New Currents

• Tajikistan
• 2009
• 83min

This film gives one the impression that they’re watching a piece from the Theatre of the Absurd. The moment humans draw a line on the ground and declare it a borderline, the ground becomes divided between them. Though the wind, th...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2009
• 96min

As he comes to the realization that his days of service may be coming to an end, Dr. Yves Rainville starts seeking his replacement?someone to come to the once vital mining town of Normetal and serve the community like he did. Dr. ...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2009
• 111min

Miike Takashi has remade the popular TV animation series of the 70’s into a film with leading actors Sakurai Sho, Fukuda Saki, Fukada Kyoko, and others. Gan, the only son of the Takada Toy Store, and his girlfriend Ai create a tea...

Flash Forward

• Romania,Germany
• 2009
• 100min

This is a newcomer fresh from Romania, to which we have become markedly familiar since [4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days] won the Palme d’Or in the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. The title says it all. On a rainy day, two guys arrive in a...

World Cinema

• France,Switzerland
• 2009
• 98min

[IVUL] is a far-fetched, extraordinary, semi-autobiographical tale. It tells the story of a boy, Alex, that moves out onto the roof of his family manor house when his father wrongly accuses him of molesting his sister Freya. His p...

Midnight Passion

• Spain
• 2009
• 90min

While travelling by ferry to the island of El Hierro, Maria loses her young son Diego. Has he fallen overboard? Has he been abducted? Nobody knows. Diego simple vanishes. Six months later... Maria is fighting to overcome the pain ...

Special Programs in Focus

• United States
• 2009
• 95min

Wyatt and Billy take a long journey across America on motorcycles. The bikers join a lawyer named George who is sick of his life, and is subsequently murdered during the journey. The film created sensations after its release in th...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong
• 2009
• 109min

After two [Election] films, To turns his eyes once again to his trademark ? an elegantly composed action movie. Loosely based on To’s landmark film [The Mission], [Exiled] tells a story of five friends who are at the end of each o...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines,France,Germany,Netherlands
• 2009
• 77min

Raya Martin’s second film deals with Filipino colonial era. Showing the American colonization era after his first approach to the Spanish colonization era, the film mimics the news reel and silent films of the early 20th century. ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 96min

This controversial film was the first Filipino film invited to Cannes. Insiang endures abuse from her mother and betrayal from her lover. The town scamp Dado moves in with her mother to get to Insiang and eventually rapes her. But...