A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iraq
• 2010
• 90min

A unique road movie made in the first-person perspective, [Mandoo] tells a story of Sheelan, an Iraqi doctor and defector to Sweden who returns to Iraq 20 years after she fled the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. Her plan to take Sharif...

Gala Presentation

• Korea,Hong Kong,China,United States
• 2010
• 115min

A woman imprisoned after killing her husband is allowed her release. On her way to Seattle, a man gets on the same bus. Introducing himself as a fellow Korean, he borrows the bus fare from her and leaves his watch behind. When th...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2010
• 94min

The Malavoglias are a family of fishermen, but the eldest son Antonio wants to pursue a career in songwriting and spends his time listening to music. His older sister falls in love with a Moroccan illegal immigrant that Antonio sa...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2010
• 96min

Being tired of business failures and twisted matters, a film producer takes a trip to Donghae. As he encounters a charming woman in her 20’s working at the hotel where he is staying, they go around the town together for a gourmet ...

New Currents

• China
• 2010
• 120min

A cinema about cinema, [My Spectacular Theatre] grants viewers a warm and moving emotion. A pirated DVD dealer, Chen Yu, meets the people who change his life forever when he enters a theater for the blind while running from police...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2010
• 95min

18-year-old En is thrown into confusion while grappling with his first love with the girl next door, the sudden death of his grandfather, his Alzheimer’s-suffering grandmother and his mom’s new boyfriend. En also happens to know t...

World Cinema

• Sweden,Poland
• 2010
• 130min

A young woman and her daughter leave their country, Belarus, to avoid the danger of child trafficking and settle in a refugee camp in Sweden. But, the camp is not the comfortable place they were expecting and they are still threat...

World Cinema

• Argentina,Spain
• 2010
• 123min

Set during Argentina′s 2001 political and economic crisis, an idyllic life goes on as usual in a gated community of luxurious villas. Families seem to continue a picture perfect life separated from reality but on the inside, each ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Czech Republic
• 2010
• 97min

Six long-time friends in their thirties have moved to Prague from a small town. After reuniting at a party, they realize what they don’t want in life, but have not found what they want. They decide to live together in a farmhouse ...

World Cinema

• France,Algeria,Belgium,Tunisie
• 2010
• 131min

Set in the 1920s’ colonial Algeria, three brothers Said, Messaoud and Abdelkader witness their father get stripped of his land ownership by French soldiers. 20 years on, a demonstration demanding independence from France breaks ou...