New Currents

• Iran
• 2009
• 77min

Reza, an ordinary factory worker, must return his wife’s dowry when they get a divorce. Because of problems in their marriage, his wife Zari wants a divorce. After doing everything he can to try to scrounge up the money, he must m...

Open Cinema

• India
• 2009
• 164min

Love can happen to anyone and once it does it engulfs us into it completely and gives us those miraculous experiences that only love can yield. This is what happened to Surinder Sahni - an honest man working for Punjab Power, lead...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 19min

As soon as she arrives in Korea from Vietnam, Loan goes to a beauty salon with her new mother-in-law. Her mother-in-law immediately starts to nag at her poor Korean, and she is left alone to get a perm. Loan’s loneliness only deep...

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2009
• 24min

A young wife, Utami, sees her husband Warso off. She waits for him. Warso leaves with his lover, Ningsih, who also left her husband Darsam. The lovers meet and happily leave the village. Darsam and Utami both wait for their respec...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 18min

An area in Seoul is being redeveloped as per the plan for a new town. The expression of the boy playing in the deserted area is blank. He is revealing the remnants of the people that left before him, and leaves his own behind as w...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2009
• 84min

This is a film portraying a couple’s short romance and subsequent farewell. It’s a work long dreamed of by Kobayashi Masahiro, who is said to represent Japanese independent cinema. A man who has left Japan and is wandering around ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2009
• 88min

With the past of losing his wife in an accident, Brain is a hired killer who sets up accidents to kill his victims. While conducting a well-crafted mission, his team member is accidentally killed, and he comes to believe that some...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2009
• 110min

This film tells us how complicated and subtle, pretentious and empty human relationships are. Duyen and Hai are newly married. Duyen believes that she truly loves Hai, but soon realizes that’s not true. Duyen’s girlfriend Cam is f...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2009
• 95min

Suffering from an unknown illness, Amor returns home from the city, but the village doctors are at a loss for what to do. At the same time, the livestock of the village falls to death and eventually people as well. A witch doctor ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2009
• 116min

Hideo, a middle aged man, lives an ordinary life with his lover, Nozomi, an air doll. One day, while he is at work, Nozomi comes to life and steps out into the world. Working at a video shop, Nozomi falls in love with Junichi, her...