Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 101min

2011 ACF Post-production Fund An ′anti-music′ film, [Dangerously Excited] centers on a seventh grade civil servant and a difficult rock band who come together through an unfortunate twist of fate and then develop a special relati...

Special Programs in Focus

• Portugal
• 2011
• 90min

Sergio is a gay man who is a street cleaner. His life is filled with unrequited desires and taboo fantasies. He falls in love with a man on a motorcycle and tries to force his desires on him but to no avail. An unabashed look at t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 123min

[Peony Pavilion] is an operatic drama where Yonfan’s esthetic sense of visual art reaches its pinnacle. Lan falls in love with Cui-Hua, a Kunqu opera actress after watching her performance. Becoming an actress herself, Lan and Cui...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 96min

This, Yonfan’s homage to Alfred Hitchcock, blends elements from 1950s classics such as Rear [Window and To Catch a Thief] with general themes from Vertigo. The director also borrows mises-en-scene from Michelangelo Antonioni’s [Bl...

Wide Angle

• France
• 2011
• 75min

Director Jafar Panahi is under house arrest after being sentenced to 6 years for anti-government activities and has been banned from filmmaking for 20 years. During a fireworks display in Tehran, Panahi’s friend, director Mojtaba ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2011
• 104min

A young lawyer campaigning for human rights has her license suspended while her reporter husband is terminated from his newspaper for his coverage of antigovernment activities. He now lives in exile and she lives by herself, lonel...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2011
• 85min

A strange story about a middle-aged woman who gives birth to a fish. A poor, middle-aged couple, Lina and Miguel, move into a village next to a dumpsite. When Miguel loses his job due to an illness, Lina starts to work in the dump...

Wide Angle

• France,Benin,Vietnam
• 2011
• 71min

Between 1946 and 1954, over 60,000 soldiers from Sub-Saharan Africa were mobilized in the colonial war in Asia as part of the French army. Contrary to the hopes of the French forces, however, they uickly became close to the local...

New Currents

• India
• 2011
• 101min

A poor family’s simple dream is to go to the circus. Though it may be seem a simple story on the surface, Indian Circus stirs gentle emotions?and much more. Kajaro is an ordinary housewife in a poor but happy family. Her husband,...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2011
• 15min

Failed North Korean spy Lee Dong-gyu remains in the South, as a defector working at an auto repair. Then one day, he’s kidnapped. The story examines the collision between espionage and daily life. In perceiving the situations of t...