Flash Forward

• Iceland
• 2008
• 99min

What happens when a tolerable one hour stretches into five or six or more? In Valdis Oskarsdottir’s new comedy-drama, two busloads?one headed by the bride, Ingibjorg, and one by the groom, Bardi?of wedding guests get lost en route...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2008
• 90min

This is the 7th movie by director Ho-Cheung Pang who has made several witty movies since his debut You Shoot, I Shoot in 2001. Trivial Matters is an omnibus movie with 7 short stories. The director makes up a series of jokes and p...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 117min

There is a girl near the factories. A man discovers her, feeds her, and turns her into a prostitute. A woman appears and becomes very close friends with the girl. However, their friendship does not last long. The girl goes back to...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 22min

2008 Kodak Short Film Production Fund In a distant city at the end of the earth called U-sa, there is a massive slaughterhouse led by a powerful owner who raises Minotaurs. Nonem, the butcher, meets a Minotaur family caught after...

Open Cinema

• Italy
• 2008
• 135min

It is hard, after 100 years of cinema, to reinvent the Mafia film. In Gamorrah director Matteo Garrone tries to do just that. One part melodrama and one part existential meditation, the film was based on the nonfiction bestseller ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 22min

Chinese students Deungho and Li-wonwon make the best of their lives in Korea despite the ignorant stereotypes of the people around them. Life is difficult but things would not be better for them in China, so they must endure the p...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2008
• 86min

Confessional is a film that questions the borderline between truth and lies. However there is a surprising twist at the end. Ryan, who works as a video editing engineer, heads for Cebu island with his girlfriend Monet to participa...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2008
• 75min

The outside world doesn’t exist, all that exists is inside the ward of a hospital for terminally ill patients; The camera is patiently recording an old man, whose life activities can only be carried out in his bed. He constantly c...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan,Korea
• 2008
• 116min

The new film by Isshin Inudou, director of Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish(2003) and La Maison de Himiko(2005), captures the life and romance of Asako, a single comic artist in her forties, narrated in her apprentice Naomi’s point ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2008
• 83min

A young porter Malek, who works at an Iran-Iraq border area, takes a fancy to a lady named Nora, who frequently entrusts him with hard tasks. After she takes advantage of his fascination, the harshly punished Malek starts to track...