A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,Taiwan
• 2008
• 83min

Xiao Ai is a Taiwanese high school girl who lives a monotonous life without any ambition. After meeting a Japanese transfer student named Miao Miao, however, things change. After Miao helps Ai bake a cake, the bond between the two...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2008
• 105min

It is quite common to see many Asian superheroes kept the vestiges of western superheroes, but it is interesting to see that Mercury Man has similar appearance and shares of the outlook on the world with western superheroes. It co...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2008
• 87min

Lake Mungo combines grief, hidden lives, and the need for closure in a story that melds mystery, drama, documentary, and a dash of Blair Witch Project-style ghost tale. A family in a small town loses sixteen-year-old Alice in an a...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania
• 2008
• 14min

On Maxim’s eighth birthday, his mother decides to give him a special gift. They leave their small village and head to the big city to have a meal at McDonald’s. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 61st Cannes for short film.

Wide Angle

• Japan,United States
• 2008
• 135min

Mental is a cinema-verite style documentary that captures the daily life of the patients, doctors, employees, volunteers, and helpers of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan. The camera is impressive in leading the viewers ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan,Russia
• 2008
• 87min

This film is set in a little town in Kazakhstan. Addai, a shaman, is treated as a local authority; she helps find missing people, heal illnesses, and punish anyone who commits wrongdoings. A conflict arises when foreign investors ...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2008
• 88min

‘Women are strong’. This is the main point that director Masahide Ichii wanted to say in his female version of the buddy film, Naked of Defenses. By portraying the story of two women, the director tried to find out where the origi...

Midnight Passion

• Denmark
• 2008
• 95min

Robert, a cop who has been transferred to a small borderland town in Southern Jutland after having a nervous breakdown. Determined to bury the past, the job as substitute marshall is a necessary weigh station on his way back to ci...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 15min

A daughter-in-law, who knows very little of Korean language and culture, gets married and lives in a small rural house. The camera seems to be following her on a typical day with her brusque mother-in-law constantly nagging and mi...

Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 2008
• 147min

Eleven stories unfold about the city of Mumbai - a city that is sometimes a gateway to hell, a city where strangers can change your life, a city of dissimilar lives in similar circumstances, a city of dreams and blurred realities....