Midnight Passion
Free JimmyJimmy is an elephant who has become addicted to drugs for twenty years of abuse by circus. And Jimmy has a secret hidden in his body, a secret of enough value to bankroll Roy`s circus. Militant animal rights activists want to free...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
VolunteerVolunteer was a propaganda film designed to promote Japan’s Cho Sun reserve army program. Chun-ho is a sincere young man who follows in his father’s footsteps by reclaiming wasteland and managing tenant farmers. While Deok-sam plo...
World Cinema
JindabyneBased on a story by Raymond Carver, [Jindabyne] is a typically layered emotional study of people at a moral crossroads from acclaimed filmmaker Ray Lawrence. While on a fishing trip, Stewart and his friends discover the dead body ...
Wide Angle
Truth and BeyondTraveling across Bangladesh meeting mystics and ascetics, the filmmaker explores the different aspects of popular Islam in Bangladesh, including its different sects. Islam, as a classically formal religion shackled with edicts, co...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Angels on the StreetsThis film is based on the true story of minister Bang Sung-bin, who helped look after streets orphans. Even though the film was initially censored for portraying the “impoverished lives of the colonized,” it went on to become the ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Syndromes and a CenturyThe film ls about a `flow`; it never dwells in any conventional cinematic form or in completed structure. To create the `flow`, Weerasethakul focuses on the dialogues from daily lives. Those dialogues, however, lead us nowhere in ...
Korean Cinema Today
The City of ViolenceTaesu, who works as a police investigator in Seoul, returns to his old home, with an obituary notice of his old friend, Wangjae. He meets up with his other friends, Pilho, Seokwhan and Dongwhan at the funeral rites. Taesu feels th...
World Cinema
Acts Of ImaginationSiblings Katya and Jaroslaw are dealing with the death of their mother: the lonely Katya embarks on a relationship with an older man, and the freshly unemployed Jaroslaw struggles with the household expenses. Growing up in their n...
Wide Angle
Age of Rapairing HymenA young lady, who has just quarreled with her boyfriend and had an abortion surgery, feels at loss about the hymen complex. She decides to find answer from her mother and grandma. Her elegant and gentle mother tells about her firs...
A Window on Asian Cinema
To Get to Heaven First You Have to DieTwenty-year-old Kamal has been married for several months but has not yet been able to consummate the marriage; his wife remains a virgin, and he sexually frustrated. After consulting a physician and finding that there is nothing ...