Special Programs in Focus

• France,Hong Kong,China
• 2009
• 108min

Costello (French star rocker and occasional actor Johnny Hallyday) goes to Macau to avenge his daughter and her family. Officially, he’s a French chef. Twenty years ago, he was a killer. Being a stranger in town, he joins forces w...

Wide Angle

• Philippines
• 2009
• 20min

Romy is an overweight, insecure security guard who courts Daisy, an ambitious and beautiful laundry woman. Romy is in love with Daisy from the start, and he tries show his affection in little ways, until one day, he is forced to d...

World Cinema

• Croatia
• 2009
• 85min

Croatia as a nation is still emerging from the shadow of war, and in [Metastases], that shadow looms long. Set in Zagreb’s criminal underworld and drug subculture, the film explores how the young post-war generation struggles to a...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 102min

This is another film which deals with the suffering of women. Eldest daughter Bun-rye is deeply distressed after she is raped by Yong-pal. To make things worse, she is treated coldly by the impotent Young-chul who received Bun-rye...

Wide Angle

• Thailand
• 2009
• 18min

World Cinema

• UK,Australia,France
• 2009
• 119min

Jane Campion returns with her first feature in six years, the gorgeously romantic, sweeping love story [Bright Star]. Campion tells the tale of the brief but intense affair between Romantic poet John Keats and seamstress Fanny Bra...

Wide Angle

• Philippines
• 2009
• 17min

A seven-year boy gets more than he bargains for when he picks up a filthy yellow ball by the creek. It′s a unique fable that follows a boy’s journey of discovery and examines a child’s inherent capacity to bounce back from life’s ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore,Malaysia
• 2009
• 107min

A tycoon, who faced the sudden death, returns as a ghost and watches his family’s confrontations unfold. His sons argue over the matter of successor and their hidden emotions among the family members including the wife and daughte...

Wide Angle

• India,Finland
• 2009
• 88min

Observing the life of a toddler boy, Bilal, who still needs a lot of care, and his blind parents is fascinating yet uneasy and dangerous. Unlike his parents, their kids are not blind. Bilal lives with his parents who do not need l...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 16min

A delivery person, Woon-jong gets into an accident at the unprotected zone while doing his job, and has to pay the other driver. Soon he is asked for another delivery job. Unfortunately, he is stuck on the Han River bridge because...