World Cinema

• Israel
• 2009
• 92min

Last year’s autobiographical [Waltz with Bashir] looked at the Israeli-Lebanese war of 1980s as a series of remembrances wrought in animated images. With [Lebanon], Samuel Maoz examines the same conflict as seen by a group of sold...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2009
• 70min

Mr. and Mrs. Hwang start arguing about a wedding anniversary event due to differences of opinion. Mr. Hwang jokingly says he wants to go on a trip to Yang-pyong, while Mrs. Hwang wants anniversary presents from their children. Thr...

World Cinema

• SouthAfrica
• 2009
• 96min

Having separated parents, Sia is addicted to drugs. Sia comes home after treatment and rehabilitation, but she has already lost trust from Maria, her mother. Maris receives an offer to sing a chanson. When Maria went to the auditi...

World Cinema

• Austria,France,Germany
• 2009
• 99min

Lourdes has been the destination of the faithful seeking absolution, comfort, wisdom, and miracles since the late 1800s, when the Virgin Mary appeared to a miller’s daughter. Once again displaying her ability to stand back and obs...

Flash Forward

• Finland,Germany
• 2009
• 123min

A family drama about unfortunate brothers who are a Finnish version of Cain and Abel. Eighteen-year-old Rupert still suffers from the nightmares of what his abusive father made him do when he was little. To him, his father is a cu...

Wide Angle

• Nepal
• 2009
• 86min

Since the 1990s, Nepal has become a pipeline of cheap labour to the Gulf. This film shows glimpses of the migrant′s displacement and his gritty working conditions in the alien and stultifying environment of the Gulf, rarely captu...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2009
• 20min

An American riding a fashionable, professional bike whizzes down the highway. He runs into an old man of the Amis Tribe on an old-fashioned clunker. The American follows the old man into the mountains. Without the aid of a common ...

Flash Forward

• France
• 2009
• 98min

Distinguished IT expert, Paul has a happy family and wife. He participates in a conference held in a hotel in the mountains of Auvergne with his colleagues to win a project. Due to his agoraphobia, he puts himself in the hotel roo...

New Currents

• Philippines
• 2009
• 91min

The story of four men in Manila goes on in the format of an omnibus. Ariel, a con-man, living on manipulating documents and deceiving women, encounters a girl Elgin, and faces the change of heart; Boy is busy to making money for h...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 129min

A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it’s his mother’s call whether t...