Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2008
• 106min

Main characters of the Philippines superhero series are usually the lower middle class. They make a bare living and they hope for the better life with their supernatural powers, not just becoming superheroes at a stretch and figh...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2008
• 20min

Xiaoli lives in a crowded public housing complex in Shanghai in the late 1980s. His neighbor is the attractive Lanmi, who is married to a sailor who is never around. As Xiaoli gets closer to Lanmi, his hormones awaken, and he get...

World Cinema

• Poland,Austria
• 2008
• 94min

Young Waldemar is preparing to leave his small hometown in Poland and strike out for the West-as embodied by Vienna-and his planning takes him to see his neighbor, Mr. Kuka. He goes to him asking for advice and tips on how to beha...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania
• 2008
• 100min

Crossing Dates portraits three different stories: Bogdanovici and Bogdanovici, Mirela and Torbjorn,Andrei and Ana. A famous entertainer Bognadovici decides to interview a prisoner having the samename, Bogdanovici. A prison governo...

World Cinema

• France
• 2008
• 143min

Grief hovers over a Christmas gathering by a family as it deals with impending death and long-buried secrets. At the center is a mother, Junon, and son, Henri, the former who conceived the latter in order to find a bone marrow mat...

World Cinema

• Croatia
• 2008
• 100min

Former rock star Ivan is a miserable ex-soldier that lost both legs in the Croatian War of Independence. He lost his wife and his future is uncertain. When his father Izidor runs for public office he attracts the attention of Simo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2008
• 105min

It is the story of Tahaan, an eight-year-old boy who takes a long and risky journey to find his best friend and also an important asset to his family, their donkey, Birbal. The director, Santosh Sivan, criticizes the world of adul...

Flash Forward

• Sweden
• 2008
• 107min

The latest entry into the offbeat Scandinavian cinema sub-genre, The King of Ping Pong is a typically quirky, low-key tragicomedy. Brothers Rille and Erik are polar opposites: one is dark, rotund, and a loner, the other blond, lea...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 74min

The Taebaek region is going through many changes. The ruin of the region after the shutdown of the mine is veiled from prosperity due to the widespread casino business. The lives of the people who cannot leave this place continue ...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2008
• 78min

When a handsome stranger comes into chronically ill Hannah’s tranquil life on the Norfolk coast, he becomes the catalyst for healing her broken family. Director David Rocksavage explains: “I wanted to portray to the audience that ...