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Palm Trees and Power LinesIncreasingly dissociated from lazy, drunken hangouts and perfunctory hookups with her immature peers, bored, aimless seventeen-year-old Lea is intrigued by an older-man, Tom, after he rescues her following a reluctant dine-and-...
Korean Cinema Today
Paper ManInmok’s appearance is somewhat curious. Around his neck, covered in dirt, he wears a mysterious medal. Perhaps the medal is the last piece of his glorious past remaining in him. When he finds himself forcibly evicted from his ho...
Special Program in Focus
Passage of LifeA film depicting the difficulties faced by a Myanmarese family living in Japan as they await their refugee status determination. Passage of Life is Fujimoto Akio’s feature-length directorial debut that won him the Best Asian Futur...
Korean Cinema Today
PeafowlShinmyung, a passionate waacking dancer, aspires to finance her genderreassignment surgery by winning a dance battle with a large jackpot, but ends up in second place. At the same time, she learns that her father, a master of t...
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Peter Von KantA famous film director, Peter von Kant, lives with his assistant Karl, whose devotion to his patron is limitless. Sidonie (Isabelle Adjani), an actress who has been a long-time muse for Peter, introduces a young man, Amir, to him ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Plan 75When Japan’s population of citizens over seventy-five grows to unprecedented numbers, the government implements “Plan 75,” which encourages people over age 75 to seek euthanasia. This policy is based on the perception that the eld...
World Cinema
Prison 77Carcel Modelo, Barcelona in 1977, a few months after General Franco′s death. Manuel, a young accountant who was sentenced to six to eight years in prison, joins a group of prisoners who form a union to request amnesty. The stru...
World Cinema
PrologosThe incredible visual trance of Prologos may very likely blur the viewer’s coherence of the film. The director explores the connections between the real and the illusion, the memory and the routine, the past and the present, an...
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R.M.N.Matthias runs into the night after a he violently reacts to a racist slur. His prodigal return to hometown reunites him with an old flame, Csilla, who works for a local bread factory that has trouble recruiting locals at minimum w...
World Cinema
Raymond & RayRaymond & Ray follows half-brothers Raymond and Ray, who have lived in the shadow of a terrible father. Somehow, they still each have a sense of humor, and his funeral is a chance for them to reinvent themselves. There’s anger,...