World Cinema

• Portugal
• 2011
• 98min

An avant-garde reconsideration of the Dracula legend, [The Baron] opens with the arrival an elementary school inspector in a remote village. According to the director, the original film version of [The Baron] was shot by a team of...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2011
• 115min

A widow runs a farm with her young son. A man comes into their lives with mysterious past and helpful hands. On the other hand, a group of villains are looking for an infamous gunman and the sheriff is after the same man. They fin...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Japan
• 2011
• 119min

Based on renowned Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue’s autobiographical novel, this moving film is directed by Harada Masato, an acclaimed director with a style peculiar to himself and a diverse career ranging from actor to director t...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 112min

Kim’s famous boxing film stars Kim Gi-su, who was a famous champion at the time. Long takes of boxing scenes are vivid and real as two sets of fists cut across the screen. However these realistic action scenes take up only a small...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2011
• 115min

2009 ACF Script Development Fund Residing in a slum, Toto is nonetheless a special boy. He was born with a disability?a cleft lip?so he can’t even pronounce his own name properly. Regardless, he insists on participating in a spee...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2011
• 96min

Rabindranath Tagore is one of India’s greatest poets and Asia’s first Nobel Laureate. The house where he was born, now a museum, had his Nobel medal stolen from it in 2004, and its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day. [Nobel ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2011
• 112min

In a village in the Punjab region, an occupied home is demolished overnight on the orders of the landlord. When the villagers hear the news in the morning, they protest. Old and ill, a man, a father, also tries to protest, but is ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 96min

Yoo Bong-Eun, a widowed hospital dormitory matron, has a younger boyfriend. In order to keep him by her side while maintaining a respectable front, she insists that he marry a nurse who lives in the dormitory. We can predict what ...

New Currents

• Philippines
• 2011
• 100min

[Nino] is the story of a family entangled by greed. Gaspar, head of the Lopez-Aranda family, is a retired politician who loves music. His cousin Celia now lives with him at his mercy, though she was once a renowned opera singer. G...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2011
• 25min

A group of prisoners sentenced to life wake up in an unknown place. It doesn’t take long for them to realize that they are adrift in space with only one evacuation shuttle on board. Under the premise of gambling with their lives f...