World Cinema
Bibliotheque PascalThe most controversial film from Hungary this year. It is a story of a single mother who has to explain about her absence to the social workers to regain the custody of her three-year-old daughter. The extraordinary account of how...
Flash Forward
Lullaby for PiBlues-jazz singer Sam continues to make music after his wife Josephine dies. While he is watching [Some Like It Hot] in the hotel room where they first met, a woman who has just had a fight with her boyfriend runs into his bathroo...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Gesher[Gesher] tells a story of three men of modest means who refuse to stop dreaming. Impoverished day workers in the affluent Southern Iranian city of Oslouyeh, Ghobad, Jahan, and Nezam call an abandoned oil pipe their home. The belit...
Wide Angle
Funny GamesBak-soo, a film studies T.A. and Sori, a graduate student of contemporary art, are a couple. One day, Bak-soo asks Sori, “What is art? Isn’t it the same thing as playing?” Without answering his question, Sori takes him to a painti...
World Cinema
First NightA musical romantic comedy depicting the events that occur in the process of putting on Mozart’s Opera buffa, [Cosi Fan Tutte] on stage. The title translates, ‘thus do they all(women)’, mocking the fact that a woman’s heart cannot ...
Korean Cinema Today
Ordinary DaysConsisting of various episodes from the life of a man in 30’s who lost his wife and son in an accident, and a woman in her 20’s lives an agonizing life, and a teenager comes to face with the death of his grandfather. [Ordinary Day...
World Cinema
State of ViolenceBobedi, who has recently been appointed CEO of a large mining company, is celebrating his success with his friends and family, when his wife, Joy, is murdered in plain sight. Frustrated by the pace of justice, Bobedi decides to ta...
Open Cinema
The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordman[The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman] follows the journey of a mystical blade as it passes through the hands of three ambitious men. As the interwoven story unfolds, they find that the blade possesses the power to dramatically...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Wangliang’s IdealA butcher Liang married a young wife Ciao by paying her family’s debt. However, Ciao refuses to have sex with him with an excuse of preparing the college entrance exam. As his wife fails the exam, Liang expects to have a normal fa...
World Cinema
The Last Flight of FlamingoIn a remote town in Mozambique where the civil war has just ended, five UN peace keepers are killed in an explosion over a 2 month period. Remaining at the scene are their berets and severed genitals. An inquiry is launched and a ...