A Window on Asian Cinema
No.7 Cherry LaneHong Kong in the 1960s. Mrs. Yu lives at No. 7 Cherry Lane with her mysteriously charming teenage daughter Meiling. When Ziming, a university student, becomes an English tutor to Meiling, a special bond begins to form between the ...
Open Cinema
99 Songs99 Songs is a musician’s quest to understand his purpose and passion. To overcome the challenges that stand between him and everything he cares for; to prove himself and the love for his beloved. A journey of heartbreak and redemp...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Heavy CravingThirty-year-old Ying-Juan, who weighs 105 kilograms, is a great cook. She works as a lunch lady at her mother’s daycare center. Neighborhood children and people ridicule and sneer at her for her weight, but Ying-Juan is confident ...
Korean Cinema Today
Hotel by the RIverDirector HONG Sangsoo’s Hotel by the River even makes his faithful audience disconcerted. The story is so simple that it doesn’t need an explanation. The story is about a father who is a poet (KI Jubong), who lives at a simple hot...
World Cinema
Dogs Don′t Wear PantsFrom Bernardo BERTOLUCCI’s Last Tango in Paris to JANG Sunwu’s Lies, there are movies that leave a deep scar on the audience’s mind, dealing with perverse desires. The Finnish film Dogs Don’t Wear Pants, which was introduced durin...
Korean Cinema Today
GANGUnlike Director CHO Bareun’s name, which means ‘righteous’, his movie Gang is not righteous at all. And it’s completely charming because it’s not righteous. I Recommend Gang to the following audience; those who think Volcano High,...
Wide Angle
No One is Crazy in This TownThe resort owner of a quiet island tries to remove all the crazy people from the village because he doesn′t want to show them to foreign tourists. But the village′s profits are actually made in unexpected ways… (PARK Sungho)
World Cinema
Marriage StoryA stage director and his actor wife struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes. Marriage Story is a comedy-drama directed and written by Academy Award nominated fil...
Korean Cinema Today
Kyungmi’s WorldThe title of this movie, Kyungmi’s World, is interesting. Kyungmi doesn′t appear as the main character in the movie. The main characters are Suyeon and her grandmother (even her grandmother′s name is not Kyungmi). Suyeon is an asp...
Wide Angle
Piece of MeatA Lamb Chop works, supporting her younger brother and her sickly mother. Longing for individual liberty, the Lamb Cutlet is trapped by her socio-economic limitations ? a vicious cycle which seems far too difficult to overcome. (KA...