New Currents

• Kurdistan,Iraq
• 2009
• 81min

Director Shawkat Amin Korki uses a new method to tell the story of the tragedy of war. Inside a beat up stadium in Kirkuk, Iraq, lives many refugees trying to escape Sadam Hussein’s administration. Asu lives with his younger brot...

Wide Angle

• Afghanistan
• 2009
• 45min

Ay Nabaat is a 17 year-old girl from Afghanistan. Her life is interlocked to carpet strings and colors. Her father is engaged in a fued with another ethnic group so he decides to marry Ay Nabaat to a man who already has three wive...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2009
• 94min

[Taipei 24H] divides 24 hours in Taipei into 8 segments, giving each segment to a filmmaker to tell a Taipei story. It opens with Cheng Fen-fen′s upbeat and comedic [Share the Morning], and has Lee Kang-sheng running the final leg...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia
• 2009
• 110min

A high school in Malaysia is holding their 7th annual talent show. All the students, their families, and the teachers involved in the talent show and their stories in [Talentime] show the dark side of Malaysian society and the com...

Wide Angle

• Italy,Switzerland
• 2009
• 90min

In northeast Italy is the Tagliamento River, tucked away almost like a secret spot on the border between Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. This documentary is a poem to that river and the people of the region: spirited, storied, a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2009
• 94min

In the early Showa era there was a man who kept breaking out of jails. His name was Masayuki Suzuki. His creative ways of breaking out and transcending physical ability, made every single escape a wonder to behold. He was always s...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 110min

Each soldier tries to desert with his own reason. Among fugitives, conflicts arise, and one of the runaway soldiers is caught. Two of them call for help and try to escape. The process of desertion is a continuation of ceaseless fi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,Hong Kong
• 2009
• 112min

[Sun Spots] deals with the imperfect love of a young couple set in a small town in Southern China. A boy living in a boring life becomes a contracted gangster near the city. One day he meets a girl, who sleeps by the riverside aft...

World Cinema

• Portugal
• 2009
• 118min

Prevailing middle-class violence is the subject of this film, told in three timelines, about a cop, a victim, and a perpetrator. In the present, the cop at the scene is crushed beneath the weight of responsibility; in the future, ...

Special Programs in Focus

• United States
• 2009
• 113min

Vietnam war veteran Travis works as nighttime taxi driver nursing his wounds from the war. He sees New York as a degenerated city swarming with pimps, whores and junkies. Frequently spotted on many film masterpiece lists from all ...