A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2009
• 122min

This is a film about a director who falls in love with an actress he has discovered. However, it is not merely a story about love and jealousy, for it also describes many things about the film industry. Acclaimed director Aniket p...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2009
• 8min

This film follows a girl with a magic book who one day accidentally leaves it open. The contents of the book become lost. She decides to go on a journey to seek for new knowledge and dreams to fill the book. During the journey sh...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 106min

Through an indigent family living a destitute life, he reveals the difficulties of postwar Korean society. Accountant clerk Chul-Ho, his disabled vet brother and the rest of the family tries to cope with harsh reality only to see ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 45min

A controversial documentary that follows the life of a gay stripper named Oliver. Oliver regards himself as an artist in pursuit of beauty but in fact is a victim of prostitution. Though his family does not agree with Oliver’s way...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 73min

On the night of June 30, 2007, cashiers and salespeople of Homever, a superstore, started to fight for their rights and to disclose issues regarding contract-worker protection laws. This was not only the first in-house picketing a...

Flash Forward

• Israel
• 2009
• 92min

This is a problematic film that calls to attention the certain energy that exists in Israeli films such as [Or], [Jellyfish], [Waltz with Bashir], which have suddenly rose to their rank during this decade. It lacks nothing as a te...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2009
• 99min

Ah Long, a former motorcycle racer who was injured while running from the police, tries to put his life back together after being released from jail. Estranged from his wife and son, he decides to take a chance at the race track o...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2009
• 9min

A washerman struggles with an evil scarecrow who tries to snatch kite from his son.

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2009
• 127min

Soma, a young doctor from Tokyo keeps sighing when heading toward a remote rural village where he is assigned an internship. He is not wrong to feel that he is overqualified for the job. However Ino, an excellent old doctor in the...

World Cinema

• United States,Colombia
• 2009
• 82min

Loosely based on true events, [Entre Nos] is a study in the inherent resilience of humanity and one woman’s ferocious battle to keep her family together. It is also casts a cold eye on the quest for the so-called American Dream an...