World Cinema
FreeheldFreeheldtells the story of fearless Police Detective Laurel Hester. Laurel falls in love with a younger, openly gay, car mechanic, Stacie Andree, who urges Laurel to be open about their relationship. Laurel finds the domestic happ...
Flash Forward
The Automatic HateWhen an alluring young woman named Alexis Green appears on Davis Green’s doorstep one night claiming to be his long-lost first cousin, Davis is at first skeptical that she’s telling the truth. But after secretly doing some investi...
Korean Cinema Today
Love and...This is a film of four parts: “Chapter 1: Love” sees an old man in a psychiatric hospital brandishes a knife and chases a terrified cleaner. He then explains it was a joke and gives the knife to her, telling her to chase him. Thes...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Pink and GrayRengo Shiraki, a popular movie star, is found dead?along with a suicide note?by his best friend, Daiki Kawada, a struggling actor who dreams of achieving the fame and fortune Rengo has enjoyed. The suicide note prompts Daiki to wr...
Special Programs in Focus
The HousemaidMade around the same time as Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom and Hitchcock’s Psycho, Kim Ki-young’s weird classic has a mood and neo-gothic visual stylings to rival either of them. It has roots in sociological observation ? the migra...
World Cinema
The High SunIn 1991, Serbian Jelena and Croatian Ivan are lovers who plan to run away to Zagreb together, but an unforeseen event stops them and Ivan is killed. Ten years on, Natasha and her mother return to their village, devastated by the w...
A Window on Asian Cinema
UndertoneBack home after years in prison, Lao Zhao finds it difficult to readjust to life on the outside. His wife, Siu Chin, has been having an affair with Lao Ma, a police officer who has been taking care of her while Lao Zhao was away. ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Journey to the ShoreSince her husband Yusuke disappeared three years ago, Mizuki has led a lonely life, teaching piano to others in her community. That is until the day he reappears, telling her that he has been dead the entire time and asking her to...
Flash Forward
Highway to HellasThe life of Jorg Geissner, a German banker, totally transforms with a visit to Paladiki Island, Greece. A business trip to check on a project called “Galapagos in Greece” by the islanders and for which his bank extended a loan and...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The Cash Is MineA young gangster, Yeongjun, is ordered by his boss to kill an old man who has betrayed their syndicate. The dying man tells Yeongjun of his wish to send his daughter, Eunju, to Hong Kong. Feeling guilty about the murder, Yeongjun ...