Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 101min

[Bishonen] is a beautiful love letter dedicated to a tragic love where accidental encounters and fateful farewells all entangle. Jet sells himself to strangers, longing for a true love. He runs into a cop, Sam, and the two soon be...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 120min

This is a tragic drama about a man whose family was destroyed because of a car accident and the married couple who caused the accident. The parallel narratives of the two families alternate and gradually merge in a bittersweet con...

World Cinema

• Portugal
• 2011
• 139min

[Blood of my Blood] is the story of a family that lives in the slums of Lisbon. The daily lives of a son(or nephew) that works for a drug cartel, a daughter who is in love with a married man, a mother who is having an affair with ...

World Cinema

• Belgium
• 2011
• 86min

Bafiokadie and Tene, a brother and sister, begin a journey to find a blue bird that has suddenly disappeared in the garden. The siblings encounter their deceased grandparents, engage in a battle with spiritual beings of the forest...

World Cinema

• Austria
• 2011
• 93min

Roman Kogler, 19, convicted of manslaughter, tries to build a new life for himself working at a municipal funerary institution. Most of the film shows him carrying corpses and cleaning coffins. Then one day Roman sees an old woman...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2011
• 38min

Ju Eun-ae sells tickets at the National Museum of Modern Art. However, she is also a part-time agent of Bugging Heaven, an unofficial national prediction institution operating in the museum’s basement. The story rushes towards an ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 112min

Kim’s famous boxing film stars Kim Gi-su, who was a famous champion at the time. Long takes of boxing scenes are vivid and real as two sets of fists cut across the screen. However these realistic action scenes take up only a small...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2011
• 11min

A man leaves a woman in search of the unknown. Enduring the latest of several failed relationships, the woman is exhausted?body and soul. She feels as if she is crossing an arid plain. This ambitious animated film communicates the...

Wide Angle

• Switzerland,Germany
• 2011
• 91min

June 2008 in the Central African Republic. The film starts with the picture of an African boy playing an instrument in the middle of a heavy downpour. The camera then slowly turns to capture the forensic scientists and specialists...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2011
• 115min

In China, there is a practiced superstition that if a man dies unmarried, he has to be buried with a woman who died around that time, otherwise the rest of his family will be unhappy. The ritual is known as a soul wedding. In a v...