World Cinema

• Chile,Spain
• 2008
• 95min

In his follow-up to Machuca Andres Wood turns his camera toward the illusions we create in our daily lives. Edmundo is a hairdresser and a bit of a hedonist. When his heritage is called into question, it is the catalyst for an inv...

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...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 130min

This is director Kim Jee-woon’s western film, which is the 21st century adaptation of the Manchuria western films featured in Korea’s film history during the 1960s. Since the beginning of its production, the film received attentio...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• KOREA
• 2008
• 89min

Although The Hand of Destiny was not successful in the box office, it received major attention for having the first kiss scene in the history of Korean cinema. Also actress Yoon In-ja appears as the first female spy. The film unfo...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 21min

Yu-jin’s younger brother went missing when she was young. Her family has been struggling to find him for the last 9 years. Then one day her father also goes missing. Yu-jin, who hears things and suffers from unexplainable toothach...

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...

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...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy,France,Bulgaria,Spain,UK
• 2008
• 122min

The activist Tavianis address the Armenian genocide in The Lark Farm, one of very few films to do so (Atom Egoyan’s Ararat comes to mind). In 1915, the affluent Akavians are readying for a family reunion. Aram and his wife put lit...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 11min

Passengers ride the last bus to Shindorim with a very exhausted driver on a cold winter night…This film captures the everyday things that arise inside a set time and place in tactful and witty ways. It raises the notch on the char...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2008
• 19min

Generations of Jeju Island women have taken up the mantle of becoming sea divers. In months with one of the few remaining tribes, director Chae documents the impact that diving has had on the lives of the last mermaids.