World Cinema

• Argentina,Korea
• 2008
• 113min

Lion’s Den is a film about mothers, love, devotion, and confinement. Julia wakes up in her apartment and discovers the bloodied bodies of two men: Her boyfriend and his lover. Having no recollection of what happened, she goes abou...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2008
• 27min

Takeshi returns to his hometown to discover nothing has changed, including his feelings for his high school friend, Yuki. A misunderstanding left him with bitter memories and heartache. Will he have a second chance now that Yuki...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2008
• 94min

This is a heart-warming traditional drama directed by director Katsuhito Ishii, renowned for his films rich in individuality including The Taste of Tea. This film, a remake of the film by the great director Hiroshi Shimizu at the ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2008
• 101min

Not due to a territorial dispute or ideological differences, people of the same nation aim guns at each other due to religious differences. The conflict between Muslims and Hindus is more fatal than wars between nations as they ca...

World Cinema

• Germany,Poland
• 2008
• 97min

Julia is a woman with a perfect life: She’s happily married, her career is stable, and she lives in a beautiful home. In a flash, however, that all ends when her mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. As her family starts to fr...

Special Programs in Focus

• Singapore
• 2008
• 77min

This animation was produced in Singapore. For Dawan, who is living with her poor but loving family, the best way to escape from rural life is to earn a scholarship and go study in the big city. But her father persuades her to mar...

World Cinema

• France
• 2008
• 105min

At the heart of Garrel’s vaguely supernatural love triangle are Carole, an unhappy movie star, her negligent husband Ed, and photographer Francois, who becomes her lover. When their affair is discovered, Carole spirals into madne...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 80min

2008 AND Fund Project The film is set on the streets of Seoul where the autumn leaves are starting to fall. The camera, which wanders around Saemteo restaurant, stops in front of a young man named Jerry K, an activist named Ahn S...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2008
• 98min

To track a serial killer, two FBI agents are sent to a small town. They have three witnesses. They separate them into different rooms for the questionings. The problem is each witness tells the different story. Which one is telli...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• France,Philippines
• 2008
• 94min

The Pineda family is living in an old theater located amongst chaotic side streets and endless dark stairs. The people coming to the humble theater, decorated with women’s nudes and a warning ‘not to evacuate’, are only engrossed ...