Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 93min

This film dramatizes the life of Hong Guk-yeong (1748~1781), a powerful politician that was a close advisor to King Jeongjo and worked as a conduit through which the king accessed public sentiment and real-world situations. Filled...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 124min

After returning to his war-torn hometown, disabled veteran Yongi begins digging tunnels through the village mountain and irrigating its wastelands. Only after Park Chung-hee’s military regime provides support does Yongi finally su...

Flash Forward

• Germany,Switzerland
• 2012
• 117min

The City of Munich rents out an old building called Annelie as a welfare facility. This facility shelters the socially excluded, including the homeless and drug addicts. One day, the city decides to demolish the building and every...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2012
• 120min

Based on true events. The dramatic thriller chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis?he truth of which was unknown by the public for decade...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2012
• 95min

is a grand scale animated adaption of part of the classic Indian epic「 Mahabharata」,focusing on its hero and eventual mythical icon Arjun. It is not quite a standard adventure tale, but more of a story that deals with the process ...

World Cinema

• France,Germany,Austria
• 2012
• 127min

The most remarkable thing about Love is that the two main characters, an old couple, never gets out of their apartment from the beginning to the end of the film. Even the dream of the old man, who should take care of his wife, tak...

Open Cinema

• Poland
• 2012
• 94min

An old man in his 70s finds a letter after his wife left him. Shocked by what was written inside, the man gets hospitalized. The day after his hospitalization his son, a famous pianist, and a teenage boy visit him. They play piano...

World Cinema

• United States,Hong Kong,China
• 2012
• 80min

Abigail Harm is a lonely woman living in a fictionalized New York City. She reads books for the elders and the disabled for a living. After being granted a wish by a strange visitor, asks for love and learns of a creature who migh...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia
• 2012
• 74min

A minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant’s daughter. He goes on a journey to marry her, promising to return in 1000 days after traveling to the end of the world. She waits with poison in one hand and a knife in th...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2012
• 87min

We live in a high-tech world where smart phones reign supreme, but the possibility lingers that the gadget may become a thing of the past under extreme circumstances. Charu encounters just such a situation. The director tells the ...