World Cinema

• United States
• 2009
• 103min

“I realized that the only way we can begin to solve the world’s problems is to solve our own. And the key thing that goes missing, even in the most intimate relationships, is a true and constant accounting of who we were once, how...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2009
• 97min

Hiroko has been mostly unlucky. Always at the bottom of her class when young, and close to a loser at the moment, she expects a great reversal in her life. She is set to say goodbye forever to her pathetic past on the day of her w...

Open Cinema

• India
• 2009
• 164min

Love can happen to anyone and once it does it engulfs us into it completely and gives us those miraculous experiences that only love can yield. This is what happened to Surinder Sahni - an honest man working for Punjab Power, lead...

Gala Presentation

• Japan
• 2009
• 93min

Matsumoto Hitoshi’s second film [Symbol] (2009) follows a popular and charismatic comedian in Japan and is similar to [Dai Nipponjin] (2007), and [Big Man Japan] (American Version). It has brilliant wit and shows the work of a sur...

World Cinema

• UK,Bahamas
• 2009
• 85min

The film features the fantastic 7,000 km journey of a sea turtle to lay eggs on shore where she was born. It is the first feature film about this type of nature to be filmed in 3D entirely and is a meaningful work supported by UNE...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2009
• 110min

The look of Na-nan, who is lost between work and love, became Jang Jinyung’s characteristic expression, and creates a portrait of the women of this generation. The crazy slice of life of a 29-year-old and her friends is a portraya...

World Cinema

• Argentina
• 2009
• 106min

Buenos Aires’ 1994 AMIA bombing provides the backdrop for this story of a young woman with Down syndrome and her quest for understanding in its aftermath. That July morning is a normal one for Anita and her mother at their small s...

Wide Angle

• Portugal
• 2009
• 15min

A young man under house arrest ponders his life and the limits of freedom. Wiling away the days by tattooing and sparring with local kids through his window, Mauro’s confined space and time lend themselves to wishful thinking that...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2009
• 110min

What′s common among Tubalu in the South Pacific, Venice, Italy, and Shishmaref, Alaska? This film displays the normal days of the three islands vividly: the laid back life style of the Tuvaluans, life on the water in artistic Veni...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2009
• 169min

At eighty-four years of age, Master Cai is the last great Naxi folk musician on the north shore of the Jinsha River. He depends on his mentally-disabled son for a living. With little time left together, the father and son relation...