Special Programs in Focus

• Czech Republic
• 2010
• 100min

Director Jan h?ebejk deals with the rather sensitive topic about people who cooperated with the communist government in the past. Pavel, a distinguished psychiatrist is about to receive an award for his life’s work and role as a d...

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• Korea
• 2010
• 120min

[Winter Wanderer] is director Kwak Ji-kyun’s debut film, a melodrama involving Minwoo, his old sweetheart Da-hye, and a prostitute, Eun-young. In absence of her lover, Da-hye comes to depend on Minwoo’s old friend, Hyuntae, while ...

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• Korea
• 2010
• 112min

Soomi, who recently returned from her studies in France, retains a haunting memory; she was gang-raped during a date with Jinwoo while a freshman in college. Despite Jinwoo’s attempts to mend her physical and emotional injury, Soo...

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• Spain
• 2010
• 107min

Ana’s parents die leaving Ana and her two sisters to be raised by their aunt. Young Ana believes she killed her father, sees her mother’s spirit and dreams of poisoning her aunt. The masterpiece perfects Saura’s long artistic jo...

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• Czech Republic
• 2010
• 145min

Czechoslovakia, 1982. The totalitarian regime seems invincible. Antonin, a member of the secret police, is full of unfocused rage and everything around him - his work and family life - wears him down and bores him. He becomes fixa...

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• Turkey
• 2010
• 109min

A normal family outing turns into a nightmare. When their parents are murdered, the younger brother and sister are left with the baby. They scrape through by, selling furniture, but the ordeal seems to be endless. Children orphane...

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• Czech Republic
• 2010
• 97min

Six long-time friends in their thirties have moved to Prague from a small town. After reuniting at a party, they realize what they don’t want in life, but have not found what they want. They decide to live together in a farmhouse ...

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• Iran
• 2010
• 113min

The great Kurdish musician Mamo and his sons are on their way to Arbil in Iraq for a public performance following the collapse of the Saddam Hussein Regime. However their travels do not go smoothly. The suffering that they have en...

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• France,Italy,Switzerland,Armenia
• 2010
• 84min

A love story blooms in a graveyard. Living on a pension, a widower Hamo visits his wife’s grave every day. Nina who lives on selling vodka at the small street shop visits her husband’s grave every day. There two meet and their rom...

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• Spain
• 2010
• 88min

Julian, Ramon, Juan, El Chato, Paco and Manolo are a group of low class youths wandering the impoverished streets of Madrid. To help Juan become a bullfighter, his friends steal money, and one of them eventually dies. Carlos Saura...