Special Programs in Focus
A Confucian ConfusionThe new east Taipei suburbia is the background for A Confucian Confusion. Through quick tempo and unending dialogues, it delves into the shrewd notions of romance and money of the nouveau middle-class, even art and religion has be...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
MoneyBong-su (KIM Seung-ho) is a hardworking farmer, but his situation shows no sign of improving, no matter how diligently he toils. He has even postponed his daughter′s wedding several times because of financial strain. Bong-su sells...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
A Dream of FortuneChang-soo (KIM Seung-ho) is a teacher who lives with his wife and son in a rented house on the outskirts of Seoul. He has no talents other than teaching, a fact that his wife constantly laments. One day, he dreams of pigs, which i...
World Cinema
Reclaim Your BrainSwitch on your television on any given night and you’re likely to find a reality program at some stage of broadcast. The firmly entrenched Reality TV phenomenon isn’t likely to pass anytime soon. As a genre, it’s been accused of t...
World Cinema
DuskaBob is an intellectual film critic visiting an obscure festival in Kiev. While there, he meets the friendly Duska. Believing he’ll never take him up on the offer, Bob leaves Duska with an open invitation to visit him in Holland. M...
Wide Angle
The Diapers of DaughtersA young daughter leaves her baby in the hands of its grandmother to work at a beauty salon. She is cranky as she has started her period and her mother starts suffering from urinary incontinence that makes her regret her life of ol...
World Cinema
Lucky MilesAfter Indonesian fisherman-human trafficker Ramelan abandons a boatload of illegal immigrants off the coast of Australia, fate conspires to reunite him with two of his victims as they try to stay one step ahead of the law. Cambodi...
Special Programs in Focus
LeilaOne day, the happy life of a childless couple is disturbed by the mother of the husband. With her strict belief that children are the standard to measure one’s happiness, she insists that Leila must persuade her husband to get a s...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Romantic PapaThe film for which Kim was awarded Best Actor at the 1960 Asia-Pacific Film Festival. Mr. Kim (KIM Seung-ho) is the happy father of two sons and three daughters. Always optimistic and romantic, he is called "Romance Papa" by his w...
Flash Forward
Riza“Rıza, a typical example of life here, is the victim of his fears and is pursued by feelings of guilt. One of my concerns as writer and director was to represent the complexity of his inner life.” ?Tayfun Pirselimo?lu Riza is ...