Korean Cinema Retrospective
Sweet Dream (Mimong)Sweet Dream is the oldest existing film in Korean history. But, Ae-sun, the main character, is not a naive and conventional woman. Pursuing money and sexual desire, she abandons her family to shack up with her lover in a hotel. Up...
Special Programs in Focus
Pierrot Le FouFerdinand is an ex-Spanish teacher living with a wealthy Italian wife. When a beautiful babysitter, Marianne, comes into Ferdinand`s life a mysterious air comes along with her ? and between them. Accompanying his wife to a recepti...
A Window on Asian Cinema
MilarepaTo Neten Chokling Rinpoche, a spiritual head of Bhutan, filmmaking is another way of spiritual practice. The legend of Milarepa, widely known to Tibetan people, can be a perfect vehicle for carrying a tragedy caused by the greed a...
A Window on Asian Cinema
MingmingMing Ming is a 21st Century martial arts princess and lady Robin Hood who steals for love. Her Prince Charming is D, a maverick fighter and irresistible rogue who posted this challenge to his swarms of female admirers - give him 5...
Wide Angle
The Wind StirsKi-suk working at a factory has feelings for an immigrant co-worker HA. As a weekend came, Ki-suk asked her out to dinner and to driving. One the day, he`s happy with thinking of dating with her, but soon finds out HA brings her b...
World Cinema
The ViolinDon Plutarco, his son Genaro and grandson Lucio are humble musicians that make a living from farming. Plutarco is also a rebel sympathizer who`s hiding weapons on his land. The day arrives when their village is occupied by the mil...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Half MoonHalf Moon is the continuation of Bahman Ghobadi`s [A Moon in Iraq]. Like the musical family in his film [A Moon in Iraq], where the main character was looking for his wife, the great Kurdish musician Mamo and his sons are on their...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Spring of Korean Peninsular (Bando-ui bom)This is a self-reflective film about the poor working conditions within the film industry during Japanese occupation. A film within a film, it realistically portrays the situation at the time with sophisticated camera work. Not on...
Critics` Choice
In Between DaysSo Yong Kim`s debut feature is an unflinchingly naturalistic and painfully realistic look at adolescent displacement, both physical and emotional. Aimie and her single mother are new arrivals to the west confronting the challenges...
Midnight Passion
Bad BloodA modern urban family abandons the city to live in a rural village. Soon they start hearing strange sounds in their new home. And the people in the village all act strangely toward them as if they know something secret. As the fam...