New Currents

• Korea
• 2010
• 127min

Jeon Seung-chul’s citizen registration number starts with 125, branding him as a North Korean defector. It is difficult to find a good job and it’s hard to get along with people at church. He is not an ex-convict or a migrant work...

World Cinema

• Republic of South Africa,Germany
• 2010
• 105min

Chanda, a 12-year-old girl lives in a dusty small South African township not far from Johannesburg. When her newborn baby sister suddenly dies and her mother becomes ill, the neighbours become distant. With the help of her aunt, h...

New Currents

• Philippines
• 2010
• 77min

Tracking a group of illegally trafficked people from Mindanao to Malaysia, Ways of the Sea focuses instead on the hopes and dreams of those trafficked as they seek to escape poverty and instead run into perilous uncertainty.

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,France,Belgium
• 2010
• 108min

In the late 1950s, people considered right wing sent to the labor camp in the middle of Gobi desert. Harsh labor, unbearable weather and the horrible shortage of the food push the people disappeared into the sandy ditch of the nig...

Flash Forward

• Denmark
• 2010
• 102min

A Danish musical based on Mozart’s famous opera buffa [Don Giovanni]. Juan is a successful artist and an infamous playboy. He is full of charisma and sexual charm, and never fails to get the woman he wants, only to dump her in the...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2010
• 88min

Paired with Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien over the years, Cinematographer Mark Lee’s camera has presented the distinctive look of the world. Slow yet never boring, indifferent yet never loosing anything, his camera captures the...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iraq,UK,France,United Arab Emirates,Egypt
• 2010
• 90min

After the fall of Saddam Hussein regime, news travels that there are surviving Kurd POWs in Southern Iraq. Grandma takes her grandson Ahmed to look for her son who has been missing since the first Gulf war. For Ahmed, the journey ...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2010
• 105min

Nicola, Salvatore, Rocco, and Franco are members of a band when they were young but now each of them are living on different jobs as math teacher, actor etc. With passion for music, they decide to attend together a music festival ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2010
• 113min

The great Kurdish musician Mamo and his sons are on their way to Arbil in Iraq for a public performance following the collapse of the Saddam Hussein Regime. However their travels do not go smoothly. The suffering that they have en...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2010
• 117min

Three children are hanging out together, re-enacting the bond from ‘San Guo Shi’ and obsessing over with Star Wars. These seemingly typical boys are all autistic. Fond of drawing, the boys gather around and work on surprisingly el...