Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2009
• 92min

Detective Tom Adkins’ son Tommy Jr. disappears on a fateful Fourth of July afternoon, and in the ensuing eight years Tom’s work becomes an obsession for him. Tom attempts to solve the case of his missing son, but his efforts have ...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2009
• 86min

“We need other people. We need to see beyond our own concerns, to communicate, ask questions, share our questions?for life offers no answers and love promises nothing. Hanna’s poems become Martin’s treasure: her images cry out for...

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...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 126min

Invited to serve on the jury at a film festival, Director Ku does not care about his supposed-to-dos. Rather, chatting at parties and drinking now seem to be his all time favorites. Ku runs into an old friend who insists he come o...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2009
• 90min

Bruce, who is mentally disabled, goes on a journey to place his deceased mother’s ashes next to his late father. He believes that his father is Bruce Lee, the legendary martial artist and movie star. On the journey to America, he ...

World Cinema

• Netherlands,Belgium
• 2009
• 104min

In the last winter of World War Ⅱ, fourteen-year-old Michiel is forced to become a resistance fighter when he nurses British pilot from a crashed fighter back to health and hides him from the Germans. Caught between the father he ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2009
• 100min

Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War, a Vietnamese doctor’s diary, which was kept safe in the U.S., is returned to her family in Vietnam. [Don’t Burn] follows how a diary written during the Vietnam War survived for thirty...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 78min

Adam, the son of an American politician, raids his wife’s secret rendezvous with her Filipino lover. In a mad fury, he murders the steward who helped his wife and her lover escape and hides the body. As Filipino police start inves...

Special Programs in Focus

• Canada,Russia,Japan
• 2009
• 69min

1942. The Red Army is putting up resistance against the Germans. Nadya is shell-shocked in an air raid but soon discovers her new gift ? the ability to foresee the ‘Moments of Truth’ ? the most critical moments of future combat en...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bangladesh
• 2009
• 124min

How is the independence of women possible in conservative Islamic society? Even though ‘Bangladeshi cinema’ sounds a little strange, the question raised by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is a familiar one beyond the border. The film start...