Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 80min

Another ambitious low-budget 3-D drama distinctive from [A Fish], Persimmon spent the budget of $350,000. The project had started as a cable TV movie that aired last year under the title [Restroom]. The TV movie went through a com...

New Currents

• Indonesia
• 2011
• 100min

The sea and a mirror are what sustain the life of 12 year old Kapis, who lives on the small Indonesian island of Kampung Bajo. The mirror is a gift left by her father who was lost at sea, and the sea is where she and her mother ma...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2011
• 85min

2011 AND Post-production Support ?10 years ago, I believed it possible to change the world with images. I then met Baek Ja at a protest site. He held the same beliefs. Not with images but with songs though. Armed with the camera ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Portugal,France
• 2011
• 142min

The film starts in a surrealistic atmosphere with a dialog-song with a customs officer. Manoel seems to have received some orders on the computer and leaves his daily routine to join a 15th century pirate ship. His friends ecstati...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 120min

This is a tragic drama about a man whose family was destroyed because of a car accident and the married couple who caused the accident. The parallel narratives of the two families alternate and gradually merge in a bittersweet con...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2011
• 104min

Rumpoey, daughter of the town’s richest and most powerful man, and Dum, a son of a poor farmer, reunite in the city years after having been apart as children. They are madly in love but the plot takes a tragic turn when Dum’s fath...

World Cinema

• Spain,Switzerland
• 2011
• 87min

There is a legend about the French author and painter Francois Augieras who is said to have painted a fresco in Africa during the mid-20th century ? when one of his pieces was destroyed, he painted it again and then buried it in a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2011
• 131min

Four directors have led the revival of the waning Japanese adult video industry, so-called “Pink Films,” since the end of the Nikkatsu Roman Porno era ended in the 1980s. One of these directors, Zeze Takahisa, has recently drawn a...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 133min

It is February, 1953 and truce talks are not going well. Control of Aerok Hill, on the eastern frontier, constantly changes sides. As the director noted about his ambitious human drama set in the battlefield, the main character of...

World Cinema

• Spain
• 2011
• 102min

Cesar, an old bachelor, works as a doorman in a wealthy neighborhood and lives with his ailing mother. He becomes revengeful as he despises the rich residents living in the building. Meanwhile, he pays close attention to one of th...