A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2010
• 82min

Ebrahim Foruzesh’s black comedy about the rituals of life and death pivots on Hassan, who has been dreaming of dying every night and so goes into the city and gets himself a tombstone. The villagers and even his wife, Zivar, make ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2010
• 95min

A Japanese man takes out a 20-year-old phone card. Inside it, there are pictures of 4 women. The film sets out in search of these women and shows their past and present. In 1989, the Korean branch of Japanese company, Sumida sent ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2010
• 79min

This film, by a promising new media artist, PARK Kyung-keun, begins with a boy’s letter to his grandfather who ran a junkyard during the Japanese colonial period. In order to find the reason of the nightmare that has oppressed him...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2010
• 111min

Jahyo, a senior in high school, loses his virginity to his classmate while his friend, Soo-in, falls for a teacher. [Plum Blossom] follows the struggles of these teenagers through the pain of love and growth. Even in college, the ...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2010
• 80min

Cheburashka is a bear-like character created by Russian writer Eduard Uspensky in 1965, later made into a hugely popular animated series from 1969 that went on to gain popularity in Europe and Japan. He is now an nationally well-k...

World Cinema

• Republic of South Africa
• 2010
• 106min

A Zimbabwean man is found dead in a small, obscure town in South Africa and three detectives from the Scorpions Investigating Unit are deployed. A corrupt local policeman is suspected according to a local cleric’s testimony, but h...

World Cinema

• UK,Australia
• 2010
• 105min

Based on a true story that recently shocked the world, it tells the story of a social worker from Nottingham named Margaret Humphreys, who exposed the British government scandal that sent young children to Australia by force. Marg...

Flash Forward

• Hungary
• 2010
• 89min

This drama revolves around a Hungarian and a Chinese man who meet on business. The Hungarian man is a real estate agent in charge of selling a suburban storage building where the Chinese man lives, where he works as a guard. With ...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2010
• 119min

A remote Siberian village with the hopeless name ′Edge′. Here the exiled ′traitors of the Motherland′ fell trees, and an old steam locomotive carrying timber runs between the regional center and dense taiga. This is the place whe...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SriLanka
• 2010
• 88min

The camera slowly follows the sound of heavy breathing from off-screen, which leads to a bleak scene of a woman, a mother, lying on an oversized bed groaning in pain, and a son sleeping beside her. This first scene, composed withi...