World Cinema

• Russia
• 2009
• 105min

At a time of social and emotional distress, director Alexei Mizgirev posits that the drive to survive ? and surpass ? a gruesome situation will prevail. The years when Russia was moving toward a market economy in the late ‘90s wer...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2009

Anthony, a happy husband and father, has a bad dream about his son’s brutal murder. His nightmare materializes one day when Anthony comes back after being checked by his father, a doctor who cares obsessively for his son’s health....

World Cinema

• Iran,Australia
• 2009
• 96min

In Iran living as a female stage actress doesn’t seem to be easy, at least, this film says so. To be an artist to express herself, she has to withstand the underground life like many other youths in Iran. One day, she meets a man,...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 101min

This film is a story of May and En-seol. May returns to Seoul looking for her birth mother after 23 years of life as a Korean-American adoptee. En-seol is a taxi driver suffering from a rare cardiac disease. Following their chance...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2009
• 82min

From producer Bryan Singer and writer/director Michael Dougherty create a creepy, darkly comic celebration of the scariest night of the year ? Halloween. Four interwoven tales set on Halloween night: a high school principal who mo...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 110min

E-nam, Sam-nam, and Cho-rong live with their father in a slum that is soon to be demolished. The oldest son Il-nam is paid off by the gang that wants to develop the area and tries to convince his father to leave, but his father lo...

Open Cinema

• United States
• 2009
• 86min

This frightening supernatural shockumentary portrays Katie and Micah, a carefree couple who become haunted by an unseen presence in their house. Tired of hearing an unidentified noise night after night, they decide to investigate ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 19min

As soon as she arrives in Korea from Vietnam, Loan goes to a beauty salon with her new mother-in-law. Her mother-in-law immediately starts to nag at her poor Korean, and she is left alone to get a perm. Loan’s loneliness only deep...

World Cinema

• Spain,Peru
• 2009
• 94min

Because of the dread inspired in her by her the horrors of systematic sexual violence her mother suffered during the Shining Path years in Peru, Fausta keeps a potato lodged in her vagina as a precaution. Fausta also suffers this ...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2009
• 110min

After studying the masculinity of Korean society in her debut feature [Jealousy Is My Middle Name], director Park Chan Ok turns her eyes on the initiation of a girl who happens to live with her sister’s husband. Though the girl be...