Wide Angle
StairwayEvery year, during the Tomb Sweeping Day, the whole family accompanies the grandmother up 43 flights of stairs to reach grandfather’s grave. This year, the grandmother feels unable to climb the whole stairway. Her grandson, Liu Li...
Flash Forward
The Boss, Anatomy of a CrimeHermogenes is an illiterate man from a rural area. In the city, he struggles to make ends meet working for a butcher’s. One day, his boss suggests that he should serve as the manager of his failing butcher shop. Working in the sma...
Korean Cinema Today
AliveJungchul lives in the mountain village with his sister and the sister’s daughter. He is frustrated as his mentally challenged sister sometimes wanders around the street or severely hurts herself, and a trusted colleague stole all ...
Wide Angle
FlayedA mother goes to a village office to report her son’s accidental death. Advised to bring a death certificate, she visits the hospital again and returns to the office. (NAM Dong-chul)
Wide Angle
We′ll Live!Myung-hoon is weary and exhausted, taking care of his brother who is unconscious after brain surgery. One day, before he takes an exam to become a doctor, he borrows money at high interest to pay the medical bills. (NAM Dong-chul)
World Cinema
Saint LaurentBertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent(2014) is one of the many films that emerged about the world famousfashion desig ner Yves Saint Laurent after his death. But none of the films so comfortably fit the life of Saint Laurent as this on...
World Cinema
Chagall-MalevichLeaving behind the immense success he had in Paris, artist Marc Chagall returns home to Vitebsk. There he falls in love with Bella, gets married and produces copious paintings. After serving as Commissar of Plastic Arts for Vitebs...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Journey to the WestAnother meditative piece of cinema from Tsai Ming-Liang’s, who has been one of the most prominent filmmakers of the new cinema movement in Taiwan since his debut in 1992. The film begins with an extreme close-up of Denis Lavant wh...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Oyster VillageIn a village far away from city life with little communication with the mainland, the women hunt for oysters and abalones, while the men fish at sea. Byul-lae is left alone after both parents die in the water. She believes the sup...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The Teacher′s DiaryOne of the highest grossing domestic films of 2014 in Thailand revolves around a young and bold teacher, Ann, who volunteers to transfer to a remote school after a trifling argument with her principal. Born and raised in the city,...