Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2010
• 167min

The Kabuki-za, a symbol of Tokyo’s Ginza district, closes its doors for the first time in 60 years for renovation. The actors, having been secure on the stage over the decades, share stories about the theater, their individual exp...

Special Programs in Focus

• Czech Republic
• 2010
• 100min

Director Jan h?ebejk deals with the rather sensitive topic about people who cooperated with the communist government in the past. Pavel, a distinguished psychiatrist is about to receive an award for his life’s work and role as a d...

Wide Angle

• Sweden
• 2010
• 29min

One autumn day two men enjoying a luxury life unknown to a local community attempt to get a free cup of coffee. But their livelihood is lacking morality and their efforts are often unsuccessful. The film is an absurd play and winn...

Wide Angle

• France,Turkey
• 2010
• 16min

Constantinople, 1910. Too many stray dogs in the streets. The new government, influenced by an occidental model of society, calls in specialists to get rid of the dogs, before deciding, finally, to deport 30,000 of them on a deser...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2010
• 112min

The father leaves home each day bragging at the top of his lungs but crawls back home again each day, and the mother receives him silently. The oldest sister fumes at her mother for the life she is leading, while the female univer...

World Cinema

• Colombia,Republic of South Africa
• 2010
• 90min

Following the accidental death of their grandfather, amnesic and mute Marina and her cousin Jairo, a roving photographer, decide to take a trip back to their hometown. They travel in a beaten up old Renault, taking pictures as the...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,Hong Kong,China,Taiwan
• 2010
• 118min

[Reign of Assassins] is loaded with the beauty of technically designed wirework and is brimming with a surrealistic atmosphere. Also, the idea of adapting action blockbuster [Mr. and Mrs. Smith] as a Ming Dynasty-set martial arts ...

World Cinema

• Belgium,France
• 2010
• 87min

In 1972, Moriati, Massina and Maccio are young soldiers in the French Navy. They are in the middle of the open sea on a naval vessel. Their lives are strictly controlled and disciplined. While enduring tediousness and violence in ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2010
• 120min

[Winter Wanderer] is director Kwak Ji-kyun’s debut film, a melodrama involving Minwoo, his old sweetheart Da-hye, and a prostitute, Eun-young. In absence of her lover, Da-hye comes to depend on Minwoo’s old friend, Hyuntae, while ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2010
• 85min

As a series of tragedies befalls one family, behind the scenes the vastly differing socio-economic status of each member makes itself known and felt. On the day of his daughter’s wedding, Adore hears that his sister Adeling’s yo...