, Jungsook halfheartedly opens a call center for comfort women at the suggestion of the Bus...