A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2011
• 91min

Kotoko is a woman who is far from normal. She screams in the streets in the middle of the day, has a habit of stabbing men with a fork, and habitually cuts her wrists with a razor. She sees everyone as two figures within one perso...

Wide Angle

• Sweden,Estonia,Finland,Cuba
• 2011
• 85min

Set in Sierra Maestra, where Fidel Castro’s revolution began, this musical documentary pivots on a young doctor‘, El Medico’, attempting to fulfill his dream of becoming a‘ Cubaton’?a Cuban Reggaeton. Singer/songwriter El Medico ...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2011

2008 AND DongSeo Asia Fund A document of a man who tried to protect his home for 10 years. When a sewing machine factory suddenly closes, its laborers lose their livelihoods and homes, which were provide by the company. The major...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 121min

This is a ‘miraculous’ omnibus film completed by eight budding directors who gathered to make short films about kisses with a budget of only 30,000 dollars. Each piece was shot in one or two days, but the consistent quality shared...

World Cinema

• Norway,Sweden,Poland,France
• 2011
• 115min

Bastoy Prison for minors houses prisoners of diverse backgrounds. They receive neither education nor correction, but instead, are used to support cheap labor in the worst conditions. In order to survive the inhumane treatment, the...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2011
• 96min

[Taj] is a representative example of the indie cinema that operates alongside the mostly government funded film of Australia. Filmed in urban Melbourne, the film shows an Australia that is so far removed from the Caucasian dominat...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2011
• 96min

Emerging Singaporean writer Eric Khoo [Be With Me] has made an animation! [Tatsumi] is an homage to the life and works of 1970s manga artist Tatsumi Yoshihiro. Though the simple black and white drawing is far removed from today’s ...

Gala Presentation

• Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 107min

What effect did Greece’s economic crisis have on a Hong Kong gangster? How did the lives of a loan shark, a bank teller, a policeman and a gangster become intertwined? Few directors could make a story like this come alive. Direct...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2011
• 88min

After his father disappears in a fishing accident, 20-year-old Filippo operates a small hostel with his mother in a small island in Southern Italy. Grandfather Ernesto stubbornly maintains the life of a fisherman, while his uncle ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2011
• 95min

Within a monument built at the time “model city economics” had reached a significant turning point, three high school boys that accept being a step behind the times somehow continue to eke a meager existence. Aspiring filmmaker Sh...