Korean Cinema Today
The Boys Who Cried Wolf (a.k.a The Shepherd)Theater actor Wanju has an interesting part-time job. He serves as a stand-in boyfriend for single woman and helps unpopular guys find dates. One day, a murder is committed in an alleyway near his house. Wanju isn’t concerned abou...
A Window on Asian Cinema
MotherThis is a story of an old man who tries to protect a train station from the capitalism’s rapaciousness. In the course of his struggle, he makes up with his son, who is obsessed only with achieving financial success. In the desola...
Korean Cinema Today
Girl on the Edge (a.k.a School Girl)Transferred to a new high school, Jinsuk, played by Gong Yeji (known for her roles in Shuttlecock and The Silenced) meets a friendly classmate, Eunyeong. However, Eunyeong doesn’t realize that the reason for the transfer was the r...
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Summer HoursThe mother, with a natural sense of art which is inherited in the family generation after generation, collected artworks and antique furniture all her life. She tries to talk about the artifacts on her 75th birthday to her childre...
Wide Angle
DurgaThis short is about a story of a village artist who paints eyes on idols of the Goddess Durga, and his boundless love for his granddaughter, and his faith. Ultimately, he makes a pivotal choice that justifies his purpose in life n...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Paths of the SoulThis film documents a group of Tibetans who, over the course of a year, make an arduous 2,000km pilgrimage to Lhasa, not by means of any transportation, but by prostrating themselves over and over again the entire length of the jo...
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A ProphetCondemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read nor write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican...
Wide Angle
The AuditionLeonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro are asked by Martin Scorsese to come to Macau for an audition for his new film. What these two actors don’t know is that they have to compete each other for the role.
A Window on Asian Cinema
Orange CandyAt times amusing but also somber, Orange Candy is an examination of the complexities related to the widening gap between generations, the breakdown of family relations, confrontation and coexistence, and even love and marriage. Th...
Wide Angle
DishonorOut of other options, a teacher decides to drive himself and two students to the school field trip by bus. On the way there, a passing car gets into a serious accident inside a tunnel, but the testimonies by the teacher and the st...