A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2008
• 122min

To all appearances this is a gangster film. However, this film narrates the human tragedy of a person who is a slave of his cruel fate and can never be freed of it. After spending 3 years locked up for his brother’s crime, Che ret...

World Cinema

• Austria,France
• 2008
• 110min

Based on several true stories set in Vienna, Kurdistan, and Turkey, For a Moment, Freedom hinges on the simple yet sometimes nightmarish trials of a group of refugees trying to reach what amounts to a holy land: Liberty. In one ep...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 31min

2008 Busan HD Project Hyun-jung, a is divorced woman. One day, her ex-husband, who has custody of their daughter, asks her to help Natasha, a blond Uzbekistan woman who knows very little about Korean culture and traditions, to p...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2008
• 95min

Nak is an attempt to establish an original animation of Thailand that differs from the Disney prototype. Based on the original concept about life after death in Thailand, cheerful ghost incidences are displayed with remarkable fe...

New Currents

• Indonesia
• 2008
• 77min

Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly tackles the issue of discrimination against one particular ethnic minority of Indonesia - the Chinese descent. Edwin heightens the satire and criticism by symbolizing image and sound (with music). Linda,...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan,France,Germany,Russia
• 2008
• 82min

Set in the steppes of Central Asia, the film is about the solitude and psychological wandering of humans. When Ivan’s son is born with black hair and dark skin, Ivan, who is a Russian, suspects his Kazakh friend Assan. Fifteen yea...

Flash Forward

• France
• 2008
• 85min

Director Philippe Fernandez returns to the subject of extraterrestrial life and our relationship to outer space in his feature debut. In a small community poised on the precipice of the space age, the conquest of space soon to be ...

Open Cinema

• Austria,Germany,Czech Republic
• 2008
• 126min

In the summer of 1936, two German climbers make plans to become the first to scale Eiger’s notorious North Face. The “Nordwand” has long been considered the most challenging of climbs in the Alps, and the tragic true story that wa...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2008
• 99min

In almost every society in the world lies the belief that the birth of a child is the zenith of womanhood, and that all women naturally embrace inborn maternal instincts. In Emily Atef’s assured drama, Rebecca and Julian experienc...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania
• 2008
• 100min

A comic satire by Romanian helmer Cristian Mungiu: the story unfolds intertwined stories of three people: Luci, Sorina and Michaela. Luci and Sorina are young couple bankrupt with nowhere to stay but dusty street. Struggling with ...