Wide Angle

• Switzerland,Canada
• 2012
• 114min

The new film by well-known documentarian and visual artist Peter Mettler illustrates the unpredictable nature of time with beautiful images of the . Mettler describes the human penchant for curiosity, starting with the American pi...

New Currents

• India
• 2012
• 117min

is a black comedy about understanding each other little by little under serious threats of terror through the medium of cinema. Sunny, struggling to make a living in the Bollywood industry, joins an American documentary filmmaking...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2012
• 110min

Ellison a renowned journalist, uproots his family in pursuit of his next big story. When he discovers a box of old home movies in the attic, he realizes this grisly footage could be the basis of his greatest book yet ? but only if...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2012
• 87min

After years living in Beijing, a woman visits her parents in her quiet hometown and their lives are chronicled in this documentary, a film that straddles the line between non-fiction and pure storytelling. Writer-director Song Fan...

Special Programs in Focus

• Mexico
• 2012
• 170min

Based on the novel of Naguib Mahfouz, the first Egyptian Novel Prize winner for Literature, the film depicts a middle-class family struggling against poverty after their father's death. The desperate mother chooses to sacrifice th...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2012
• 76min

At a prison in Rome, inmates rehearse for the staging of Shakespeare’s 『Julius Caeser』. The prisoners connect with their roles in the script as the tragic tale parallels their own lives: they are also faced with conflicts as they ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Poland
• 2012
• 71min

The most fascinating element of this film ? Skolimowski’s feature debut ? is the deliberate blurring of the line between the filmmaker and the protagonist. Skolimowski is the director and the screenwriter but also the actor on the...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2012
• 75min

After taming a former wasteland through hard work and sweat and creating a community, the settlers living there are given a place of worship?a place for honoring the gods. Now that the clergy owns the land, the settlers are reduce...

World Cinema

• Morocco,France,Belgium
• 2012
• 115min

Yachine is a boy who lives in Sidi Moumen, a slum in Morocco. He is always jealous of his charismatic elder brother Hamid. One day, an accident occurs and led by Hamid, Yachine joins a fundamentalist group and completely changes h...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2012
• 86min

This is a story about a father, Lothar who desperately looks for his missing daughter, Martha. As Lothar keeps on finding one clue to another, he learns out that many other kids have disappeared as well. By the help of a boy, Lou ...