Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 110min

Working at a transgender bar, Min-a is a female with male genitals. When her colleague is assaulted by a male customer, she steps in to help, only to accidentally kill the assaulter. At the court, Min-a insists that she had no cho...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2014
• 130min

Neung is a fresh arrival at university, studying Sport Science as a major. Studying sports, which she never enjoyed, living far away from home, staying in a dormitory, and making new friends are all a challenge for her. One day, s...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2014
• 111min

Preferring to hide in the safety of his own private world, Nathan finds the comfort and security he needs in numbers and mathematics. Mentored by his unconventional and anarchic teacher, Mr.Humphreys, it becomes clear that Nathan’...

New Currents

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 93min

This film has been compared to Yoon Taeho’s webtoon Incomplete Life in its attention to detail in its description of the workplace. A young man preparing for an exam to work for a broadcasting company starts to work as an intern a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2013
• 156min

A young teacher named Oishi is appointed to a branch school on a remote island. The village elders are scandalized when they see her riding a bicycle to the school dressed in Western-style clothes,but the children adore her. Ms. O...

World Cinema

• Portugal
• 2013
• 62min

Unfolding in the 2000-year-old Portuguese city of Guimaraes, renowned directors, Jean-Luc Godard and Peter Greenaway and the Portuguese experimental author Edgar Pera have produced and combined three cinema episodes. The directors...

• Cannes Film Festival (Critic′s Week - Closing Night)

Special Programs in Focus

• Uzbekistan
• 2013
• 43min

In this comedy, Mahmud gives a ticket to a football match to his neighbor Normat. It just so happens that at the stadium that day is an organized lottery: the owner of this ticket is the winner of new automobile. Normat is absolut...

World Cinema

• Spain
• 2013
• 80min

After a year abroad, Lili joins her eccentric mother on a taxing month-long tour through her family’s history and the landscape of her childhood. Lili is forced to confront her own frustrations and the flaws she inherited while tr...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mongolia
• 2013
• 91min

The youngest son of Badam, a nomad family raising horses in the great plains of Mongolia, comes back home. He was adopted to his uncle when he was three but his uncle passed away. The boy Galt was in deep sorrow but soon had his h...

Open Cinema

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 118min

A Special Crimes Department is created in order to track high-level criminals via sophisticated surveillance techniques. In pursuit of an armed group of elusive bank robbers, the new unit makes the group’s ruthless leader their pr...