World Cinema

• Mexico
• 2008
• 112min

In the endless quest for redemption that is really the inability of Elias’ character to forgive others and himself, religious guilt is shown to be the detonator of obsession and madness. And in the damage done to this family micro...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2008
• 106min

Whether you like it or not, city life creates situations where one must share a space with another. Although they may not mean any harm, the insensitivity when one does not take others into account can sometimes become a serious t...

New Currents

• India
• 2008
• 82min

After the tragedy of the tsunami, which hit southeast and west Asia in 2004, there have been a lot of films (especially documentaries) that have dealt with the physical damage the tsunami left behind. Four years later, films are n...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 88min

2007 AND Fund Project The lives of farmers are humble and rough, but there is warmth and passion inside the roughness. The documentary captures the daily lives of the farmers who struggle to protect small things. The efforts of t...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 43min

The documentary is about the life of a pharmacist who works in the country, the reality of the agricultural district, and also the thoughts of the director behind the camera. The director, who had started this project to look back...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2008
• 92min

A tragic disaster usually reveals the soundness of the infrastructure system in the society where it happens, like the Sichuan earthquake in China in May of 2008. Hundreds of children lost their lives in the collapse of the Muyu M...

World Cinema

• France,Chile
• 2008
• 87min

Based on a story by Honore de Balzac, the esoteric and prolific Raoul Ruiz turns his camera to genre filmmaking with his latest, a horror film about an old house and its former occupants. In the late 1930s, William James, a wealth...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 126min

Due to her mother-in-law’s insistence, a country wife Soon-ee visits her husband Sang-gil, who has enrolled in the army. However, the husband, who has left behind a girlfriend at the university he attended, gives her a cold respon...

Gala Presentation

• China
• 2008
• 92min

“To tell the truth, she is not your real mother.” The secret revealed by the boyfriend of Dada’s mother is more abrupt than striking. With this new knowledge, Dada immediately decides to leave home. Jao, who has been carrying a to...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2008
• 90min

Female superheroes are rare even among the western superheroes, and Darna is definitely the one and only female superhero in Asia. Even though the character is originated from a Filipino comics, some may point out that Darna is ve...