Wide Angle
Distant LightA conservative father and a quiet son have an awkward relationship. To his father’s typical homily on hard study, the son responds inattentively. Eager to get attention, the son finds pleasure in showing his naked body on the inte...
Flash Forward
MetalheadAfter Hera witnesses her brother’s absurdly crazy death in the fields, she begins to hate god who took him from her, and finds solace in her brother’s beloved heavy metal music. She announces that she will leave town to become a r...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Tamako in MoratoriumIn My Back Page (2011) and The Drudgery Train (2012), Yamashita Nobuhiro expanded his views on his specialty genre, the youth film or coming of age drama. At the same time, he expressed his hope of returning to small and simple fi...
Korean Cinema Today
MotKyung-mi and Gun-woo end up in a motorcycle crash during the course of an outdoor birthday party. Sungpil goes wild at his sister lying dead on the street and beats Gun-woo to a pulp. Years later, Hyun-myung, who was also at the s...
Korean Cinema Today
MoebiusWhen her husband cheats on her, a woman cuts off her son’s penis. The boy becomes a laughingstock among his friends and his father researches ways to restore his genitals. When the boy is arrested with his friends for rape, father...
Korean Cinema Today
Genome HazardBased on a Japanese sci-fi novel, Nishijima Hidetoshi stars in this film by Kim Sungsu, a joint Korea-Japan production. A man is confused after seeing his wife’s corpse at home and later also receiving a phone call from her?giving...
Wide Angle
The Child who Draws an OctopusA parentless little girl is drawing. She draws an octopus instead of a family, but can’t color it in as she has no crayons. A kindly janitor gives her some crayons and fills in by making her lunch. He becomes the subject of her dr...
World Cinema
Stand Clear of the Closing DoorsSrand Clear of the Closing Doors is the story of Ricky, a 13-year-old boy with autism, and his mother, Mariana. An undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Mariana works long days cleaning houses while Ricky, deeply imaginative but pai...
New Currents
Jal (Water)Through the story of a dowser, a person looking for a vein of water, this film criticizes man’s selfish instincts, greed and evil. It is Girish Malik’s first feature. The film is set in India’s Great Rann of Kutch. Bakka, a famous...
Flash Forward
Wild DuckOverwhelmed by debt, telecom engineer Dimitris closes his business right before becoming embroiled in an amateur phone hacking investigation with a former colleague. The search leads Dimitris to a woman living in a suspicious apar...