Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2010
• 96min

Mi-jin, 23-year-old woman, moves to Yeosu with her baby. She has a contract to work as a surrogate mother while also working at a bar, but she changes her mind and flees with her baby after she delivers it. She encounters Chulsu, ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Turkey,Switzerland,France
• 2010
• 114min

[Yol] is the first Turkish film that won the Palm d’or at Cannes Film Festival and directed by the master Yilmaz Guney and ?arif Goren. Released from the harsh Turkish prison, five men are heading for their home. However, what awa...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2010
• 102min

In 2025, Zebra city is a model metropolis that undertakes experimental political reform. One of the experiments is ‘Zebra Time’. At 5am and 5pm for five minutes, basically, for ten minutes each and every day, the law permits any a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2010
• 87min

Watching and writing. The camera and the pen. These are normally male-dominated areas. [Zoom Hunting], however, puts both into the hands of women-two sisters. The film begins with photographer Ruyi telling her elder sister and nov...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia
• 2009
• 80min

15 short films directed by 15 filmmakers in Malaysia. The filmmakers represent the core of what is known internationally as the Malaysian ‘New Wave.’ The cast consists of numerous celebrities, actors, and even high profile and oft...

World Cinema

• Korea,France
• 2009
• 92min

“I tried to transfer at the present, the emotions of a little girl facing these extraordinary incidents; abandonment and adoption. The year at the orphanage is the time and place of an intervening period between two lives: a life ...

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...

Wide Angle

• Thailand
• 2009
• 18min

Gala Presentation

• Korea
• 2009
• 86min

July, 1950. The country is astir with the Korean War, but things in Bawui-gol, a small mountain village, go on as normal. Once in a while they hear news about the war through people who go into town. But, as the American army gets...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2009
• 77min

Reza, an ordinary factory worker, must return his wife’s dowry when they get a divorce. Because of problems in their marriage, his wife Zari wants a divorce. After doing everything he can to try to scrounge up the money, he must m...