A Window on Asian Cinema
The InsultToni is a Lebanese Christian who lives in Beirut, and Yasser is a Palestinian refugee. While Yasser is doing repairs on a building, a minor disagreement with Toni, a resident, escalates into a clash and the two face it off in a co...
Korean Cinema Today
Mermaid UnlimitedYoungju, a professional swimmer with a serious alcohol problem, is fired from her job at the aquarium. Learning that a synchronized swimming coach is needed for a special program on Jeju Island, Youngju goes there. Her new job is ...
World Cinema
ZamaZama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the backwater in which he is stagnating to a better location. He is forced to accept submissively every tas...
Wide Angle
FreewayCabdriver Yeo-jin plans to leave Korea and start a new life with her daughter in China. On departure day, she heads for the airport with her friend Ju-hui when a sudden incident makes a mess of their journey.
Wide Angle
A Free ManKei is a 22-year-old homeless roaming Kyoto with a backpack. Man is about the conflict between dreams and reality. This theme is still special, though, because of the leading character’s special charm and the stereotypical Japanes...
World Cinema
Rise and Fall of a Small Film CompanyGaspar is a director who is preparing his film, making tests, and recruiting for small roles and extras. Meanwhile, Jean, his producer, has great difficulty raising the capital to run his business. Eurydice, his wife, has always d...
Flash Forward
Little CrusaderOne summer day, little Jan, the only descendant of the knight Bo?ek, puts on his child’s armour and runs away from home in search of the Holy Land. Having no idea where he is going, however, he soon loses his way. The anxious fath...
World Cinema
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of ArcJeannette is an eight-year-old girl growing up during the Hundred Years’ War. As she witnesses the injustices committed by English soldiers in France, she recognizes growing anger inside her and turns from a humble shepherd into J...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Dragonfly EyesWith Dragonfly Eyes Chinese artist Xu Bing experiments with the feature-length cinematic format by constructing an entire fictional narrative from actual footage recorded by the plethora of cameras which have come to surround our ...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The General′s MustacheThe film is directed by Lee Seong-gu (The Sun and the Moon, When the Buckwheat Flowers Blossom), with Kim Seungok’s screenplay adapted from a novel by Lee O Young. It is considered a representation of modernism in Korean films of ...