World Cinema

• France
• 2009
• 101min

Jean is living an unsophisticated and stable life with his lovely wife and son. One day, when he went to school to pick up his son, Jean meets his son’s homeroom teacher, ‘Mademoiselle Chambon’, and promises to be a teacher. As he...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2009
• 95min

Shinko is a little girl who has a strange curl on her forehead. She likes to daydream about the world one thousand years ago. She meets Kiiko and the two of them become engulfed in a strange incident from the past.

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2009
• 82min

In January of 2006, just outside of Las Vegas, Billy Gaines and Duncan Carroll held the inaugural World Series of Beer Pong (WSOBP). A drinking game that had been relegated to fraternity basements and local sports bars finally ha...

New Currents

• Hong Kong
• 2009
• 87min

[Dead Slowly] throws doubt and skepticism into the “relationship” between people. It depicts a man who gets into a motorcycle accident, his wife Mei, younger sister, and mother. It also tells the story of Ying, a young woman, who ...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2009
• 94min

A child with autism is often a source of tension for a family. Traveling from town to town and healer to healer across Mongolia over two years, the Isaacsons find comfort for an autistic child and each other. Part travelogue, part...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,Japan,China
• 2009
• 77min

Hong Kong’s most beloved animated characters return to the big screen for this 4th installment, in which McDull is sent to a martial arts school in China by his mother, who is eager for McDull to live up to his full potential.

Wide Angle

• India
• 2009
• 24min

Vitthal is very angry. Following the death of his grandfather, according to Hindu death rituals, Vitthal’s parents have shaved off his head. For this 12 year old child, his world has shattered.

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2009
• 94min

It could be said that the clay-animation [Mary and Max] is a film by, for, and about people who don’t “fit in,” or who don’t think they do?whatever that may entail. Based on animator Adam Elliot’s own 20-year pen-pal friendship, t...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2009
• 105min

“The film is not about casualties of war really. It′s about the people left behind to deal with life after casualties of war have gone. [The Messenger] may say a thing or two about war, but I think it ultimately deals with grief a...

World Cinema

• Sweden,Denmark,Norway
• 2009
• 82min

An all-star cast that includes Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Udo Kier, Stellan and Alexander Skarsgard lends their voices to this ambitious film four years in the making. In classic paranoid science fiction tradition comes Tarik ...