Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2009
• 95min

Khan Kluay is an elephant of King Naresuan the Great. Shaba Kaew, his beloved one, keeps a secret that she is pregnant. He must face three properties that belong to him - sacrifice, courage and stable love deep in his heart - to s...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 89min

A brother and sister trek over mountains, cross rivers, and walk over a bridge between cliffs to and from school. After school, they take care of pigs and their ill grandfather in bed. At night they dine with their older brother a...

Midnight Passion

• Australia
• 2009
• 89min

In a desert fishing town, happily married Rob and Jess have been trying to have a baby for three long years and she is becoming desperate. In a drunken mistake, she sleeps with Evan, a young stranger come to town whose interest in...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan
• 2009
• 80min

Yermek Tursunov, who made a name for himself as a reporter and scenario writer, now makes his dazzling directorial debut. The film takes place in the ancient times when people could still understand and communicate with animals an...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 132min

A man appears to a female reporter and claims he is the famous kidnapper that has the world astir and promises to turn himself in if she listens to his story. Though she is suspicious of him, she starts to fall more and more into ...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2009
• 95min

“As a young man growing up in Alberta, I related immediately to Cole’s plight of wanting to build a better life for himself. His sense of entrapment in the town, his obligations to his family, to his history, to the family busines...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2009
• 127min

This story follows one man and three women. Kutty Srank has relationships with three different women. According to testimony of three women, the true identity of Kutty Srank is different from each other but the same in his trustwo...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2009
• 118min

This documentary reviews and summarizes the development of homosexuality as an issue in the past thirty years in China. We interviewed thirty prominent figures in the LGBT community, who have experienced the sea changes of views a...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2009
• 95min

“We didn’t invite any celebrities. The authors of the [Crush] are friends we love. And we got a chance to get together and to be a little naughty. The rules were simple: each director was bound not only by the common topic and the...

Midnight Passion

• Japan
• 2009
• 133min

Several months have passed since the end of the first episode. Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as ‘The Army of Killers.’ The...