World Cinema
IdaBrought up by convent nuns and about to take her religious vows, Anna goes to see her only living relative Aunt Wanda. Her aunt reveals Anna is Jewish and her real name is “Ida”. Both women start a journey to uncover their family ...
Wide Angle
Killing AuntieA man confesses to having killed his aunt without any remorse. He didn’t gain anything from her death, except for her being too loud and she kept getting on his nerves. The film is a satire on the modern man who looks with indiffe...
New Currents
The IsthmusAfter Gee, her Burmese housekeeper dies, 8-year-old Hom suddenly forgets her native Thai language and starts to speak in Burmese. Hom’s mother, Da, believes that Gee’s spirit has not left Hom, and decides to head out to Ranong to ...
World Cinema
Inside Llewyn DavisLlewyn Davis is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles-some of them of his own making. Living at the me...
Special Programs in Focus
Life's a BreezeWhen a mattress containing the life savings of an elderly lady is accidently thrown out by a well-meaning family, pandemonium and a nationwide search of the hidden treasure ensues.Life’s a Breeze is a feel-good ‘recession comedy’ ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Ilo IloWhen Teresa is hired as a maid by a middle-class, Singaporean family, she encounters a hostile ten-year old boy. Her own alcoholic husband and a young child home in the Philippines are dependent on her income, so dismissal must be...
Wide Angle
The Missing PictureBy blending clay dolls, pictures, and the images of documentary films, the winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes this year recreates the devastating memory of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In the film, public history is pr...
Wide Angle
Lazy Hitchhikers’ Tour de Europe‘Travelling without money’ could be a privilege of youth. This film is a real story of a group of youngsters who travelled Europe for one year without a penny. During the great journey, they make a promotion film for a hostel and ...
Special Programs in Focus
The GeneralJohn Boorman's career-long fascination with ambivalent or ambiguous protagonists reaches an apogee in the veritable antihero of The General, a character closely modelled on real-life Dublin gangster Martin Cahill, who in the 1980s...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The General′s SonIn the 1930s, under Japanese occupation, Kim Doo-han wins a fight against a Japanese student while working at a theater in Jongno. He becomes a local hero. As Korean gang power grows in the Jongno business area, Hayashi the Japane...