World Cinema

• Spain,France
• 2012
• 104min

Carmen loses her mother who was a flamenco dancer and she is raised by her father, who is a famous bullfighter, and a mean stepmother. She learns bullfight from her father and becomes a member of a traveling troupe. Against the ba...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2012
• 92min

1976: Berberian Sound Studio is one of the cheapest, sleaziest post-production studios in Italy. Only the most sordid horror films have their sound processed and sharpened in this studio. Gilderoy, a naive and introverted sound en...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 133min

This is the “Crime thriller of 2012” involving organized crime world set in the 1980’s in the port city of Busan. It’s actually the director’s father’s generation and so the “retro” perspective leads one to consider this film a ki...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2012
• 96min

is a story of the despair among Beijing’s youth. San Bao is a poor young man who stops speaking after his girlfriend dumps him for a wealthy married man. He suffers suicidal tendencies brought on by the agony of rejection based on...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia
• 2012
• 88min

Director Rezo Chkheidze, decided to restore the film in colors because it was originally projected a color film but could not afford to cover the expenses. was restored under the supervision of Director Chkheidze himself and thus...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 65min

Widely recognized as a master of literary films for his previous works, including (1965) and (1967), director Kim Soo-yong’s adaptation of KIM U-jeong’s folksy, humorous novel in color cinemascope represents a significant depart...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 15min

An elderly man longingly calls an elderly woman in the next neighborhood, and she delightedly answers him. The old lovers’ romance must be kept secret. They want to spend the rest of their lives together but can’t in a classic sto...

Wide Angle

• Cambodia,United States
• 2012
• 92min

At one orphanage in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the performing arts are the path to healing and transformation. Guided by their matriarch Peng Phan, a renowned actress in her own right, the children aspire to achieve one of the highest ...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 95min

In 2009, a group of young people quit their jobs and founded an alternative fashion company, Orgdot, in the hopes of creating an ethical fashion brand. In contrast to the bloodsucking practices found in the current fashion industr...

Special Programs in Focus

• Poland
• 2012
• 107min

For a brief moment before his tragic death in 1961, Andrzej Munk was the yin to Andrzej Wajda’s yang in Polish cinema. is exactly the opposite of Wajda‘s romantic and poetic approach to Polish history. Munk presented World War II...