Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 115min

The nickname of Yeon-shil, the lover of Dong-il, is “black hair.” She’s been suffering since she gave a handle to Manho, one of Dong-il’s staff. When Dong-il discovers this he repells Yeon-shil and puts a big scar on her face. Thi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2009
• 109min

There was a period between the 1920’s and 30’s in Japan when individualistic literature was denied and proletariat novels dealing with socialism and communism were on the rise. The classic masterpiece representative of this prolet...

Special Programs in Focus

• Malaysia
• 2009
• 95min

Malaysia’s first 3-D animated feature film has now arrived. Starring in the film are Upin & Ipin, the famous twins from their self-titled mini-series that has won hearts of Malaysians worldwide. This film is an event, and fun for ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 95min

A sister looking for her runaway younger sister, an animator wandering after leaving work, a reporter, and people who work on a highway rest area are featured in this film. Director Kim Jeong shows various frames materialized by t...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 104min

2003, Song Du-yul, a philosophy professor, decided to go back to his homeland after spending thirty-seven years in Germany. Within a week after crossing the border, his reputation fell from a respected global political figure to a...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 121min

In Korean culture, the term ‘three generations’ was treated with much meaning. It signifies the change of the history and at the same time, the origin of an unchanging Korean society and culture. Director Park Dong-hoon took three...

World Cinema

• France
• 2009
• 90min

Daniel works as a handyman in a newly rising building, and he sleeps there. Due to his free but rebellious personality, few people pay visit to him except an unknown mentally challenged man who occasionally breaks into the buildin...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2009
• 116min

Hideo, a middle aged man, lives an ordinary life with his lover, Nozomi, an air doll. One day, while he is at work, Nozomi comes to life and steps out into the world. Working at a video shop, Nozomi falls in love with Junichi, her...

World Cinema

• France
• 2009
• 71min

Felicia is a helper taking care of Anna who is confined to a wheelchair after dementia. Enduring temperamental and unmanageable Anna, she seldom keeps contact with the outside other than the nurse Michelle who visits occasionally....

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2009
• 9min

Once upon a time, a young stranger enters a town; by accident, he is informed that a cunning tailor lives in that town; he decides to make the robber tailor egregious. This is Rashin Khayriyeh′s first animated film. She is a membe...