World Cinema

• Australia
• 2009
• 100min

Hugo Weaving turns in an award-worthy performance as Kev, the troubled father of 10-year-old Chook, on a road trip after yet another violent act sends him on the run. The story hinges on the fractious relationship between the fath...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2009
• 92min

At times, the world is filled with things we cannot understand. [Ashkan, the Charmed Ring and Other Stories] reveals the complicated interlinked chains of the world that people cannot comprehend. Shahrooz and Reza try to rob a jew...

Gala Presentation

• Italy
• 2009
• 120min

Emma, from Russia, gets married into the rich, upper class Recchi family of Milano. On her father-in-law’s birthday, her son, Edoardo, and her husband, Tancredi, are both announced as co-heirs to the family fortune. As a crack beg...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Afghanistan,Japan,Korea,France
• 2009
• 90min

Taliban territory, Afghanistan. Two American soldiers crash their helicopter and get lost in the middle of the desert. The meeting of a Caucasian officer who injured his leg and an African American soldier who has no injuries at a...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy,France,Germany
• 2009
• 112min

One day a security guard is murdered at a XYY chromosome (the inclination to commit crime) research center. Franco, a blind man, who walked by and overheard two men’s conversation on that day, heads out in search for the killer wi...

Wide Angle

• Japan,Thailand
• 2009
• 70min

This film follows Anna, who contracted HIV from her ex-husband ten years ago. Anna marries Pom whom she met at a hospital. She makes her living by selling eggs at a marketplace every morning. During the day, she takes care of HIV-...

New Currents

• China
• 2009
• 85min

A story about a girl that lives with her mother’s father. Jiang Wenli is a seasoned actor who is making a directorial debut with this autobiographical story that she wrote herself. It takes place in the late seventies during the ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2009
• 107min

How are fathers remembered? This film answers the question by portraying ten stories of a father who’s remembered differently in each case, from a heart-warming point of view. Here the father doesn’t look like someone who adheres ...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2009
• 15min

An oriental legend which says every that 1,800 years, two stars can be seen near each other, and that one of them is red and the other one yellow. If someone in shifting the color watches the transforming process they will lose th...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2009
• 93min

Lu has fourteen days to live. He plots the heist of the century, a robbery that will be his last breath in the world, which Police negotiator Ho should play to its end. In the farthest asphalt jungle with the typical good-and-evil...