World Cinema

• Poland
• 2009
• 75min

Animator Piotr Dumala’s live action debut is an amazing feat of technological art as well as an intense exploration of loss. Dumala is renowned for his meticulous and vivid animations, and that transfers seamlessly to real space a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2009
• 94min

Working at a supermarket, Junwei secretly loves his colleague, Surien. One night while working together with her, his friend, Sanshui, returns to the supermarket for revenge because his winning lottery ticket has been canceled due...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2009
• 84min

Andrzej Wajda turns his camera toward the subject of death in his latest film, [Sweet Rush], a triptych that connects an adaptation of a short story by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (a Wajda favorite), a mini-documentary about making the ...

Midnight Passion

• Canada
• 2009
• 93min

In the claustrophobic confines of a jail cell, an inmate is discovered hanged. His three cellmates attempt to save him, but are too late. The three cellmates are interviewed separately in order to determine the progression of even...

World Cinema

• Slovenia,Germany,Serbia,Croatia
• 2009
• 90min

A young woman willing to go to any lengths for status and wealth gets more than she bargained for while working as a prostitute. Coming across as an average English student, Aleksandra moves from her dead-end industrial hometown t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy
• 2009
• 113min

Women are being murdered in the same way as the serial killings that took place in Torino, seventeen years ago. There were paper animal shapes left at the scene in the past, and the case was closed when a ‘giallo’ writer named Vin...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2009
• 128min

Ida fell love with Mussolini at first sight, and she actively supports Mussolini with her socialistic daily paper ‘Avanti’. After becoming right wing, she commits all her fortune to establish ‘Popolo d’Italia’, the predecessor of ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 90min

The director, who admired Che Guevara, was preparing for a melodrama based in Cuba when he came across a story about the Chosun people who were sent to Cuba and forced to live there 100 years ago. He follows the lives of the desce...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2009
• 82min

How does each of us watch movies and media? And how does that change from generation to generation? In a humorous, eye-opening documentary that spans the globe, the filmmaking father-daughter duo visit cinematic landmarks?Fellini’...

Flash Forward

• Canada,United States
• 2009
• 65min

This is a liberal and experimental debut film based on the famous short stories [Winesburg, Ohio] by Sherwood Anderson, a pioneer in American literature following Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway. As the subheading of the translati...