A Window on Asian Cinema

• Palestine,Netherlands,United Arab Emirates,United States
• 2011
• 78min

Reasons for hopeless love vary from era to era, and from society to society. Sometimes love cannot be acted upon or expressed because of social or political reasons. Such cases are where love stories morph into social dramas. Qa...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2011
• 90min

Director Rainier and producer Bingbong are young guys who want to make an independent film to surprise the world with their global success. An invitation to an international film festival goes right to a colleague’s head, much to ...

Flash Forward

• Canada
• 2011
• 91min

The film begins with a one-night stand between a man and a woman who meet in a club. Upon waking up in the middle of the night at the man’s place, the two begin to talk and gradually get to know each other, but they part after mom...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2011
• 118min

[Hankyu Railway - A 15-Minute Miracle] sounds vaguely archaic, perhaps suggesting a collection of weak cliches made to promote the Kansai train network, funded by the local council. Surprisingly, this film blurs any prejudgements ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2011
• 126min

Miike Takashi’s films are undeniably controversial, violent, and gory, and despite this he is regarded by many as Japan’s definitive contemporary director. Since his 1998 inclusion on Time magazine’s list of most promising non-Eng...

World Cinema

• Luxembourg,Belgium,Austria
• 2011
• 93min

Ferdinand is a shy and withdrawn 40 year old man who loves music. He has worked for years taking care of the fish in the ‘Fish Land’ aquarium in the global leisure town ‘Worlds Apart’. Then one day, ‘Fish Land’ must close for six ...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2011
• 100min

Decades of rumour and unconfirmed sightings have long fuelled the idea, that the Tasmanian Tiger ? said to be extinct since 1936 ? is still surviving in the southern wilderness. Working from a popular novel, scriptwriter Alison Ad...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 81min

The shabby and desperate daily lives of three families unfold against the backdrop of Haebangchon village, where people from North Korea who have crossed the border to the South live together. Their hopefulness is buried by the in...

World Cinema

• Portugal
• 2011
• 139min

[Blood of my Blood] is the story of a family that lives in the slums of Lisbon. The daily lives of a son(or nephew) that works for a drug cartel, a daughter who is in love with a married man, a mother who is having an affair with ...

Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 2011
• 204min

After Thakur’s family is viciously murdered by a group of bandits he hires two outlaws Veeru and Jai for the exact revenge. Although they lead lives of theft and deceit, their bravery and righteousness is trustworthy to Thakur’s...