A Window on Asian Cinema
Striking Out in LoveA comedy film about two young Japanese women of Satori(nirvana) generation. A freelancer writer Tamami ran into another woman Juno in the house of her boyfriend whom she dated for ...
Korean Cinema Today
GodsendGodsend was made by a rookie director based on a scenario by Kim Ki-duk. A woman who desperately wants a baby asks a girl who is considering abortion to give her the baby instead. ...
Wide Angle
Japanese Animations: Masters CollectionIn this omnibus animation created by four directors. Tsukumo and Combustible are miniature animations maximizing the traditional Japanese artistic sensibility of the Edo period. Ts...
Wide Angle
The Laundry RoomAn apartment operated by the Social Welfare Department of Switzerland has an elevator on the ground floor with a small laundry room beside it. The film narrates the story about tho...
Wide Angle
The Last of the UnjustTheresienstadt was a unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann, one of the major Nazi architects of the Holocaust, called the “model ghetto”. It was designed to mislead the w...
World Cinema
In HidingIn the spring of 1944 in Poland, near the end of WWII, Janina faces a huge change in her life when her father decides to offer a shelter to his Jewish friend’s daughter Ester. One ...
World Cinema
The Priest′s ChildrenThe Catholic priest pierces the condoms to be sold, while the pharmacist substitutes contraception pills with vitamins to boost the birth rate. Unwanted pregnancies occur, bringing...
A Window on Asian Cinema
OmarThe latest film of Hany Abu-Assad, who constantly brings Palestinian issues to his films, conveys the dismal reality in the Israeli-Palestinian relationship that is threatened by I...
Wide Angle
1001 ApplesThis film experimentally recreates the history of the Kurdish genocide in Iraq. In 1988, the Iraqi government killed 182,000 Kurds and buried them with ‘Operation Anfal’, an ethnic...
New Currents
PaschaForbidden love doesn’t include only immoral intimacy. If a woman in her forties loves a 17-year old male that could also be forbidden. Forty-something, screenwriter Gaeul, lives wi...