Special Programs in Focus

• Italy,France,Germany
• 2008
• 118min

Spanning two centuries of Italian history, Fiorile slots in seamlessly with the Taviani brothers career-long fixation with the working class and the power of wealth to corrupt. While traveling to Tuscany to see their grandfather, ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2008
• 110min

Alisha, a daughter of a rich family, has never had a relationship with anyone else with the exception of her dolls. She is tormented nightly by the nightmare of her mother who killed herself with a pistol. One day, she sees Bari c...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2008
• 108min

Commemorating the 10th anniversary of filmmaker Kim Ki-young, PIFF will screen The Housemaid in a digitally restored version by the World Cinema Foundation and Korean Federation of Film Archives. The Housemaid was first screened a...

Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 2008
• 110min

Targeting the global market, the Indian animation industry is constructing a brand of ‘Indian animation’ by adopting various subjects from India’s historical, religious, and cultural traditions. Return of Hanuman begins with a ba...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SriLanka,India
• 2008
• 90min

This film has everything to make you feel warm in your heart. Sandiya Rani, a former star, makes a living by providing a secret place for celebrity couples. One day a scandal is leaked out from her house, but surprisingly the publ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 18min

A foreign backpacker meets a truck driver while hitchhiking. The driver drinks water non-stop and collects his urine in plastic bottles to substitute for gas. The backpacker and the truck driver’s peculiar meeting on a desolate We...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2008
• 18min

Caged behind iron bars at his lonely late-night pharmacy, Arvind spends the night with his Batman comic books, looking forward to the brief exchanges he has with a prostitute who stops by each night to buy condoms.

Wide Angle

• Malaysia
• 2008
• 26min

Nine-year-old Xiao Jiang lives with his grandfather on a rubber estate. His older sister,who works in the city, promises to take Xiao Jiang to the zoo to see the newborn tiger cubs. But the next morning when he wakes up, she has ...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2008
• 118min

Frothy”, “optimistic”, and “light” are not qualities often associated with the cinema of Mike Leigh. But in taking a step away from class issues, social realism, and injustice Leigh demonstrates a deft hand with what amounts to ro...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2008
• 102min

After sweet collaborations with a synchronized swimming team in Water Boys and a high school big jazz band in Swing Girls, director Shinobu Yaguchi returns with his own characteristic wit, humor and lovely composition once more. T...