Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 97min

This is the most representative film of the so-called ‘Manchuria western’, Jang’s heroic activities stood out, a man of toughness, sentiment and righteousness. Based on the tropes of the Hollywood western coupled with the action s...

World Cinema

• Denmark
• 2012
• 111min

After a divorce, Lukas prepares to open a new chapter of life, finding a new job at a kindergarten. He begins a new relationship with a woman he meets at the kindergarten, and continues to build bondage with his son from the forme...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 12min

A woman is packing to move. Among the scattered piles she finds a knitting bag with an unfinished garment inside. She restarts the project but is soon disturbed by a friend hovering around the porch, burrowing through her stuff. ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2012
• 134min

If the only thing left after a massive disaster is hope, what could that hope be for? Sono Sion’s Land of Hope is a story about looking for hope where there is none. In Ohara village in Nakashima, Yoichi lives with his wife Izumi ...

World Cinema

• Sweden,Norway
• 2012
• 104min

Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his l...

World Cinema

• Portugal,France
• 2012
• 85min

Da Mata, who spent his childhood in Macao, returns to the city after receiving an unexpected phone call from a friend called Candy. The city seems to have changed a lot in the last 30 years but the life of people living there rema...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia
• 2012
• 88min

Based on a Georgian folk tale of people building a fortress against the enemies, which collapses before completion. A message tells them a boy should be locked inside the wall alive. This was a comeback of Parajanov after his sile...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2012
• 106min

Based on the original work by Kenji Miyazawa, is the latest animated feature by the legendary Sugui Gisaburo. The film has garnered a great deal of attention as a production by the same crew behind , an exemplar of Gisaburo’s wor...

Wide Angle

• United Arab Emirates
• 2012
• 17min

A man wakes up, gets dressed and goes to work where a colleague has caught his eye. His everyday life unfolds from the perspective of a camera placed on the floor, moving beyond anonymity and into horror. The camera placed down on...

World Cinema

• France,Czech Republic
• 2012
• 93min

One snowy day, Ursus, a performer in a travelling troupe, comes upon two orphans called Gwynplaine and Dea who are raised as a brother and a sister. After growing up, they fall in love with each other. As they join the troupe, Gwy...