Flash Forward
West 32ndThe classic case of friends on opposing side of the law is the basis for Michael Kang’s follow-up to the coming of age comedy-drama The Motel. John Kim is a lawyer at a Manhattan law firm investigating a Korean gangland murder. On...
World Cinema
You, the Living“You, the living is about the human being, about her greatness and her miserableness, her joy and sorrow, her self-confidence and anxiety. A being at whom we want to laugh and also cry for. It is simply a tragic comedy or a comic ...
New Currents
Milky Way Liberation FrontDirector Yoon Seongho has been representing a new style and ideas of the digital generation through many digital shorts. The lead character Young-jae, who resembles the director, hopes to become a movie director. However, he break...
World Cinema
Iska′s JourneyWhen Csaba Bollok first encountered Maria Varga, she was scrounging just as her character does in Bollok’s powerful and moving tale of a preteen girl bound for a life of poverty and misery. In a gloomy Romanian mining town, Iska’s...
Midnight Passion
InsideSarah, a young photographer is by herself on Christmas eve. She′s been alone since her husband died tragically in a car accident. Today is the last day she has to spend at home before going to hospital to induce labour. The calm i...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Foster ChildThis year’s best film from the Philippines. Thelma’s family, living in a ghetto, provides a foster home for abandoned children before they become adopted. Today is three-year-old John-John’s adoption day to an American family. The...
World Cinema
VogelfreiFrom a burgeoning Eastern European cinema industry that boasts Laila Pakalnina, Cristi Puiu, Corneliu Porumboiu, and Agnes Kocsis comes this omnibus of shorts by some of Latvia’s most promising young filmmakers. Four short films t...
World Cinema
It′s a Free World…Known for his politically and socially charged films, Ken Loach returns with a drama examining the consequences of the exploitation of immigrant labor. Angie and her roommate Rose ? sick of working for someone else ? open a busine...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Viva FreedomIt is August, 1945 and Han-joong, in prison due to a friend’s betrayal during the independence movement, breaks out of prison with a serious injury and ends up hiding at nurse Hye-ja’s house. He hears that his friend is arrested w...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Madame FreedomA college professor’s wife OH Sun-young discovers a new world since she started working at a boutique. She begins to enjoy wearing dresses that accentuate her features, achieve high sales profits, and dances in the arms of men oth...