Wide Angle

• Armenia,Netherlands
• 2009
• 82min

Told from the point of view of a rescued buffalo, [Border] is the story of a small town trying to find itself after the Armenian-Azeri conflict. The buffalo’s reception by the other farm animals reflects the distrust rife in the c...

World Cinema

• Iceland
• 2009
• 90min

Jacques is the surly, heart attack prone owner of a dive bar. After yet another coronary, he meets Lucas in the hospital, a homeless man despondent beyond repair. With an eye to passing on his legacy, Jacques takes Lucas under win...

Opening Film

• Korea
• 2009
• 131min

Good Morning President is an abridged version of the politics and life of three different presidents. The three are: the older President Kim Jung-ho at the end of his term, the young President Cha Ji-wook, a skillful manipulator o...

World Cinema

• France,Senegal
• 2009
• 81min

Adama, who achieved accomplishment as a scientist in France, returns to his motherland after fifteen years when he received a letter saying his grandmother was in critical condition. His grandmother and sister, Aicha, greet him, b...

World Cinema

• UK,France,Germany
• 2009
• 98min

“As a Mainland Chinese filmmaker, I think world cinema needs to move away from its focus on specific cultural identities?to go further, and to do something broader and wilder.” ? Guo Xiaolu Mei is a young Chinese woman feeling tr...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2009
• 101min

A young Australian couple adopting from India fall into a bureaucratic nightmare in Calcutta when they go to collect their daughter. While they wait for the adoption to be completed, Fiona and Ben come to learn some hard truths ab...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2009
• 112min

In 1956, a woman in a small Russian town picked up a religious icon, danced with it, and allegedly froze on the spot. She remained that way for 128 days, and the event came to be known as Zoya’s Trance. In a series of individual s...

Special Programs in Focus

• United States
• 2009
• 106min

This film portrays the well-known story of Helen Keller and her devoted teacher Anne Sullivan. Arthur Penn presented the 1962 work with moving and experimental traits, while Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke received Academy Awards for...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 116min

Here are two islands. On Bam Island located on the Han River lives Mr. Kim, a suicide attemptercastaway. On the other island is Ms. Kim’s home. She casts herself adrift for some reason. One day, she discovers the castaway. She put...

Wide Angle

• United States,Korea,France
• 2009
• 75min

[Kimjongilia], a flower known to be bred to celebrate North Korean leader Kim Jong Il′s 46th birthday,is used here ironically as the title of the film, in contrast to the stories the defectors tell. This film reveals stories told ...