Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2011
• 93min

[Eagle of Wild Field] is Im Kwon-taek’s Manchurian Western of twisted desire, bloody revenge and the cathartic actions. A man’s family’s been slaughtered in his absence by Japanese soldiers and he spends 20 years planning his reve...

Flash Forward

• Israel
• 2011
• 86min

After many years apart, a sensitive teen, Libby, is sent to live with her father, Shaul, in Israel. She soon discovers that her father is an irresponsible eccentric who is homeless. He hatches a scheme to pass as refugees to obtai...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2011
• 104min

Jeju Island. A favorite vacation spot and a place to be remembered. Despite this, an announcement is made that a navy base will be built at KangJung, a little village on the terrific island. Villagers resistant to this happening ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2011
• 98min

Rek and Kong start sneaking into empty homes and vicariously experiencing the homeowner’s lives. They are not stealing anything; they’re simply borrowing the homeowners’ homes, possessions and lives. Then one day, they come face t...

World Cinema

• Peru,Venezuela,Spain
• 2010
• 83min

Clemente, a pawnbroker, is Sofia’s hope to avoid solitude. Being his neighbor and a single woman, she spends her days as an October worshipper of the Lord of the Miracles. One day, Clemente is left with a newborn baby.

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2010
• 140min

Here is a star-studded samurai film: Miike Takashi’s remake of Kudo Eiichi’s 1963 classic of the same name. Set during the era of the Shoguns, thirteen assassins gather around Shinzaemon upon the request of Doi, the Shogun’s close...

Midnight Passion

• France
• 2010
• 115min

After a long, brutal and successful career in the Marseille mafia, Charly Mattei has gone straight. For three years, he has lived a quiet life devoted to his wife and two young children. Then, one winter morning, he is presumed de...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2010
• 124min

A drama about contemporary Poles whose fates interweave in a monumental moment in time. The ‘moment’ refers to an actual event when following the death of the Pope, millions of people manifested their spiritual union by turning of...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2010
• 101min

A film about the love, desire, and despair of people who live in the magnificent and bustling city of Beijing. Li Jia, is a know-it-all that pursues only love, and a girl who roams the streets in rebellion against her father, Zhi ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2010
• 85min

[Masquerade] is directed by Mun Jeong-hyun whose previous piece on the history of Korean war, Grandmother’s Flower earned much attention from the audience. It’s his fourth piece and a documentary which explores the story of a rape...