Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2009
• 104min

Andy manages a computer circuit board company. His work efficiency and good connections earn him an admirable reputation. His career-minded life, however, surfs on a new tide when he meets Kinki, a new employee whose extraordinary...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2009
• 94min

This seems to be a story about ghosts, but it’s more of a mystery. In this film, forests hold a special meaning. Once upon a time, a woman was attacked by two men in a forest, and the two men were killed. No one knows who killed t...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2009
• 61min

Lee Chong Ngak (70) has cancer while his daughter, Ellen Lee, volunteers at a hospice. She videotapes her dad’s last days documenting his wishes so the son cannot stir up troubles. As Lee suffers the strength of the family is put ...

World Cinema

• Denmark
• 2009
• 100min

Draped in the conventions of a thriller, Ole Bornedal looks into the heart of small town Denmark to reveal its xenophobic, classist nature. Lars, the town reprobate, runs over Anna while driving drunk, and in a moment of clear-eye...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 90min

Bubuy (11) tries to save his beloved grandparents who have been abducted into Elementalia - a mysterious and magical land with a host of creatures from Philippines mythology. The adventure transforms Bubuy from a timid, bullied ki...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 29min

A 20-year-old Jin-seop is a sole bread-earner for his family of the ailing mother and a 5-year-old brother. Jin-seop’s plea to defer his Army draft on the basis of the only caregiver to the family was denied because his long gone ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong
• 2009
• 90min

A news unit broadcasts the defeat of a police battalion by five bank robbers, and the credibility of the police force drops to a nadir. The police vow to capture the robbers under the eye of the watchful media show. Ruthless crimi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2009
• 93min

Underneath a strip-dancer′s bodybuilder-like physique and carefree attitude lies a special gift of being able to see into people’s past lives. Giant befriends rookie cop Yee and uses his gift to track down dangerous criminals; but...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 85min

May of 2006, the Ministry of Defense enforces a moveout of Daechuri in order to make room for the expanding U.S. base. ‘Protectors’ who support the residents fighting against the action move into the village to help protect it. Pe...

Midnight Passion

• Germany
• 2009
• 99min

The mystery thriller’s action centers on the formerly successful painter David (played by internationally famous Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen) who has lost control over his life after being responsible for the death of his seven-ye...