Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2011
• 104min

Rumpoey, daughter of the town’s richest and most powerful man, and Dum, a son of a poor farmer, reunite in the city years after having been apart as children. They are madly in love but the plot takes a tragic turn when Dum’s fath...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2011
• 88min

After his father disappears in a fishing accident, 20-year-old Filippo operates a small hostel with his mother in a small island in Southern Italy. Grandfather Ernesto stubbornly maintains the life of a fisherman, while his uncle ...

World Cinema

• France
• 2011
• 95min

Frederic is a French artist living in Rome with his wife Angele, an actress. Paul, an extra, comes to Rome to play a role in a film about Resistance and he and his wife Elizabeth stay in Frederic’s apartment. As Paul and Frederic ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 123min

[The14 Amazons] tells the story of a loyal and faithful family during the Song Dynasty?a story that has been repeatedly recounted in China and Hong Kong through literature, plays, television dramas, and films for years. The sing...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2011
• 32min

Eunsil, an ethnic Korean from China, finds herself pregnant and makes up her mind to get an abortion. Conflict with a student working at the restaurant where she does throws adisturbing wrench in her plans, leading Eunsil to repli...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2011
• 100min

Here is a-tail-wagging-the-dog situation: a soldier murders an officer in India’s newly created armed forces after gaining independence from the British. The culprit is Ramachandran, a highly praised soldier due to his distinguish...

Open Cinema

• France
• 2011
• 100min

1927. The era of silent films is gone and the era of sound movies, the talkies, arrives. Hollywood silent movie star George Valentin falls for young Peppy Miller, who he meets by chance. He slowly loses his popularity because of h...

World Cinema

• Peru,Germany,Argentina
• 2011
• 107min

1982, during political unrest in Peru, Caetana is an upper class member, living in her stepfather’s vast mansion with servants. She is used to being alone, and uses her imagination to hold conversations with dead Peruvian heroes w...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 115min

Doo-su, an orphan and a minion in a smuggling ring, dreams of the high life, but is fated to live the rest of his life in the city alleys. There is no future for him, as he drifts in and out of prison for swindling passersby in th...

World Cinema

• Portugal
• 2011
• 98min

An avant-garde reconsideration of the Dracula legend, [The Baron] opens with the arrival an elementary school inspector in a remote village. According to the director, the original film version of [The Baron] was shot by a team of...