World Cinema

• Sweden,Norway
• 2012
• 104min

Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his l...

Special Programs in Focus

• UK
• 2012
• 113min

Polanski’s third feature is a subversive send-up of a gangster story, heavily influenced by surrealists and the theatre of absurd (the film’s initial title was Waiting for Katelbach, clearly referencing Beckett). It is an early va...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2012
• 120min

explores the consequences of 3.11. After the disaster, Shiori and Kenji, a couple working at a small factory recovering from the tragedy, are looking forward to having a baby. But Kenji dies in an accident caused by his colleague ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Poland
• 2012
• 112min

The philosophical implications of this film are as universal as they are obvious ? accidental events can radically influence your life. But it is Kieslowski’s honest approach to his central character that makes the film extraordin...

World Cinema

• Sweden
• 2012
• 104min

Ra?, a twentysomething muslim immigrant working at a salad packing plant, is laid off one day and enforced to face the real world. She is an expert in cutting vegetables, but without a high school diploma nor a driver’s license, t...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 25min

Based on the novella by Lee Hyo-suk, this is the first in the series of Korea Short Stories, commissioned by animation studio Meditation by Pencils. Imaginative images combine with flourishes of unique Korean culture to realize Mr...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand,UK
• 2012
• 61min

It is believed there is a broad range of ghosts In Thailand, one of them being Pob, which lives on human organs. Near the Mekong River at the Thailand-Laos border, there is nothing legendary about Pob. It is a fact of life. direct...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 119min

Is Melo a melodrama or the chronicle of a monster? If it’s a melodrama then it is a sensuous and emotional one that illustrates the tensions and conflicts between a momentary and an obsessive love that end in catastrophe. Having s...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 117min

is a story about elite high school seniors, the top 1%, who are prepared to go to extremes to get into prestigious universities. A student who has ranked number one at an esteemed school dies in a remote mountain. Finding out why ...

Midnight Passion

• Indonesia
• 2012
• 87min

A man is on a holiday in the woods with his wife and two kids, but they are surprised by the arrival of an uninvited guest. Before he understands what’s going on, he finds himself separated from his family. Now, he has to race wit...