A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2012
• 106min

Bangas-An and his wife Shaleha are a childless Muslim couple struggling to make ends meet in a region fraught with violence and poverty. They are also a Bajau couple, widely considered gypsies, a frequently maligned and oppressed ...

World Cinema

• Italy,France
• 2012
• 110min

Eluana Englaro, who has lived in a vegetative state for 17 years now faces death and throws Italia into a chaos. A member of the upper house feels confused before voting on a bill on euthanasia. A famous actress has a daughter who...

World Cinema

• Italy,Switzerland
• 2012
• 108min

opens with the inner monologue of a statue of the great general Garibaldi as he observes the comings and goings of the people beneath him, particularly Leo, a widowed plumber father who falls in love with a struggling artist, his ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 101min

This monumental biographical film chronicles the life and death of Reverend Ju Gicheol(1897~1944), one of the greatest Christian leaders in Korean history. The film dramatizes a series of key events between 1936 and his martyrdom...

Wide Angle

• Afghanistan
• 2012
• 26min

A middle-aged soldier stands guard at his war-ravaged post, facing a dilemma between duty and humanity. When he leaves a younger solider takes his place and is faced with the same dilemma. Confronted with a history of violence rep...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2012
• 20min

When a transfer student is introduced and tells her new classmates she’s not looking for any friends, the ostracized Yoko immediately pursues a friendship with her. Transferring humorously and sympathetically depicts the warm burg...

Gala Presentation

• Iran
• 2012
• 87min

Mohsen Makhmalbaf and his son Maysam paid a visit to Haifa, Israel where the governing authority of the Baha′i Faith was located. The Baha′i is a religion founded in Iran some 170 years ago, emphasizing peace between all humans. T...

World Cinema

• Belgium
• 2012
• 94min

A mysterious disaster breaks out in a small Belgian village and spring stops coming. The order of nature is destroyed and the residents′ life becomes messy. Only Alice and Thomas, teenagers living in this forest village, strive to...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2012
• 29min

A man gives a young couple with a sick child a ride. Hoping to have a family of his own with a woman at the roadside shop, the man envies the family even with a sick child. Meanwhile, in another car, a couple was bickering over a ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Poland,United States,Germany
• 2012
• 105min

Krzysztof Zanussi’s strong point has always been the ability of setting up situations in which characters find themselves in a conundrum without an obvious way out. Zanussi’s classic dilemmas are often not the choice between good ...