A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia
• 2008
• 110min

From its beginning, Sell Out! does not appear to be a common film. The protagonist Rafflesia interviews the character of filmmaker Joon Han Yeo himself. The film, which unfolds with the interview of the naked filmmaker who commen...

Wide Angle

• Japan,China
• 2008
• 99min

A documentary about pandas that have never lived in the wild forest. A friendly voice of a panda follows the life stories of giant pandas, bred and protected by human as they are on the verge of extinction. This exquisite document...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2008
• 92min

Is it possible for a woman to be independent in today’s China? This is the question posed by the director Emily Tang in Perfect Life. Emily Tang searches for the answer through a mixture of documentary and fiction. Yueying Li drea...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2008
• 114min

Seventeen-year-old boys Huda, Rian and Syahid are students of a pesantren (Islamic religious school). With their graduation a month ahead, they grow up and solve their lifetime problems. Huda locates his mother who abandoned him o...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 75min

This film is an adaptation of a novel by Yanbian authors, Liang Chun-sik and Kim Nam-hyun. It describes the romantic stories of seventeen-year-old boys and girls, which can be applied to the general young generation of Yanbian the...

World Cinema

• France,Morocco
• 2008
• 84min

As a follow-up to her award-winning short film Salam, El Bouhati returns to explore displacement and identity in her first feature film. A young, happy girl Sofia, born in France to Moroccan parents finds herself on a farm in Nort...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2008
• 97min

Smuggling human cargo from Canada into the United States over the frozen St. Lawrence River is Ray, a white woman, and Mohawk Lila’s only option. Both are in dire need of fast money, and so against each’s better judgment they agre...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,Japan,Brazil,France
• 2008
• 100min

Like Hong Kong in Love Will Tear Us Apart (1999) or the dystopian city in All Tomorrow’s Parties (2003), Likwai Yu focuses on another city to offer another look into the lives of fragile drifters. This time, they are in Liberdade ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania,Germany
• 2008
• 87min

Part documentary, part drama, Ciulei’s The Flower Bridge is a moving and enlightening portrait of a nation dealing with a rash of fracturing families that have nothing to do with divorce or death. In Moldavia, over half the labor ...

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 2008
• 80min

For decades, the accepted standard image of Africa has been one of impoverishment, bloody civil conflict, and the destination for foreign aid. That image is a Western media construct that is nearly the one the world recognizes-som...