A Window on Asian Cinema

• Netherlands,Indonesia,Germany,Switzerland
• 2008
• 90min

After her mother’s death, Jaya visits his father. His father, who did not even know of Jaya’s existence, rejects him. Rather, he rejects his entire past. Young Jaya realizes that he cannot expect anything from his father and becom...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 64min

The Story of Mr. Sorry is an adaptation of a story by Lee Juck, a well-known Korean musician and writer. The film unfolds a controversial debate on the assassination of a spider. The spider is actually a man named Mr. Sorry. The f...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2008
• 96min

A gay schoolteacher, Jay is brutally murdered and the story begins with a reality TV show that documents Jay’s death. While the show features his death, grieving family, interviews with colleagues and Jay’s lover, it soon becomes ...

World Cinema

• France,Canada
• 2008
• 110min

Fifteen-year-old Jen and her mother Sarah have their life disrupted by the handsome Ian-a dead ringer for Jen’s father, who recently died by suicide. Until Ian’s arrival, Jen had been coasting through her life, emotionless and sol...

World Cinema

• France
• 2008
• 95min

War creates a state of no-rights which allows for all kinds of impunity and madness. It normalizes death, standardizes barbarity, maintains fear and phantasmagoria, brings back to life-old demons, overturns morality and humanity. ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy,France,Bulgaria,Spain,UK
• 2008
• 122min

The activist Tavianis address the Armenian genocide in The Lark Farm, one of very few films to do so (Atom Egoyan’s Ararat comes to mind). In 1915, the affluent Akavians are readying for a family reunion. Aram and his wife put lit...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 130min

This is director Kim Jee-woon’s western film, which is the 21st century adaptation of the Manchuria western films featured in Korea’s film history during the 1960s. Since the beginning of its production, the film received attentio...

World Cinema

• Chile,Spain
• 2008
• 95min

In his follow-up to Machuca Andres Wood turns his camera toward the illusions we create in our daily lives. Edmundo is a hairdresser and a bit of a hedonist. When his heritage is called into question, it is the catalyst for an inv...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2008
• 110min

The scale of the world of children is broader than that of adults, because children also have access to the imaginary world while grown-ups only adhere to reality. Nevertheless, children want to become grown-ups as quickly as poss...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 90min

The wife is an undercover agent who handles top national secrets. She has an affair with a man she meets on a business trip. She refers to her poet husband as an alien. The husband also starts to talk to a woman he meets in the ba...