A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2012
• 110min

, directed by Indonesian master Garin Nugroho, is an epic historical drama depicting the country’s years of turbulence. Based on the journals of national hero Albertus Soegijapranata, the film reorganizes personal histories of ord...

World Cinema

• Colombia,Peru
• 2012
• 74min

Sofia (Carmen Maura) is a woman in her sixties living with her husband Alfred (Gustavo Angarita) in a cold, quiet village in the Andes. She has never seen the sea and has always dreamt of going there. Year after year, Alfred promi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2012
• 300min

was originally a Japanese television drama series that aired in early 2012, and which Kurosawa Kiyoshi made four years after his previous film. The five episodes begin with the scene of a girl being murdered in a school gym. Each ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2012
• 93min

Jess is a pickpocket and having a long day that highlights the flaws in the Philippines police and judicial system. Young and poor, Jess steals a woman’s mobile phone in a crowded market. The woman is more concerned about a sex vi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia
• 2012
• 88min

Based on a Georgian folk tale of people building a fortress against the enemies, which collapses before completion. A message tells them a boy should be locked inside the wall alive. This was a comeback of Parajanov after his sile...

World Cinema

• Finland,Estonia
• 2012
• 125min

Allide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she finds a young woman in her yard ? Zara has just escape...

Special Programs in Focus

• Mexico
• 2012
• 110min

Based on a gruesome true story which occurred at Mexico City in the 1950′s, the film unfolds the theme of restraint, utilizing various tools; the husband obsessing his wife′s past, sexual tension between the brother and sister, th...

World Cinema

• Hong Kong,China,United States
• 2012
• 91min

Cocky firefighter Tinny can’t wait to lead his own team, and soaring with confidence following a success rescue he defies veteran commander Captain Ben and recklessly apttempts a solo mission. But when the flames bursts out of con...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan
• 2012
• 90min

The life is a struggle to survive in a jungle. A student majoring Philosophy suffers from lack of money and loneliness being under the pressure of the atmosphere of poverty, total survival competition, division of the rich and the...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2012
• 93min

is based on the true story of Craig and Irene Morrison. They have lived most of their lives in the same house, but it is in serious need of repairs. Add to that fact Irene is now starting to show signs of dementia, and it is only ...