Opening Film & Closing Film

• Korea
• 2011
• 108min

A fatal love story centered on ex-boxer Chul-min(So Ji-sub) and telemarketer Jung-hwa (Han Hyo-joo). He has closed his heart to the world and she remains spirited despite slowly losing her vision. Eliminating the so-called silent ...

Open Cinema

• Korea,South
• 2011
• 110min

[Punch] is an acclaimed coming-of-age film based on the enormously popular novel by Kim Yeo-ryung and play produced by Kim Dong-soo. It’s a timely text presenting the possibilities of the One Source Multi Use (OSMU) products. 18 y...

World Cinema

• Spain
• 2011
• 92min

One evening, an unidentified man arrives in the small island village of Mallorca, Spain. Hoping that not one will notice him, he settls down in an abandoned store. But word soon spreads that a stranger has purchased and plans to r...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2011
• 108min

Rather than just looking at swordplay or martial arts from a material and physical perspective, they are interpreted as reasoning and philosophy, and as symbols of honor in [The Sword Identity], dismantling the conventional style ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2011
• 32min

Eunsil, an ethnic Korean from China, finds herself pregnant and makes up her mind to get an abortion. Conflict with a student working at the restaurant where she does throws adisturbing wrench in her plans, leading Eunsil to repli...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2011
• 115min

A look into the history of Japan’s adult video industry through the eyes of a director with 40 years’ experience in it. Japan’s sex empire produces some of the most diverse and unconventional pornography in the world, and Tadashi ...

Flash Forward

• Poland
• 2011
• 88min

Fred and Jurek are brothers. Their father always advises them to cooperate but the brothers who run a business together are always in discord like Cain and Abel, each insisting on his own position. On a train ride, the brothers wi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Portugal,France
• 2011
• 147min

This is a documentary-like feature film by Miguel Gomes in which himself and his film crew travel through the rustic Portuguese countryside to participate in several music festivals in August. On the surface, there appears to be n...

World Cinema

• Italy,France
• 2011
• 102min

The papal electorate gathers to select a new leader. Black smoke keeps rises from the chimney as no one wishes to be the pope. Saint Peter’s Square is crowded with those who wait for a result. Melville, an outsider cardinal, is fi...

Wide Angle

• Denmark
• 2011
• 73min

To 11 year old Jonathan, his little sister Sophie’s mere existence is a nuisance; she is someone who only gets in the way of his time alone with his grandfather during vacation. When Sophie is kidnapped by a bear that lives in a n...