Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2008
• 85min

It is hard to find superhero films in China because their culture of emphasizing the importance of physical training (especially with Kung Fu) to become a superhuman. The first superhero from China, the Super Inframan inherited th...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 110min

Tired of her job, TV producer Su-jung, who makes tear-jerking human documentaries for a living, decides to go to Africa to make a documentary about a lion. While an accident with her crew prevents her departure, she happens to mee...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2008
• 89min

Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Kurt Cobain are members of an elite, tragic club that rock band front man Tom has joined. “The 27 Club” is a group of musicians that died at 27. With Tom dead and gone, his best friend...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2008
• 120min

Director Mamoru Oshii has always placed his imaginative world at the border of reality and virtual reality, past and future. Based on a novel by Hiroshi Mori, The Sky Crawlers flies to that border with Oshii’s message to the young...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2008
• 89min

Like his previous social drama, What the Sun Has Seen, Rosa creates a palpable tension and realism in his latest, where his characters are once again struggling to make sense of their surroundings. A couple contentedly married fo...

Opening Film

• Russia,Kazakhstan,Israel,Poland
• 2008
• 97min

This is a story of a man who survived from gruesome dark ages. Only thing he has left is the memories of his childhood. The director with future, Rustem Abdrashev and Kazakhstani outstanding actor, Nurzhuman Ikhtimbaev and Russia’...

Open Cinema

• UK,Canada
• 2008
• 95min

To me it is more about the passion for a particular cause. I remember the Vietnam War very vividly. I knew people who fought against it and also those who went to that war. I also remember the Civil Rights movement, and what that ...

Wide Angle

• Latvia
• 2008
• 20min

An unidentified man roams a city looking for boys and men fit to win a mysterious green bag from him. Marija, a woman at home alone, is oddly chosen to receive one. But that’s just the beginning of the story.

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2008
• 125min

If You Were Me 4 is an annual omnibus film project by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea. Each film paints a portrait of how Korean teenagers feel insecure about their own future, deal with social issues, and battle wit...

Gala Presentation

• United States,Korea
• 2008

Make Yourself at Home is feature debut of the director Sohn Soopum, who was invited to PIFF and Cannes with his short Fish in the Sea Is Not Thirsty in 2000. Make Yourself at Home has been noted since its early production stage st...