A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2012
• 99min

A newcomer to the Chinese indie film scene, Li Rui Jun’s third film is based on Su Tong’s novel . Lao Ma and Lao Cao are old carpenters living in a rural village. All their lives they built coffins together for funerals. But when ...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 68min

This film is about a story of our children seeking new hope and alternatives beyond school. A community center in Busan runs a cultural program for teenage dropouts where they can gather together, make friends and form a rock band...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2012
• 112min

Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. Biological communion ?for a price. Syd also supplies illegal samples of these viruses to piracy groups, s...

World Cinema

• Colombia,Brazil,France
• 2012
• 90min

Thomas lives in the city of Bogota where racism runs rampant. He wanders the streets with his friends and works as an apprentice barber, working on massively intricate hair-dos painstakingly executed with clippers and razor-blades...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2012
• 84min

Ex-con Yukio has come to a town surrounded by the mountains, the sea, lava flows and desert for vengeance against Yoji, the man who betrayed him. But instead Yukio becomes obsessed with Rika, a mysterious beauty. While his politic...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2012
• 94min

Nicole, 42, is a pharmacist with a husband and two teenage kids who is at a point in her life when she is asking if ‘this is it,’ or whether there’s something more. One day she gets a letter from an anonymous observer who knows he...

Wide Angle

• France
• 2012
• 48min

A documentary film dealing with the artistic world of the wuxia film master King Hu, the artist who took wuxia cinema in Hong Kong to a new level. Differentiating himself from hiscontemporaries?Chang Cheh, Li Han Hsiang?and creati...

World Cinema

• France
• 2012
• 116min

Oscar’s day is filled with going back and forth between several lives. He is at the top of his industry, an assassin, a beggar and a monster and simultaneously a loving husband and father. He is accompanied only by Celine, his lim...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2012
• 90min

Growing old alone in a village hundreds of miles away from his hometown, Kao might die while doing what he has done in life: cremating people. At a crematorium that receives unclaimed bodies, Kao’s job is to cremate the dead and h...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 117min

This mystery drama unfolds from a story about a woman whose whole life is fake, a fiancee who is obsessed by the missing fiancee, and a cousin who used to be a police detective. The film was based on the novel All She was Worth, w...