A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2010
• 84min

[Donor] is a realistic portrayal of the life of a strong, ambitious woman who is nonetheless unable to escape the harsh reality of poverty. Lizette makes a living by selling DVD bootlegs on the streets of Manila. Because of auth...

Midnight Passion

• Sweden,Denmark,Germany
• 2010
• 124min

Easy Money is a thriller set in the contemporary Stockholm underworld, where morals mean nothing and power and wealth everything. JW is a poor student who lives a double life within the wealthy Stockholm elite. He falls in love wi...

World Cinema

• Austria
• 2010
• 107min

This film is a sketch of 6 high school students in Brownsville, Texas. As the Star-Spangled Banner is proudly sung every day, the students dream of prosperity and freedom. But reality does not come easy. Drugs, violence, and other...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2010
• 94min

As one of Japan’s most popular comedians, poking fun at life’s daily trivialities, Yuichi Kimura also demanded attention as a director with his directorial debut film, Counterfeit, based on a real counterfeiting incident from the ...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2010
• 78min

Basharat, a talented young soccer player from Kashmir, gets an opportunity to train in Brazil, the motherland of his hero, Pele. The problem is that the Indian government refuses to issue him a passport because of his father-a for...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2010
• 24min

Sora suffers from inexplicable anxiety. Her husband keeps getting mad at her while a psychiatrist can′t give her a definite diagnosis. So she decides to spend time alone. A persistent illustration of the unstable psychology of mod...

Special Programs in Focus

• Spain
• 2010
• 88min

Juan Fernandez Soler and his lover Maria Jose de Castro hit a cyclist while driving. There are no witnesses, so they make a run for it. After reading in the paper the cyclist died, they suffer misgivings and guilt. Through a port...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2010
• 60min

The film focuses on the lives of rubbish collectors. Working from 11 in the evening till mid-day, their aim is not to leave traces but to clean those that people leave behind. Although they call themselves as raccoons, who scaveng...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Germany,Kyrgyzstan,France
• 2010
• 80min

This film is a modern version of the story of Prometheus. Yet he is not punished by God but by the greedy man. Svet-ake, meaning a man of light, is being loved by people in the village because as an electric technician, he always ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Switzerland
• 2010
• 54min

Two years after David disappeared suddenly, his family learned that he devoted himself to the Kurdish resistance force. With faith in his decision, the family only hopes to see him again. David, a Swiss, was named after the Kurdis...