Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2013
• 95min

While travelling across country, Zoe, a lovely deaf mute woman, stumbles on a horrific crime ? a gang of rednecks slaughtering two Native American boys. Zoe’s brave attempt to save one of the boys seals her fate. She is captured, ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2013
• 100min

The fourth film of Matsumoto Hitoshi, a well-known comedian and director, starts with an ordinary man joining a mysterious club. This film soon blurs the border between fantasy and reality by converging the exhibiting media into a...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2012
• 105min

Nine regular humans from different parts of the world are abducted and transformed into cyborgs with astounding powers for the purpose of being used as weapons. The nine cyborgs rebel and start to fight against their creators in t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2012
• 114min

is an omnibus feature where in 20 filmmakers were challenged to express the socalled authenticity of Taiwan as perceived by their own critical eyes. Commissioned by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival in honor of the island’s 10...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2012
• 119min

Wakamatsu Koji, the most heretical and disputable film director in Japanese cinema, insists that he has made films in order to understand what is not understandable occurring in Japan. His filmography includes (2008), based on th...

New Currents

• Iraq
• 2012
• 79min

This is a road movie that shouts out Kurdish pain to the world. The President of Iran receives a letter from 111 Kurdish girls. They demand that the government find them husbands, threatening mass suicide if it doesn’t. To solve t...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 2012
• 114min

Let’s just forget about the dramatic love portrayed in films or novels for a moment. The love that Director Hsu Chao-Jen portrays in can easily be called Down-to-Earth. Everyone around Xiao Yang, a 17-year-old high school boy, su...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 83min

Two high school friends?one a college freshmen, the other a repeater?pay a visit to a third friend doing his military service. But they have an ulterior motive, which is to deliver a Dear John letter from his lover. For the two ha...

World Cinema

• Uruguay,Argentina,Germany
• 2012
• 115min

Ana is a high-school girl playing handball. Her mother and father have divorced. Learning aerobics, her mother takes care of a relative hospitalized in an intensive care unit. In contrast, the life of her father, a dentist, is ver...

New Currents

• Thailand
• 2012
• 68min

Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s experimental film consists of 36 static camera shots that tell a story of how we store memories in the digital era. Sai, a location scout working for a studio, takes pictures whenever she’s working and...