Special Programs in Focus

• Portugal
• 2011
• 166min

An extreme love story that illustrates the madness of obsessive and selfish love, [Francisca] tells the story of Jose Augusto and Camilo who fight over Francisca during Portugal’s troubled history following Brazil’s independence. ...

Wide Angle

• France
• 2011
• 26min

]Inventing Happy Days profiles two immigrant women?one Russian and one Chinese?living in Paris doing odd jobs. Their dreams are dashed by reality, and the film focuses on their lack of hope. For those who struggle everyday to get ...

World Cinema

• Germany,France
• 2011
• 106min

One master meets another as Wenders, one of the world’s most critically acclaimed directors details the life of one of the greatest ballet choreographers of our time, Pina Bausch (1940~2009). Wenders, a long-time devotee of Bausch...

Wide Angle

• Australia
• 2011
• 10min

Contrary to the Australian reputation for openness, this sharp short highlights the suspicious nature and violent reflex underneath Australia’s celebrated amiability. A mother and her young daughters are returning home when they e...

Wide Angle

• Australia
• 2011
• 75min

Many of Australian film’s most famous actors - Naomi Watts, Mel Gibson, and Guy Pearce to name a few ? had to leave Australian shores to reach the peak of their talent and to find their fame. This is now such a well-worn trail tha...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 97min

Busan’s representative director JEON Soo-il brings his 8th full feature film. It’s set around ‘Pink’, a shabby bar, to capture and depict in detail several low lives in the director’s characteristic silent style. Even with the sti...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Uzbekistan,Korea
• 2011
• 88min

Korean-Uzbek Stas was once a taekwondo master and is a popular resident in hisneighborhood. But when he begins to dabble in drug use with his friends, he heads down a path that will cost him everything he values. His friends begin...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2011
• 91min

This is the sixth feature film by Naomi Kawase, who is gaining international recognition as a documentary as well as feature filmmaker. Set in a historical Japanese city where the excavation of ancient ruins is under way, a myster...

Midnight Passion

• Japan
• 2011
• 109min

Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture ? a port town surrounded by ocean on the tip of Honshu island. Gu is born in Japan of Korean ancestry and living life as a high school dropout working part time jobs. Gu constantly gets caught u...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2011
• 94min

Logo II. Fifteen years after Bruce McDonald’s cult smash [Hard Core Logo], the director introduces us to rock star Care Failure, who claims to channel the spirit of Joe Dick, deceased star of the first film. Bruce tries desperatel...