Wide Angle

• Thailand
• 2011
• 20min

A man cleaning an upscale house is joined by his mother and girlfriend for lunch. The women later help him clean, watching him with unease when he takes a phone call. Aditya Assarat’s short film unravels restless and insecure emot...

World Cinema

• France,Canada,Israel
• 2011
• 100min

Tai is an Israeli girl. Naim is a Palestinian boy. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. Naim picks up a bottle thrown into the sea and finds Tai’s letter. Naim emails a response, and their correspondence nurtures what little ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 92min

[A Certain Romance], Yonfan’s first feature, is about a girl’s journey to womanhood, as she learns how to navigate the terms of relationships after high school. Magi and Lily are best friends. Magi falls in love with a man she mee...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2011
• 110min

As the youngest of five daughters becomes more and more embroiled in the hectic preparations for her engagement party, her sisters gather for the first time in a long while for the occasion?and naturally they get chatty over the k...

Wide Angle

• Korea,Canada
• 2011
• 21min

Two men, barely acquaintances, take a trip together. They wind up stuck in Vancouver before returning to Korea when unexpected heavy snowfall blankets the city. They try to have a good time on the last stop of their road trip, but...

Wide Angle

• Japan,Korea
• 2011
• 133min

The Korean Peninsula, June 2000. The Inter-Korean Summit generates great expectations for unification. In Kawasaki, Japan, similar anticipation is brewing; Reverend Lee In-ha, having devoted his entire life to the Koreans residi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2011
• 108min

[A Journey with Korean Masters] is an omnibus film compiling four shorts created by directors who once dominated Korean cinema: Park Chul-soo, Lee Doo-yong, Lee Jang-ho, and Chung Ji-young. This modest project is the product of ...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2011
• 120min

Momo moves to an island with her mother, but she feels uneasy there. The island seems to be a place of exile for the natural born city girl, and her busy mother leaves her alone in the old house. Most of all, she misses her father...

Open Cinema

• France,Belgium
• 2011
• 87min

Montmartre, Paris. It is 1910, when the Eifel Tower is half submerged in the Seine’s floodwaters. Emile is a cinema operator and his inventor friend Raoul is a truck driver who also has a secret crush on beautiful cabaret singer L...

Gala Presentation

• Korea
• 2011
• 119min

Director Lee Jung-hyang returns nine years after The Way Home. Comparison with her previous films reveals a perspective on cinema and the world that has deepened and broadened. [A Reason to Live] revolves around the wounds of two ...