World Cinema
Bollywood DreamA comedy involving three Brazilian actresses who decide to go to India to break into the Bollywood Film industry. Each with a look and character they can call their own, these actresses’ debut in Bollywood isn’t a piece of a cake ...
Wide Angle
Promise of a Spring DayHomemaker Young-sook receives a call from Duk-won inviting her to a class reunion one spring day. She is preoccupied with picking up after her husband and child, so keeping an appointment is not easy. A must for mothers who spent ...
Special Programs in Focus
The DelinquentsJulian, Ramon, Juan, El Chato, Paco and Manolo are a group of low class youths wandering the impoverished streets of Madrid. To help Juan become a bullfighter, his friends steal money, and one of them eventually dies. Carlos Saura...
Wide Angle
Broken NightKyung-pyo makes a living by faking car accidents and collecting the insurance money. One evening, on his way home from a ‘job’ he crashes into a motorcycle. He finds himself ensnared by his own tricks as though karma hits him. He ...
Wide Angle
TransitorinessA divorced father lives in the remote countryside keeping bees. His son comes to him against mother’s wishes. As he paints the wall of the house with a petite decorative flowerpot, sympathy and dissatisfaction with his father fill...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The Tiger MothThis mystery film by first time director Jo Hae-won was high-praised as a quality melodrama with a solid foundation and an unquestionable delight. [The Tiger Moth] pivots on the serial killings around a mysterious beauty, Min Hwa-...
World Cinema
IllegalIt has been 8 years since Tania illegally emigrated from Russia to Belgium with her son Ivan. While living in extreme anxiety, before she knew it, she speaks Russian on the street. This causes her to be imprisoned. There, she face...
A Window on Asian Cinema
BI, Don’t Be AfraidPhan Dang Di scripted last year’s [Adrift], and he’s now turned director to continue his daringly frank exploration of sexual desires and blockages ? a topic rarely broached in earlier Vietnamese movies. The six-year-old Bi lives ...
Special Programs in Focus
ViridianaJust before taking her final vows as a nun, Viridiana visits her uncle, who finds Viridiana resembling his dead wife. While drugged her to sleep, he tried to rape her. On her way to the convent, she is held back with unexpected ne...
World Cinema
Crying OutUnable to cope with the death of his wife, a man digs up her corpse and runs off with it. His father and his son run after him. It’s a road film about three generations of men. Unlike other road films where the road itself is as i...