A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China,China
• 2012
• 90min

Chinese Internet TV site Youku produced this omnibus film incorporating the works of some of Asia’s best filmmakers: Kim Tae-yong, Tsai Ming-Liang, Gu Changwei and Ann Hui. The film begs the question, “What is beautiful?” and atte...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2012
• 88min

People have a tendency to be drawn to danger and adventure, so this film takes us to the most dangerous spots in the world we live. The film was inspired by the true story of a Chinese-Filipino boy who went missing in the 1990s. S...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2012
• 92min

A girl named, Hushpuppy, lives with her father in a distant land in the southernmost edge of the world. Animals die in her community, turning the “southern land” into a ruin. Even her father becomes ill and Hushpuppy is faced with...

World Cinema

• Romania,France
• 2012
• 150min

Inspired by the non-fiction novels of Tatiana Niculescu Bran. Cristian Mungiu, Palme d’Or winner for his film, (2009), returns with the story of two girls trapped in religion and tradition of Romania. An orphan girl living in Ge...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Russia,Kyrgyzstan,France
• 2012
• 98min

Ascel lives in a remote little village in Kyrgyzstan, where the young woman cares for her drunkard father and siblings in the wake of their mother’s death. Ascel is clever and resourceful, and does her best to get by, but nonethel...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,Myanmar
• 2012
• 105min

depicts the lives of illegal immigrant workers from Myanmar living in Thailand. A Hong and his sister secretly cross the Thai border as part of a group, one of scores of illegal crossings organized by smuggling rings. Most of the ...

New Currents

• Taiwan,Hong Kong,China
• 2012
• 110min

Five years has passed since the acclaim for Chang’s The End of the Tunnel, and this year he unveils , a feature film version of that short. Based on a true story of Yuhsiang, a blind pianist, the film opens with a scene where the ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 100min

Restored with the computer graphic technology, describes the early history of Korean air force. The Stunning Cinematography was awarded in the 1965 Grand Bell Awards and Blue Dragon Film Awards. Shin Young-kyun was awarded with t...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 100min

Red Scarf was such a popular hit that its theme song reminds many people of the film even to this day, thanks to the Korean industry’s first ever attempt at aerial cinematography, mind-blowing air battle scenes and an array of sta...

Special Programs in Focus

• Poland
• 2012
• 185min

A long trip that will lead you to unexpected places, even if you have seen the film before. Sometimes called ‘Poland’s greatest cult film’, this is a classic example of a frame story (tale-within-a-tale-within-a-tale). Presented t...