Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 115min

2011 ACF Post-production Fund This is, in a way, a comprehensive anti-narrative film. The storylines are monumentally complex. Although the director was assistant director to Hong Sang-soo on [Tale of Cinema] and [Hahaha], his wo...

World Cinema

• Bolivia
• 2011
• 72min

An immense shootout that took place in a desert during the Bolivian military dictatorship in the 1970s forms the backround for this gritty black and white film. Tonio’s parents disappear following the melee, and he returns to his ...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2011
• 95min

Roger Corman is the most prolific B-movie director and producer in Hollywood and the godfather of American independent cinema. This documentary keenly catalogs his life and career. He made his first feature in the 1950s, America’s...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2011
• 94min

Following the end of World War II, Polish people in Prussia find themselves subjected to a series of changes of power. The horrors that Poland had to experience during the war as a small nation are symbolically demonstrated throug...

World Cinema

• Finland,France,Germany
• 2011
• 93min

“Le Havre” means “port” in Finnish. A ship where immigrant refugees sneaked in arrives at a port, and immigrant officials are busy tracking town illegal immigrants. Among these immigrant refugees is an African boy who is going to ...

Open Cinema

• Korea,South
• 2011
• 93min

2008 APM (aka. PPP) Project The monumental masterwork that paved the way for Korean animation that found both critical and popular success, [Leafie] is based on Hwang Sun-mi’s bestselling novel. The film remains faithful to the...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2011
• 83min

When beloved and respected actor Robert dies, his wife Ellen is devastated. She tries to overcome her sorrow by continuing to hold his acting workshops, cleaning out Robert’s belongings, and proceeding with a memorial service. The...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2011
• 108min

[A Journey with Korean Masters] is an omnibus film compiling four shorts created by directors who once dominated Korean cinema: Park Chul-soo, Lee Doo-yong, Lee Jang-ho, and Chung Ji-young. This modest project is the product of ...

World Cinema

• France
• 2011
• 105min

The relationship between Hanah and Violetta is peculiarly obscure. For not only is it between a mother of marked individuality and a daughter with affection deficiency but between a fantasy loving photographer and a half-hearted m...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2011
• 141min

2008 APM (aka. PPP) Project Director Yamashita Nobuhiro’s ninth feature film, [My Back Page], is about Japan’s radical student movement during of the late ’60s and early ’70s. The story begins when fledgling journalist Sawada g...