Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 123min

[The14 Amazons] tells the story of a loyal and faithful family during the Song Dynasty?a story that has been repeatedly recounted in China and Hong Kong through literature, plays, television dramas, and films for years. The sing...

Special Programs in Focus

• Portugal,France
• 2011
• 142min

The film starts in a surrealistic atmosphere with a dialog-song with a customs officer. Manoel seems to have received some orders on the computer and leaves his daily routine to join a 15th century pirate ship. His friends ecstati...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2011
• 104min

Rumpoey, daughter of the town’s richest and most powerful man, and Dum, a son of a poor farmer, reunite in the city years after having been apart as children. They are madly in love but the plot takes a tragic turn when Dum’s fath...

Special Programs in Focus

• Portugal
• 2011
• 116min

[Past and Present], first film of the ‘Thwarted Love’ tetralogy is being introduced in Korea for the first time. Vanda gathers her friends together to mourn her first husband’s death. Soon after her second husband Firmino jumps ou...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2011
• 77min

This film is one of the famous ‘Rambler Series’ in Japanese Western films. A man comes from a wasteland and walks into the backstreets of a city carrying a guitar on his back. He gets into a fight in a bar and before he realizes, ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Portugal,France
• 2011
• 133min

Tonia, a transsexual, is in danger of being replaced by newcomers. Her younger lover Rosario wants her to get a sex change operation and become a ‘complete’ woman but her religious beliefs prevent her from doing so. The son that s...

World Cinema

• Portugal
• 2011
• 98min

An avant-garde reconsideration of the Dracula legend, [The Baron] opens with the arrival an elementary school inspector in a remote village. According to the director, the original film version of [The Baron] was shot by a team of...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2011
• 115min

A widow runs a farm with her young son. A man comes into their lives with mysterious past and helpful hands. On the other hand, a group of villains are looking for an infamous gunman and the sheriff is after the same man. They fin...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2011
• 79min

The rambler comes back to the wilderness. The wandering guitarist enters the town with a boy in search of his mother. His mother is a villain’s lover and refuses to see her son. The Guitarist finds out that the town’s development ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 106min

A visually stunning reflection on lustful desire, Yonfan’s [Colour Blossoms] tells the story of Meili, a realtor, who visits a mansion after being asked to handle its sale. There, she meets the mysterious Madame Umeki, and finds h...