A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia,Japan
• 2010
• 84min

Like Woo Ming-Jin’s earlier movies, this was inspired by a newspaper story ? this time, a story about a Malaysian-Chinese woman who used Burmese and Indonesian economic migrants to breed babies which she would sell. However, the f...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2010
• 82min

What kind of image do you think Taipei conveys? Director Hsiao Ya-chuan portrays the city as a place where even the barter trade system can spur an exchange of emotions, and this is the motif of the film. Doris and her sister Jos...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2010
• 88min

This is the story of three residents of the same suburban town over the course of one seemingly perfect autumn day. Seen through a prism of sunlight and glittering leaves, the film peers deep into the private lives of its characte...

World Cinema

• Argentina
• 2010
• 84min

A watchmaker Lucio is hopelessly in love with his unstable wife Diana. Being infertile, she is interested in adopting a dog, and becomes close to Standle, who is an expert on it. Standle suggests her to undergo psychotherapy on th...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan,Canada
• 2010
• 109min

After her death, mother left Ray with a house, troubled siblings, a granny who cannot speak English and a cat. After moved in with his family, Ray is dying to know why his Japanese Granny sighs every time she uses toilet. In addit...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2010
• 142min

[The Earth] is a representative literary film based on Park Kyung-ri’s epic novel, and features voice recordings done by Jimi Kim herself for the first time since Shin Sang-ok’s [Prince Daewon] in 1968. She played a role of the gr...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2010
• 73min

A documentary style film about a woman and her daughter who live under a truck because they have no home. Unlike the stereotypical homeless bum, Norah is a tough woman who will do anything to make money to raise her daughter Sarah...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2010
• 100min

Produced by and starring Jimi Kim, [Ticket] is an ensemble that realistically captures the anger and pain suffered by women working in suburban call-girl cafes. It is a film that transcends the reach of similar subject matters and...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2010
• 12min

A family is confused by a dying grandmother′s comment. Only the granddaughter understands and quietly holds her hand. A touching portrait of the reconciliation between a grandmother who had been concerned about her granddaughter′s...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2010
• 116min

[Boys into the Night] is director Yoon Sung-hyun’s feature debut, about three friends in a boys’ high school. When a student dies, his father starts investigating how and why it happened. One of the three friends is the perpetrato...