Wide Angle
There Is No Poetry HereIn Sri Lanka, the public responds to violent oppression by the government with violence. Following the images of violence back to back, a determined man stands up. To resist this repetition of violence, he makes a final declaratio...
Wide Angle
In the SummerAfter a girl witnesses a boy act on his affection for his friend, he agrees to do her bidding in order to keep his secret. But when the friend discovers the truth, the consequences are not what anyone would expect. (NAM Dong-chul)
A Window on Asian Cinema
Summer's EndTomoko is an expert in natural fabric dyeing and has been involved in an affair for eight years with Shinko, a married writer. Shinko lives a double life spending half of the week with his family and the other half with Tomoko. On...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Ikal Mayang : Telling Women StoriesAn omnibus of six short films produced by Garang Pictures which aims to change the world by new creation of the women by the women and for the women. It gives glimpse of how women would be received in the melting society of Malays...
Wide Angle
The Eternal Night of Twelve MoonsFocussing on the topic of women’s rite of passage, this documentary film portrays the period of isolation a girl from the Colombian Wayuu tribe must go through to be fully recognized as a woman. The newly menstruating Wayuu girls ...
Special Programs in Focus
Love EternalBased on the Japanese novel In Love with the Dead, from acclaimed author Kei Oishi (Apartment 1303, The Last Supper), the film centres on an isolated and death-fixated young man who tries to make sense of the world, and his existe...
Wide Angle
A Woman Under the InfluenceYeonsoo has one goal for the day: sell three life insurance contracts. With two done she targets an old friend for the third, who dodges her efforts. After stooping to illegalities, Yeonsoo is forced to ask if she’ll actually be s...
A Window on Asian Cinema
OmarThe latest film of Hany Abu-Assad, who constantly brings Palestinian issues to his films, conveys the dismal reality in the Israeli-Palestinian relationship that is threatened by Israel’s persistent effort to build psychological a...
World Cinema
Fruitvale StationFruitvale Station follows the true story of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head sta...
World Cinema
All is LostDeep into a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, an unnamed man wakes to find his 39-foot yacht taking on water after a collision with a shipping container left floating on the high seas. With his navigation equipment and radio disabl...