Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 32min

This graduation work of director Ha Kil-chong from UCLA was filmed in 16mm. Seemingly influenced by the New York avant-garde in the 60s, the film mainly talks with ‘death.’ Pitifully, the sound of this surrealistic film, which may...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 89min

A brother and sister trek over mountains, cross rivers, and walk over a bridge between cliffs to and from school. After school, they take care of pigs and their ill grandfather in bed. At night they dine with their older brother a...

Midnight Passion

• China
• 2009
• 93min

This film demonstrates the war happening in a muddy environment by fast cuttings and tells a cruel story in an ancient village in a profound way. In the Tang Dynasty, two robbers come to Bitter Bamboo Village. One of them, Xue Shi...

World Cinema

• Netherlands,France
• 2009
• 92min

“Not only was I returning to my roots for the first time in 30 years, I also went back to the landscape and the people so familiar and dear to me… The energy, the lust for life, the humor and dedication of the Ugandan people is st...

Wide Angle

• Iceland
• 2009
• 103min

A mother’s struggle to understand her son is at the heart of this compassionate documentary about autism. Journeying from country to country, each location offers a new level of comprehension on the increasingly common condition, ...

World Cinema

• France,Italy,Belgium
• 2009
• 109min

A new film from Elia Suleiman dealing with the lives of Palestinians who lived in Israel, and experiences from his own life. This film consists of four parts: from 1948 when Israel invaded Nazareth, his father’s death, intifada, a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Germany
• 2009
• 91min

Urna, who plays traditional Mongolian music, sets out on a journey to keep a promise she made to her grandmother before she passed away. She is determined to revive her grandmother’s Horse Head fiddle (Morin Khuur: traditional Mon...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2009
• 101min

A young Australian couple adopting from India fall into a bureaucratic nightmare in Calcutta when they go to collect their daughter. While they wait for the adoption to be completed, Fiona and Ben come to learn some hard truths ab...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2009
• 90min

Bubuy (11) tries to save his beloved grandparents who have been abducted into Elementalia - a mysterious and magical land with a host of creatures from Philippines mythology. The adventure transforms Bubuy from a timid, bullied ki...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2009
• 92min

Set in urban background, the film talks about what is lost by the urbanization and small family system in contemporary China. The grandfather’s unrefined and crude characteristics in the film bring to mind again the warmest love o...