Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 96min

After their mother’s funeral, Myung-eun proposes her half sister Myung-ju a trip to where her father lives. Not theirs, but hers. A hard-grained career woman Myung-eun wants to recall the memories of her father and deal with her w...

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2008
• 74min

An orchestra conductor who presents classical music, a conductor of a university choir of five thousand people, and a cheerleader who can lead fifty thousand soccer fans. Although they work in different fields, they are passionate...

World Cinema

• France,Denmark
• 2008
• 90min

Without marginalizing its lasting impact, Juliette Garcias explores the difficult subject of incest. A woman in Burgundy is looking for her lover. When she, and we, finally meets him, we realize he is also her father. This so-cal...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2008
• 86min

Sparrow may be a somewhat unexpected film to come from Johnnie To for those who know the director as the mastermind of Hong Kong crime cinema, especially for his bullet-buzzing ballet sequences. The characters in Sparrow have such...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2008
• 94min

Myungho, a son from a poor family, meets Bunam, his classmate. Both Myungho and Bunam have been sick; for Myungho, it was because of lack of nutrition; for Bunam, it was because of overeating. The doctor suggests them to switch th...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 124min

Ex-detective Joong-ho operates a massage parlor. Some time ago, the girls working for him started to disappear one by one. Following the trail of Mi-jin, one of those girls, Joong-ho succeeds in capturing the suspect Young-min. Ho...

Special Programs in Focus

• Malaysia
• 2008
• 107min

It is interesting to see how Asian countries reinterpret the western superheroes. The reason the Cicakman stands out among Asian superheroes is that this superhero has the ability and power of a lizard, which can be easily found i...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy,France
• 2008
• 98min

Four people?Edoardo, Carlotta, Ottone, and Ottilia?staying in an early twentieth century Tuscan villa are confronted by strong emotions and questions about themselves. A year into a marriage that happened after a twenty-year separ...

Midnight Passion

• Japan
• 2008
• 97min

When Goro briefly appears before Keiko who leads a lonely life as a dubious fortune teller on the streets, Goro seems just like her. In fact, Goro leads a group of con artists. One day, he witnesses a group of men kidnapping a mid...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy
• 2008
• 188min

This anthology based on the stories of Sicilian writer Luigi Pirandello?a precursor to Beckett and Ionescu?is as close to genre filmmaking as the Tavianis ever strayed, and a warm, wistful picture of Sicily. The four segments and ...