Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 81min

This film follows a trip to Chuncheon. It is the second feature from director Jeon Kye Soo and an interesting repetition of Hong Sangsoo’s film, and shows the cinematic impulse of Jeon Kye Soo. He is indeed an audacious director. ...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2009
• 27min

With an eye to helping her mother out of desperate financial straits, Rachel resorts to a secretive and unusual way to find some cash. Despite the fact that her husband Kyle is the CEO of a pharmaceutical company she carries on un...

Special Programs in Focus

• United States
• 2009
• 113min

Joe, a naive youngster from Texas, blindly arrives in New York to earn money by selling himself to women. As one of the major works by the great master John Schlesinger, this film touched the heartstrings of audiences all over the...

World Cinema

• Poland,Sweden
• 2009
• 107min

The road movie as a metaphor often feels rote, but in the hands of skilled filmmakers, it can also be heartbreaking, humorous, inspiring, and bittersweet. Boleslaw Pawica and Jarek Szoda make their feature debut with this road mov...

Flash Forward

• Sweden,Taiwan
• 2009
• 88min

Viktor visits Taiwan with his mother Kicki. He secretly hopes to meet the father he has never seen, but his mother’s heart is completely elsewhere. Conflicts arise between them, and as Viktor gets closer with his Taiwanese friend ...

World Cinema

• Brazil,France
• 2009
• 95min

A 16-year-boy is into Bob Dylan so much he is called “Mr. Tambourine”. He spends most of his time surfing the internet like other teens while listening to the songs of Mr. Folk. In the virtual world, his eyes and mind has been sei...

New Currents

• Malaysia
• 2009
• 76min

A story about a careless mother and a lonely, insecure daughter. This film, directed by Charlotte Lim, explores a multi-layered relationship that exists between a mother and daughter. Eighteen-year-old Faye is always on the edge b...

World Cinema

• Belgium,Canada
• 2009
• 86min

Bruno and Marie live in Morocco with their children. Bruno called the youngest child, Louis, and tells him that he is going to commit suicide soon but asks him to keep it a secret. Louis stutters, and Marie is getting tired of her...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 110min

Enrolling into a commercial high school in Busan, Jjang-gu joins a school gangster club called ‘Monster’. It wasn’t something he volunteered for; rather, it was natural to join such a club at that time. Like a rite of passage, he ...

Closing Film

• China
• 2009
• 120min

China, 1942. The Chinese leaders acting as Japanese puppets are assassinated one after another. In order to catch the “phantom”, the spy within the intelligence sector, the Japanese create a false code and confines the only five p...