Flash Forward

• Luxembourg,Austria
• 2009
• 91min

Shall we call it an ‘Apocalyptic version’ of [Jules et Jim], which reminds us of the visual and auditory quality of silent films? The general tone of the film is actually quite contrasting. As opposed to how Truffaut’s masterpiece...

World Cinema

• Greece,Russia,Germany,Italy
• 2009
• 125min

In [The Dust of Time], Greek master Theo Angelopoulos weaves the story of one family with 20th century history and brings the socio-political landscape of the time into relief. Typical of Angelopoulos, the film is a lyrical and vi...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2009
• 140min

“Like many young people his age, he wanted to change the world, but Dede was without a doubt the biggest idealist, dreamer and poet of us all. The one who walked taller than anyone, who rallied multi-generational crowds using his ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 105min

Winner of this year’s the best director award at Cannes. Pepping, who helps scoundrels for petty cash, lands a big gig to make money for his wedding. He is supposed to abduct a prostitute who didn’t pay her loans and teach her a l...

World Cinema

• France
• 2009
• 97min

Armand, who trades farm machines in the countryside, is a middle-aged homosexual man who is fairly popular among the group of men. When he was tired of his life, he fell in love with a teenage girl, Curly. The two fled from her pa...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2009
• 115min

This film explores how easily human life can be neglected and abandoned in a large city. Mikio and his older brother Saneo, who is mentally handicapped, live together and have just buried their father. One day, Mikio hires a hooke...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,Japan
• 2009
• 76min

Ryo, the lead singer of a band scheduled to perform in Seoul, is terrified of airplanes. So after sending the rest of the band off, he decides to take a taxi from Tokyo to Seoul. The road to Seoul is a non-stop series of surprises...

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 2009
• 99min

Returning to the country of their birth, three Korean women, all with German husbands after thirty years abroad, discover their homeland is no longer their home. Retreating to the comforts of a German ghetto?complete with tiled ro...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SriLanka,France
• 2009
• 85min

A modern myth or legend. Director Vimukthi Jayasundara interprets current Sri Lanka by comparing it to mythology. Halfway through the film, two fishermen discuss a legend about two kinds who execute all the young men in their coun...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2009
• 131min

Yakusho Koji, a popular Japanese actor who has worked with directors such as Imamura Shohei, Suo Masayuki, and Kurosawa Kiyoshi, is the director and an actor in this film. Koji’s debut film brings a fantastic, comical, and somehow...