Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 105min

Photographer Joon returns home to be with his father who is paralyzed. He meets a mysterious woman named Theresa by chance and realizes the ghost of his dead sister is inside her. While solving the problem, hidden family secrets s...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2009
• 131min

[Sunflower] won the FIPRESCI award at the 5th Pusan International Film Festival. It was only the beginning. [Go] received the Best Director award at the Japanese Academy Awards. Then, [Crying out Love in the Center of the World] t...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2009
• 120min

A romantic comedy featuring six couples and their ex(s) during the period between Christmas and St. Valentine’s day. Many cases are shown in the film: a policeman stalking his ex-girlfriend, a divorce judge who faces a divorce of ...

World Cinema

• Finland
• 2009
• 74min

When the needed becomes the needy, faith can take on transcendental meaning. Leila is a convict freshly released from prison after only 12 years of a life sentence for murder. With few options open to her, she takes a job as an as...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 104min

Two grown-up women meet each other. They were middle school classmates. Now, one is working as a secretary of a major corporation, and the other is unemployed who was fired from her job. As they stay in one room, they recognize th...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2009
• 95min

Suffering from an unknown illness, Amor returns home from the city, but the village doctors are at a loss for what to do. At the same time, the livestock of the village falls to death and eventually people as well. A witch doctor ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2009
• 112min

Born between a Taiwanese mother and French Father, Yang-yang never once had the chance to see her father. Though she is a native Taiwanese who never once experienced French culture, her close resemblance to her father makes her as...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2009
• 97min

Named best film at the 2009 Moscow International Film Festival, [Pete on the Way to Heaven] pivots on a young, somewhat mentally impaired man who lives his life pretending to be a local traffic cop. Everyone in town humors him in ...

World Cinema

• France,Canada
• 2009
• 105min

Living in Canada, Audrey visits her parent’s house when she comes to her homeland, France. Audrey tries to be likened by her strict and picky mother, but it isn’t easy to resolve tension and conflicts between them. Finding an old ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,France,Belgium,Netherlands
• 2009
• 141min

A Taiwanese filmmaker (Lee Kang-Sheng) makes a film based on the myth of Salome at the Louvre. Even though he speaks neither French nor English, he insists on giving the part of King Herod to the French actor Antoine (Jean-Pierre ...