Wide Angle

• Korea,Japan
• 2009
• 82min

Yang Yong-hi has already told a personal tale of North Korea through her previous film [Dear Pyongyang]. This time, she introduces ‘Sona’, the daughter of her brother who moved to North Korea from Japan in the early 1970s. Through...

Open Cinema

• France
• 2009
• 107min

Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family except the father who abandoned the sisters, and she feels i...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2009
• 20min

Setareh waits for her husband Habib to return from sea. He arrives and the night ends romantically. In the morning he is gone. She goes to her mother-in-law′s house and finds his corpse, but then goes to the harbor and finds him t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2009
• 112min

The curse of Apartment number 504 is the horror and potential downfall residing within us. This is the exceptional debut of director Yoon Jong-chan, and is also where Jang’s appeal was first revealed to us as an actress in earnest...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 120min

It is said that Ha Kil-chong was not inclined to produce a sequel. The film is straightforwardly a cliche film featuring the love between a painter and a prostitute, but, he bluntly quotes many styles such as [Blow Up] by Antonion...

World Cinema

• Kenya
• 2009
• 79min

Nairobi, Kenya. Through the tall buildings and shadows of clouds, a car with a happy family is being seen. When a woman, who appears to be the mother of the family, gets out of the car, the time shifts to the present. The film sho...

World Cinema

• Greece
• 2009
• 108min

Greece now has its own version of the Romanian film [4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days]. Grabbing the grand prize at Un Certain Regard of Cannes this year, this film brought cinematic pride to Greece. There is a family. The father looks ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 96min

Following the film war after ten years, and upon hearing that his wife and daughter died after being raped by the village teacher, draws a knife on him. The village teacher is a corrupt dictator who brings suffering and misery to ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy,Germany
• 2009
• 96min

Sam, an American writer, is vacationing in Rome with his lover. While out on a walk one night, he spots a man and a woman in a scuffle and runs over, but only the woman is left. While Sam is suspicious of what he witnessed that ni...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 124min

Out of fourteen ministers taken away by the communist troop, only two comes back alive. The mystery behind their survival is at the issue here. Told through one of the survivor’s testimony, depicts images of men troubled between t...