Special Programs in Focus

• Czech Republic
• 2010
• 145min

Czechoslovakia, 1982. The totalitarian regime seems invincible. Antonin, a member of the secret police, is full of unfocused rage and everything around him - his work and family life - wears him down and bores him. He becomes fixa...

World Cinema

• Italy,Germany,Switzerland
• 2010
• 88min

A remote village perched on the hills of Calabria, southern Italy. An old goat herder collects dust from the church floor and drinks it in his water every day, believing it will cure his illness. One day, the old man passes and a ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2010
• 102min

After bed-ridden father died, a boy comes to live with his estranged mother. Having difficulties to adapt himself with new life, he spends time with a petty thief. One night, as the boy starts to dream about his elder brother who ...

New Currents

• China
• 2010
• 112min

[The Old Donkey] recollects the meaning of land to an older generation of Chinese who lived through rough patches of history. 84-year-old rural villager Old Ma is also called “Old Donkey” for his habit of riding a donkey at all ti...

Wide Angle

• Switzerland
• 2010
• 83min

This documentary, co-directed by Pascal Hofmann and Benny Jaberg, depicts the eventful life of Daniel Schmid, a great Swiss director who left behind remarkable legacy of films and operas. The stories in this documentary range from...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2010
• 29min

One summer day, a suspect and two detectives visit a crime scene. Their relationship is turned upside down as they go over the criminal act in preparation for the next day′s investigation. A satire on the weak, who are inevitably ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2010
• 103min

The film is the latest work by Pang Ho-cheung, one of the most active directors in the contemporary Hong Kong film industry. As Hong Kong started banning smoking, even outside buildings, in 2007, smokers were forced into the backs...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2010
• 128min

In 1976, a great earthquake tore apart Tangshan, China. The event also broke a family into pieces when, trying to save his children, a father lost his life. Required to choose which to save between her daughter and son, both burie...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2010
• 116min

In this film, Jimi Kim plays Jungsook in her own version of [Madam Freedom]. She portrays a naive, but passionate housewife who falls into a dangerous affair. In her 13th year of marriage, Jungsook meets a debauched Jang Jaesuk at...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2010
• 98min

[Dance Marathon], a new comer from Poland, the king of Eastern European classics, is a comedy involving a crowd that has gathered for a dance competition in a provincial town of Dabie. The crowd includes a priest, a nun, a mother ...