World Cinema
BoyhoodFilmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. Starring Ethan Hawke an...
Special Programs in Focus
A Story of Mountainous RachaThis “culture film” directed by the first woman filmmaker of Georgia presents contrasting landscapes of the famous vacation spot surrounding the mountainous Racha region and the struggling life of its residents. When a power plant...
Flash Forward
Gente de BienEric lives with his father, barely making ends meet by doing chores for a rich Maria’s family. Maria suggests that Eric and his father should enjoy the Christmas holidays at her family’s vacation home. They reluctantly accept her ...
World Cinema
The AbsentAn old man lives alone in a shabby cabin in a remote mountainous area of Mexico. His house is set to be demolished in order to facilitate the redevelopment of the area. He doesn’t know how to protect his house. Time goes by and on...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Song of the PhoenixWu Tianming was a leading force in China’s Fourth Generation and an inspiration to the filmmakers of the Fifth Generation. His posthumous Song of Phoenix deals with the conflict between tradition and contemporary values, a consist...
Wide Angle
The Anxious Day OutAfter 10 years on the run and five years in prison, pro-reunification agitator Yun gi-jin is allowed one year of freedom. Barely having enjoyed it, he is again charged with violating the national security law, and awaits new judgm...
Wide Angle
Red ArmyA stubborn-looking middle-aged man is getting ready for an interview. He soon starts speaking frankly to the camera and the director. It’s Slava Fetisov, the legendary hockey hero that brought the gold medal to Soviet Russia and t...
Wide Angle
CollapseAn experimental film that combines the director’s personal life and today’s symptoms of anxiety and fear, Collapse uses that keyword to continually question and rationalize what it means. It is hard to draw a line on the scope of ...
Special Programs in Focus
Black and WhiteAn artist and communist in his 70s, a lawyer who cherishes snails, a tired medical doctor, and a lonely businesswoman are old friends and regulars at the Black & White bar run by Faruk. When they hear that the bar will soon be shu...
World Cinema
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on ExistenceSam and Jonathan are salesmen selling new products resemble a modern Don Quixote and Sancho. Through their journey, the various angles of the human condition with all its humor, tragedy, vulnerability and greatness are highlighted...