A Window on Asian Cinema
Bokunchi-My HouseBukunchi - My House is a film by one of the foremost directors of the 90s Japanese independent movement, Junji Sakamoto. It is a bitter-sweet film about two brothers fighting against the strange world, with humor and wit as their ...
Wide Angle
Barrier DeviceAudrey Moon, a Ph.D. candidate in behavioral psychology, is conducting a female condom study, and recruiting subjects at a women’s clinic, one of whom is Serena. Audrey always strives to maintain a professional distance. But she s...
Korean Panorama
Sympathy for Mr. VengeanceThe latest film by Park Chan-wook, who marked 2000 with his commercial hit, Joint Security Area: JSA. This time, though, Park leaves all pop conventions behind and reveals his cinephiliac sensibility and pessimistic views to creat...
Wide Angle
To the Spring MountainAfter a man’s death, his daughter and wife hand the casket of her father to a carrier. While they are climbing the steep mountains, they accidently drop the casket and an argument breaks out between the daughter and the carrier. T...
World Cinema
The Uncertainty PrincipleAmazingly prolific, 93-year-old Manoel de Oliveira returns with a seductive, tangled saga set on a genteel Portuguese manor. Wealthy scion, Antonio, and Jose, the housekeeper’s son, have grown up practically as brothers. Jose has ...
Wide Angle
Sound of BrazilSound of Brasil is a musical road movie, a captivating and passionate documentary about the many styles of Brazilian music. In Sound of Brasil, Kaurismaki embarks on a musical journey of 4,000 kilometers. On his way he stops at Pe...
Open Cinema
Bloody SundayBloody Sunday is a war film about the struggle for peace. On 30th January 1972, British soldiers fired at 13 unarmed civilians taking part in a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland. This incident, Bloody Sunday, was a maj...
World Cinema
Blue MoonWhen Johnny Pichler turns his back on the safety of the West and ventures into the far reaches of Eastern Europe, he is following the summons of love. His route takes him to Slovakia and then on to Ukraine - and finally to Odessa,...
Wide Angle
After RainAfter Rain is a balladic story of a man and a woman and their ending romantic relationship. It is told from the perspective of the female protagonist, the one who wants to break up. The film was made in one day with a budget of 2....
Wide Angle
PipioOne day, a girl′s father dies from an overdose at a subway public toilet. The girl panhandles pretending to be crippled. She spends most of her time at a park chasing pigeons. The only happy memory she has is that of her grandmoth...