World Cinema

• UK,Australia,France
• 2009
• 119min

Jane Campion returns with her first feature in six years, the gorgeously romantic, sweeping love story [Bright Star]. Campion tells the tale of the brief but intense affair between Romantic poet John Keats and seamstress Fanny Bra...

World Cinema

• SlovakRepublic,Czech Republic,United States
• 2009
• 124min

“The most satisfactory dramas have proven to be real life stories. Whatever we may fictionalize can never be as real as if created from the course of life. It needs to be handled most respectfully and conveyed most faithfully.” ? ...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2009
• 105min

At a time of social and emotional distress, director Alexei Mizgirev posits that the drive to survive ? and surpass ? a gruesome situation will prevail. The years when Russia was moving toward a market economy in the late ‘90s wer...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 102min

This is another film which deals with the suffering of women. Eldest daughter Bun-rye is deeply distressed after she is raped by Yong-pal. To make things worse, she is treated coldly by the impotent Young-chul who received Bun-rye...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 115min

This is a sequel to [The March of Fools]. The famous scene where Byung-tae, who just came back to school from his military duty, plays for high stakes to hold on to Young-ja who is about to be engaged. The scene is aa homage to [T...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 197min

Young-soo’s pining for a married woman reminds us of [The Sorrows of Young Werther]. Lost in his despair, he is wandering around Cheong Gye Cheon in Seoul, where he meets Sun-hwa, who is also despairing for love. Elsewhere, Mee-ye...

World Cinema

• Canada,Ireland
• 2009
• 88min

Fleeting, intense romance has been a subject of art ? and cinema ? for decades: [Brief Encounter], [Before Sunrise], and [Lost in Translation] are just a few. In that vein comes [Cairo Time], the story of a woman’s three-week roma...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 116min

Here are two islands. On Bam Island located on the Han River lives Mr. Kim, a suicide attemptercastaway. On the other island is Ms. Kim’s home. She casts herself adrift for some reason. One day, she discovers the castaway. She put...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy,France,Germany
• 2009
• 112min

One day a security guard is murdered at a XYY chromosome (the inclination to commit crime) research center. Franco, a blind man, who walked by and overheard two men’s conversation on that day, heads out in search for the killer wi...

Gala Presentation

• China
• 2009
• 78min

This film was designed to heal the pain of the great Sichuan earthquake. Fruit Chan and Cui Jian each produced an episode. Fruit Chan’s [1976] is the story of a tea master who returns to a tea house in Chengdu in 1976. Chengdu is ...