Special Programs in Focus

• Uzbekistan
• 2013
• 43min

In this comedy, Mahmud gives a ticket to a football match to his neighbor Normat. It just so happens that at the stadium that day is an organized lottery: the owner of this ticket is the winner of new automobile. Normat is absolut...

Special Programs in Focus

• Ireland
• 2013
• 85min

Lenny Abrahamson and Mark O'Halloran, the team behind the award-winning 2004 comedy drama Adam and Paul, reunited for this stuning character study of middle aged, lonely garage attendant played by well known Irish comedian Pat Sho...

Special Programs in Focus

• Ireland
• 2013
• 94min

Hugh O’Conor plays Fionnan the hapless bride groom whose camping weekend is hijacked by his future brother in law, a psychopath known only as the Machine. A crazed force of nature, the Machine leads the group into the wild mountai...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 97min

Love between a married thirty something woman and a 20-year-old man. The woman, who is about to get a divorce, has an old lover but is also falling for the young man. Her mother-inlaw does not want the divorce to occur, yet the wo...

Special Programs in Focus

• Kyrgyzstan
• 2013
• 62min

A modern parable about three brothers whose life separated. Of their happy childhood and adolescence together, only a black-and-white photograph remains. The rebellious youngest brother is now seeking the meaning of a dream wherei...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 105min

This rediscovery is one of Park Chul-soo’s early films, based on a novel by Lee Oi-soo. Two poor college students struggle to survive in an abandoned house. The man is absorbed with painting the image of 99 dogs on a canvas, while...

Special Programs in Focus

• Ireland
• 2013
• 132min

Neil Jordan’s hugely ambitious account of the rise of arguably the central figure in Ireland’s painful, bloody fight for independence. A subject which was always going to be controversial, but at heart it plays out on a historic s...

• 53rd Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion Award

Special Programs in Focus

• Ireland
• 2013
• 104min

Awarded Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival 1970, John Boorman’s early masterpiece is a fascinating allegory of class and racial tension. Marcello Mastroianni plays a bored and exiled monarch living in a run-down London mans...

Special Programs in Focus

• Ireland
• 2013
• 90min

The semi-autobiographical In America tells the story of a family of Irish immigrants trying to succeed in New York. Written by Jim Sheridan with his daughters Kirsten and Naomi, and shot in the aftermath of 9/11, the film is a hea...

Special Programs in Focus

• Kazakhstan
• 2013
• 80min

During an operation, a surgeon, Aydar, recognizes his patient as a childhood friend by a tattoo on the man’s hand. It inspires memories of Alma-Aty of 1960s - a time of how he survived with his sister after Stalin’s regime, when h...