Special Programs in Focus

• Afghanistan
• 2012
• 80min

A story of a curious country girl’s adventure in a big city. The girl, who lives in a calm rural village, dreams of traveling a big world like a bird which freely flies in the sky. She then leaves her home and heads for a big city...

Wide Angle

• Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2012
• 90min

The camera follows a Bosnian man, a Swiss woman and a Cuban man for many years to show how they change during this period. The three people are completely different from each other, in terms of their cultural backgrounds, national...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2012
• 65min

Similar to his penetrating previous work, , this film is based on a true story and demonstrates director Suman Ghosh’s innate ability to create inspiring cinema. Shyamal, perhaps a retired government worker, discovers a streetligh...

Special Programs in Focus

• Armenia
• 2012
• 79min

Blood-red pomegranates dripping on a white cloth, we hear a poignant monologue: “Life and soul are tortures to me.” Elaborate yet stationary images of suppressive religion and theatrical beauty of structure reveal cinematic aesthe...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India,United States
• 2012
• 82min

Gulzar and his best buddy Afzal live in the war torn area of Kashmir and plan to run off to the city while Gulzar’s uncle is on a pilgrimage. But as soon as he leaves, martial law is declared in the village and their plans are pus...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2012
• 153min

An omnibus film directed by three directors to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Thai production house GTH. The film’s universal theme is the premise that a person’s life goes through a major transition every seven years. The vig...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2012
• 95min

Mark Obrien is a well known poet and journalist. He has been living his life on a gurney because of the polio he contracted when he was six years old. When he turns 38, he decideds to lose his virginity and hires a professional se...

Wide Angle

• France,Hong Kong,China
• 2012
• 153min

In a Chinese mountain village the daily routine of three sisters begins. Living unsupervised in an old house, the young girls barely manage to feed themselves and spend their days at hard labor. Their father finally returns but th...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2012
• 90min

is a road movie about a teenage girl who has grown up in a remote petrol station in the Scottish Highlands. Abandoned by her mother when she was a child, Shell has stayed to take care of her dying father but now feels trapped with...

World Cinema

• Chile,Argentina
• 2012
• 114min

Sergio, played by iconic actor Fele Martinez, is a Spanish director who wants to make a Western. As his screenplays continue to be rejected by producers, he leaves for the Chilean desert to write a great, realistic story. In the d...