World Cinema
FRAULEINThree women from the former Yugoslavia are the central figures in Andrea Staka`s nuanced look at survival and generational misunderstanding. The rigid Ruza is 50, originally from Serbia, and owns a canteen in Zurich where she live...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Mainline[Mainline], a tragic story of mother and daughter co-directed by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab, is a road movie dealing with serious social issues like drug addiction, which is taboo in Iran. Sara, a future bride, is ...
Wide Angle
The Quiet HappinessA boy bought one album entitled “The Quiet Happiness”, but to find no sound coming out from his CD player at all. Couldn`t stand being fooled, he demanded to get a refund by all means -- till the moment he truly heard the sound of...
World Cinema
9th CompanyFyodor Bondarchuk takes a page from Hollywood to tell the story of a group of soldiers from boot camp to combat during the last days of Russia`s Afghan war. Like the Vietnam films of the late-1970s and `80s, the squad at the cente...
Special Programs in Focus
The Zodiac, The Race Begins...Those who were born in the year of the monkey are known to be dexterous, and those born in the year of the pig ? on a winter night ? are known to have comfort all their lives. Without scientific proof, the zodiac has been explaini...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Straits of ChoSunAfter his older brother dies in the war, Sung-gi returns home. However, his father, who opposed Sung-gi’s marriage, rejects him. After much anguish, Sung-gi follows his brother to the war, leaving his impoverished wife to give bir...
Wide Angle
PortfolioWith the heart operation ahead, mother got comfort by looking back on her dead son`s unfinished portfolio. I was going to tell this story. since the heart operation of my mother who actually features in the movie was `very` succ...
New Currents
DistanceDirector Wei Tie conveys the sharp disjuncture that lies between reality and dreams in contemporary China by charting Zhu Ming′s migration from the countryside to the city and his efforts to get a job. Through a style that is clos...
Wide Angle
A Prepared LifeYeo-woon KIM, an 80-year-old grandmother has a crush on old man Mr. CHOI, a secondhand dealer. Upon hearing about the death of Mr. CHOI, KIM makes a reluctant visit to the senior citizen`s rest house where she meets a young shroud...
World Cinema
Love Sick[Love Sick] could be one of the few films ever made wherein the romantic couples of the story exist free of angst and latent guilt. Familial connections and sexual orientation take a back seat to emotions and the messy, complicate...