Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2011
• 77min

This film is one of the famous ‘Rambler Series’ in Japanese Western films. A man comes from a wasteland and walks into the backstreets of a city carrying a guitar on his back. He gets into a fight in a bar and before he realizes, ...

Wide Angle

• Nepal
• 2011
• 27min

A prostitute’s only source of happiness stems from sending letters to a radio DJ and listening to him read them on air. Devastated by her bleak circumstances, she stops writing one day, leaving him desperately waiting to hear from...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2011
• 88min

China is a country where modernization and pre-modernization co-exist. The news media constantly boasts of the country’s strong defense power and economic prowess, evidenced by its huge foreign exchange reserve, while the peripher...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2011
• 89min

2010 AND Dong-Eui Cinema Fund After an 8-year relationship, Jae-nyeon and Woo-young decide to get married. Though similar brain lesions define them, the pair must confront and resolve marital issues identical to any other couple....

World Cinema

• Peru,Germany,Argentina
• 2011
• 107min

1982, during political unrest in Peru, Caetana is an upper class member, living in her stepfather’s vast mansion with servants. She is used to being alone, and uses her imagination to hold conversations with dead Peruvian heroes w...

Flash Forward

• Russia
• 2011
• 88min

This film tells a story of Boris Fishkin, a dancing student at Bolshoi Dance Academy in Moscow. He sincerely believes that his father is Mikhail Baryshnikov, the legendary Russian dancer. Fishkin never knew his real father and he ...

Wide Angle

• Romania,Poland
• 2011
• 73min

The true story of Romanian laborer Claudio Crulic who died in a Polish prison after refusing to eat comes to the big screen as an animation. The first person narrative by the main character starts off by telling us of his death at...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2011
• 11min

A man leaves a woman in search of the unknown. Enduring the latest of several failed relationships, the woman is exhausted?body and soul. She feels as if she is crossing an arid plain. This ambitious animated film communicates the...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 114min

During a brief respite in the Korean War, a North Korean officer Jang Il-goo defects to South Korea in order to find his lover. But she has already married a South Korean lieutenant. This is a war melodrama about the tragic relati...

Special Programs in Focus

• Portugal,France
• 2011
• 133min

Tonia, a transsexual, is in danger of being replaced by newcomers. Her younger lover Rosario wants her to get a sex change operation and become a ‘complete’ woman but her religious beliefs prevent her from doing so. The son that s...