World Cinema

• United States
• 2013
• 96min

Grace is a 20-something supervisor at Short Term 12, a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. She is passionate about her work and takes great care of the kids, though she struggles with her own troubled past. When Jayden, a ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Kazakhstan
• 2013
• 132min

It is the 1930s, and Soviet rule arrives in Kazakhstan, and with it, collectivization?the nationalization of private property. The herds slaughtered and dispatched to Moscow reducing Kazakhstan’s population by 50 percent in less t...

Wide Angle

• Malaysia,Singapore
• 2013
• 13min

In a plantation harvesting tropical fruit, laborers work like prisoners. Missing his wife, Tonton tries to escape but is captured. Unable to stand the violent foreman, Tonton and his friend finally commit murder and escape. The fi...

Flash Forward

• Turkey
• 2013
• 95min

Sisters Lale and Yasemin are on vacation in Turkey’s coast of the Aegean Sea. They are trying to reacquaint with each other after a long separate silence. But their pleasant holiday turns into a potential explosive when a certain ...

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Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 64min

There is a woman who has lived on the sea. At her age of seventy, but she still goes out to the sea alone as a fisherwoman. Not just fishing, while she maintains posts in a fishing farm, doing harvest, selling them in the market, ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 113min

A young man begins to earn money by playing Go after giving up his dream of becoming a professional. One day, a gang leader with a great interest in the game plays with the young man. Meanwhile, the young man begins to take an int...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 89min

Lee Jang-ho returns 18 years after Declaration of Genius (1995). Islamic rebels abduct a missionary group made up of a priest, a missionary, and an elder. The rebels demand their leader’s release, and with their lives in danger th...

World Cinema

• Croatia,Serbia
• 2013
• 93min

The Catholic priest pierces the condoms to be sold, while the pharmacist substitutes contraception pills with vitamins to boost the birth rate. Unwanted pregnancies occur, bringing unwanted babies into the world, and the priest fo...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 108min

Godsend was made by a rookie director based on a scenario by Kim Ki-duk. A woman who desperately wants a baby asks a girl who is considering abortion to give her the baby instead. The two arrive at an isolated vacation home to spe...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2013
• 125min

Rajini says that she has just survived a civil war dispute and requests asylum. She starts to tell the tale of how she came from a rural orphanage, and what her living conditions there were like. Having begun his directing career ...