New Currents

• Korea,France
• 2008
• 88min

[2008 ACF Post - Production Fund] Director Roh Gyeong-tae tends not to craft the story in a way that helps audiences understand the whole picture at once, but rather does it so the audience can take their time to see the connecti...

Flash Forward

• UK
• 2008
• 96min

Hunger for me has contemporary resonance. The body as site of political warfare is becoming a more familiar phenomenon. It is the final act of desperation; your own body is your last resource for protest. One uses what one has, ri...

World Cinema

• Ireland,UK
• 2008
• 79min

Complexity exists in all of us but so often teenagers are not seen or portrayed in such a way. Given her personal history she is also intensely private. We rarely see her emoting or showing how she really feels. This emotional res...

World Cinema

• France
• 2008
• 90min

After watching the film, a very close friend sent me an email in which she said: “Like an old folktale, your film shows us the locus from which desire is born, the renewal of the species, and makes the incontrovertible assertion t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2008
• 66min

The first color-feature length animation of Korea. It was generally known the original print was lost but thanks to the resent restoration work, it’s back on the screen. The Japanese title appears on the screen since the restorati...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2008
• 74min

In Baranashi, India, where over 150 bodies are cremated everyday, there are seven children who take off the burial clothes from the dead bodies and sell them, sometimes with the bereaved family’s permission but mostly it is done ...

World Cinema

• Spain
• 2008
• 103min

The Good News is a universal story showing the struggle to remain faithful to our own principles, even though it entails great personal sacrifice. The conflict between personal freedom and social commitment has always been present...

Flash Forward

• Bulgaria
• 2008
• 103min

Two couples, two houses, one new subdivision. The fortysomething newcomers are greeted as unwelcome interlopers by the established neighborhood or prefab homes, and are soon subjected to a vigorous and calculated game of misunders...

Special Programs in Focus

• JAPAN
• 2008
• 100min

ABC Short Films produced by Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), consists of 5 short films about ‘children’ made by prestigious filmmakers. The films deal with social issues, pre-pubescent school life, and familial obligations in...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 34min

At dawn, Mr. Moon and his wife have a short encounter in front of the house as he leaves for work and she returns from work. It is their daily routine but this reality feels especially depressing today for Mr. Moon. Neither a socc...