Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 30min

Jan 17 2009, 3am. Hyeok-gun is waiting for Cha-kyeong. Jun 17 2009, 3am again. He is still waiting for her. Well aware of the meaninglessness of waiting, he thinks there is nothing to do; nothing else for it but to wait. While wai...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2009
• 98min

After her divorce, Maria lives alone but strongly as a teacher at a night school. She meets a new boyfriend when she goes to a movie and has a sweet time together. When she gets unexpectedly pregnant, she breaks up with him after ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2009
• 84min

This is a film portraying a couple’s short romance and subsequent farewell. It’s a work long dreamed of by Kobayashi Masahiro, who is said to represent Japanese independent cinema. A man who has left Japan and is wandering around ...

World Cinema

• France
• 2009
• 100min

[Chocolat] catapulted Claire Denis onto the world cinema stage, a film about a young woman recalling her coming-of-age in Africa. With [White Material], Denis returns to the land of her childhood, this time tackling much tougher l...

Open Cinema

• Poland
• 2009
• 95min

Like Romania’s defining Nicolae Ceausescu years and Ireland’s Troubles, Poland’s Solidarity movement has cast a lasting shadow on the country and had an indelible impact. Set during the early 1980s when Solidarity was still simply...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2009
• 44min

The opening scene starts with piece of Chador fabric flapping in the wind. Iranian women trapped under the Chador and virginity issue that traps Iranian women once again is a painful and paradoxical side of Iran. The reality, wher...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 29min

There is a woman. All her life, she has blamed her bad breath for all her pain and bad luck. And there is a man. He talks too much, making troubles here and there. These two people come to fall in love with each other. Soon, howev...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 32min

This graduation work of director Ha Kil-chong from UCLA was filmed in 16mm. Seemingly influenced by the New York avant-garde in the 60s, the film mainly talks with ‘death.’ Pitifully, the sound of this surrealistic film, which may...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 115min

This is a sequel to [The March of Fools]. The famous scene where Byung-tae, who just came back to school from his military duty, plays for high stakes to hold on to Young-ja who is about to be engaged. The scene is aa homage to [T...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2009
• 108min

Even without a keen knowledge of the German film industry, the subtle wit and delicate satire of Andreas Dresen’s tale of an alcoholic actor working extra hard for his pay check when a producer double casts his role will be instan...