Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 96min

This melodrama is the first of the would-be ‘radical’ melodramas by director Jeon Kyu-hwan famous for the ‘Town Trilogy’. It centers on a CEO of a publishing company and his wife. The husband is in a immoral relationship with a wr...

Wide Angle

• Finland,Lithuania
• 2011
• 59min

Set in a war torn Chechen city, this documentary about a missing man, his family, and neighbors premiered at Berlin. Unfolding over the years between 2006 and 2009, [Barzakh] is about those who disappeared after being taken away b...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 97min

An extraordinary independent filmmaker, Lee Sang-woo returns to the Busan International Film Festival with this controversial ‘big budget’ feature, made for some cost of $100,000. [Father is a Dog], Lee’s extremely low budget film...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2011
• 130min

Sixteenth century Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama opened a new chapter in history when he discovered a sea route between Europe and India. By the same token, the peace of the Kerala tribe was disrupted by the appearance of Weste...

World Cinema

• Germany,Kazakhstan,Russia
• 2011
• 95min

Baikonur is a name of an area of Kazakhstan. The former Soviet built the world’s first space ship launching site there and it is still the largest running launching site. Villagers make their living out of collecting and selling m...

Wide Angle

• Jordan,United Arab Emirates
• 2011
• 14min

Elderly couple Bahiya and Mahmoud never stop bickering. After waking from a nap Mahmoud goes looking for his absent wife. Upon arriving home, Bahiya finds the house empty and goes looking for Mahmoud. Despite their constant quarre...

Flash Forward

• Canada
• 2011
• 94min

As the title, [The Odds], suggests, this film is about gambling. At night, high school students who make bets at the basketball court, gather together in one house. A small gambling game is held every night at this house. Gambler ...

Midnight Passion

• China
• 2011
• 106min

A young herbalist Xu Xian comes to the mountains and accidentally falls into a lake. White Snake in the incarnation of a beautiful lady comes to his rescue. Her passion for this young man could not be contained, and with the help ...

Flash Forward

• Estonia
• 2011
• 132min

[The Idiot] is an Estonian adaptation of the Dostoyevsky’s novel of the same title. It is a drama of annihilation driven by significant characters of Myshkin, Natasha, and Rogozhin. Myshkin’s sincerity is mistaken as naivete and l...

Midnight Passion

• United States,Canada
• 2011
• 120min

Simon seems like a fairly normal, average young man who’s devoted to his teaching job and ailing mother. Underneath the surface, however, things are not what they seem. Simon hunts through online chat rooms and message boards, sea...