Special Programs in Focus

• Portugal
• 2011
• 115min

Cidalia is a Portuguese immigrant in her thirties who has settled down with her family in the slums on the outskirts of Paris. She is working as a janitor at a factory, when her son is involved in a shootout with the French police...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2011
• 95min

Bruno, a former teacher, makes a living by tutoring or ghostwriting others’ autobiographies. He discovers that his student Luca, a troublemaker, is actually his own son, when an old flame of his suddenly shows up after fifteen yea...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2011
• 13min

A lonely man wonders what would have happened if he hadn’t turned away a woman who showed up at his door one day. What kind of life would he have led had he offered her a cup of tea? His questions suggest countless possibilities. ...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2011
• 85min

A psychological thriller based on a true story, this stunning film unveils the hidden lives of three deranged sisters and one disabled man(a sister’s son), who together play out horrific games of exploitation, abuse, and murder in...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2011
• 11min

A girl’s efforts to keep her father from prison lead her to a horrendous life as a comfort woman. Although the legacy is vivid, comfort women no longer makes headlines with many of the victims deceased. The issue of comfort women ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 92min

[A Certain Romance], Yonfan’s first feature, is about a girl’s journey to womanhood, as she learns how to navigate the terms of relationships after high school. Magi and Lily are best friends. Magi falls in love with a man she mee...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2011
• 84min

[Mourning] is a road movie about the events that swirl around a deaf and mute couple, Kamran and Sharareh, which takes their sister’s son home. After a terrible quarrel with her husband at their sister’s house, Nahid and Masoud de...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2011
• 158min

This emotional documentary focuses on the 50-year struggle by two men to prove their innocence after conviction for a crime largely on the basis of prior records and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The film begins with...

Special Programs in Focus

• Portugal
• 2011
• 91min

Michael, a professor who wants to prove that Shakespeare was originally from Spain, comes with his wife Helene to stay in a convent with a long history. Subtle nuances can be detected between Michael and Piedade, who is helping hi...

World Cinema

• Germany,France,Netherlands
• 2011
• 91min

[Sleeping Sickness] tells the story of Ebbo Velten, a German doctor who oversees a sleeping sickness treatment center in Cameroon. He is about to return to Europe with his wife, when Dr. Alex Nzila, a representative from the World...