World Cinema

• Luxembourg,Switzerland
• 2009
• 100min

During World War II, young men in Luxemburg were forced to choose either one of the following: to be drafted involuntarily and fight for the Nazis, or to hide inside a coal mine at the price of his parents’ sacrifice. Francois, wh...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 111min

Based on Han-gang’s famous short story, [Mongolian Spot], about an artist who falls for his vegetarian sister-in-law. He paints her body and feels the desire to take her. [Vegetarian] is a film that unites desire with art by adapt...

World Cinema

• UK,Ireland
• 2009
• 90min

Few among us would dispute that violence as a way of life is cyclical; it is something that is learned and perpetuated. And while it is easy to fall into violence, forgiveness is much more difficult. Set in Belfast in the mid ’70s...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan
• 2009
• 92min

One winter night, Gulnara meets a novelist by chance, brings him home to her house, and spends the night with him. The writer tells Gulnara an interesting, original story that he wrote and Gulnara also tells him a story in respons...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2009
• 19min

A mother undergoes a strange operation to save her seven-year-old son who is dying from a failing heart. However, she recovers from the operation only to learn of the serious consequences that she has to bear from it. [Respirator]...

Gala Presentation

• China
• 2009
• 78min

This film was designed to heal the pain of the great Sichuan earthquake. Fruit Chan and Cui Jian each produced an episode. Fruit Chan’s [1976] is the story of a tea master who returns to a tea house in Chengdu in 1976. Chengdu is ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2009
• 133min

This biopic is based on the life of female pilot Park Kyoung-won. In order to become a pilot, she moves to Japan to receive training, and falls in love. During the process, Kyoung-won plans to fly back home, and leaves everything ...

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...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2009
• 12min

After his parents die, nine-year old Chivlya is taken away by his uncle. Chivlya works as a water boy until schools open for the next term. He fluctuates between the peaceful memories of the past, and the harsh present, longing fo...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 30min

Expecting a cozy night outside of the barracks, Seok-i visits his boyfriend Min-soo who is serving in the military. However, they run into Min-soo’s mother. When his mother questions their relationship, they can only answer that t...