Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 90min

2007 APM (aka. PPP) Project Once having worked as director and assistant director, the two directors now come together in this ‘relay movie’ about an immoral liaison. The title is not the only provocative part about this movie....

World Cinema

• United States
• 2011
• 91min

Plagued by his own demons, Walter, once a successful toy executive and happy family man, has hit rock bottom and now suffers from depression. No matter what he tries, he can’t seem to get himself back on track. But in his darkest ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2011
• 76min

Having grown up in the countryside, innocent Cahaya heads to Jakarta in search of her father, whom she has not seen since she was 4 years old. But the father she meets there is no longer the warm and tender man she remembers?he is...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2011
• 109min

Sono Sion is perhaps best remembered as the controversial director of [The Room](1993), but apart from that one film he is still regarded as the pre-eminent director of Japan’s independent film industry of the 1990s. The Room rece...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 105min

This sensitive drama was highly anticipated because of the so-called ‘Hyun Bin Effect’. The director’s minimalist style allows loose exterior plot focusing on nuances and details within the story. The couple is about to divorce af...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2011
• 103min

Khoa leaves his life in the countryside and heads to Saigon with no without identification and with no solid plans. In the city he finds men earn a living in one of two ways: by collecting scrap metal or prostituting themselves to...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2011
• 103min

Philippine’s action star Fernando Poe Jr. directs and acts in this traditional Western film. As Philippine is known for its flexibility accepting occidental culture, the film accommodates Western elements in the film without much ...

New Currents

• China
• 2011
• 95min

[Lost in the Mountain] was inspired by Sky Clean Sand: Autumnal Thoughts, a poem by prominent yuanqu author Ma Zhiyuan, dating from the early Yuan era. Our lives are as unpredictable as the fog, and we are powerless before a crue...

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany,France,UK,United States
• 2011
• 110

A new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s classic novel of same title comes to the 3D screen. Aspiring knight, D’Artagnan, is played by a newcomer Logan Lerman. The director and producer Paul W. S. Anderson, known for the [Resident Ev...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2011
• 93min

This film tells three parallel stories of lives away from home. Guoguang goes to Shanghai from the countryside and works as an assistant chef in a restaurant. His brother breeds reindeer in the mountains far away, and Lao Lu, the ...