Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 117min

After two failures, Ha Kil-chong tries a new genre featuring youth. Several scenes have been censored, but it still is an important film which shows the culture of 70s college students. The film also created the famous characters ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2009
• 125min

A ′cinema verite′ style film filled with snapshots of young kids jumping in the ocean to collect junk in the slums of Baceko Philippines. These children, known as the Bakal Boys, frequently get hurt and suffer from skin irritation...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 145min

Sang-hyun, a priest working for a hospital, selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project intended to eradicate a deadly virus. However, the virus eventually takes the priest. He nearly dies, but makes a miraculou...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2009
• 111min

It is 1975, shortly after the Vietnam War, and Indonesia invades neighboring East Timor. In the small town of Balibo, five Australian reporters carry out their duties and cover the story. When they disappear, the disillusioned Rog...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2009
• 122min

The latest film from Hong Kong’s New Wave director, Ann Hui, is the story of the brutal murder of a family. What happened to the family, smiling brightly in a photograph? Along with statements from people around the family, their ...

World Cinema

• Lithuania
• 2009
• 82min

“The main engine of nowadays life is the lack of time. Everything is developing and changing at a maximum speed and we must keep up and overtake, too… But sometimes this aimless speeding makes you feel as if your life is just pass...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 150min

The hidden nightlife of ordinary people living in Manila unveils. Lovers and families’ conflicts are radically pitted against each other as they live in the night streets rampant with drugs and prostitution. The outstanding narrat...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2009
• 100min

Working at a textile factory, Li Li is diagnosed with leukemia, but she and her husband can’t afford her treatment. Upon giving up, she decides to find her first love to feel happiness before she dies. [The Weaving Girl] deals w...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 124min

In a poor village by the Manila Bay breakwater, two brothers, Buboy and Basilio, come to the city to escape from the violence at home. They meet a prostitute named Pakita and become close with her when Basilio treats her wounds. A...

World Cinema

• Mexico
• 2009
• 122min

Set in Mexico’s notorious Ciudad Juarez ? sadly known for its drug crime and the recent murders of hundreds of maquiladora, female factory workers ?, [Backyard] drapes a scathing exploration of contemporary society on the framewor...