Wide Angle

• KIM Mire
• Korea
• 2009
• 73min

On the night of June 30, 2007, cashiers and salespeople of Homever, a superstore, started to fight for their rights and to disclose issues regarding contract-worker protection laws. This was not only the first in-house picketing a...

Midnight Passion

• Uwe BOLL
• Canada
• 2009
• 93min

In the claustrophobic confines of a jail cell, an inmate is discovered hanged. His three cellmates attempt to save him, but are too late. The three cellmates are interviewed separately in order to determine the progression of even...

Midnight Passion

• Anders ANDERSON
• United States
• 2009
• 92min

Detective Tom Adkins’ son Tommy Jr. disappears on a fateful Fourth of July afternoon, and in the ensuing eight years Tom’s work becomes an obsession for him. Tom attempts to solve the case of his missing son, but his efforts have ...

Wide Angle

• HE Wenchao
• China
• 2009
• 29min

This summer is really tough for Xiao Guang. He longs to leave the city and return to the countryside. His father is too busy, so Xiao Guang stays with his step-mother Yuan Jie. Xiao Guang was really close to his grandfather. But r...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• YANG Heng
• China,Hong Kong
• 2009
• 112min

[Sun Spots] deals with the imperfect love of a young couple set in a small town in Southern China. A boy living in a boring life becomes a contracted gangster near the city. One day he meets a girl, who sleeps by the riverside aft...

World Cinema

• Andrzej WAJDA
• Poland
• 2009
• 84min

Andrzej Wajda turns his camera toward the subject of death in his latest film, [Sweet Rush], a triptych that connects an adaptation of a short story by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (a Wajda favorite), a mini-documentary about making the ...

Gala Presentation

• MATSUMOTO Hitoshi
• Japan
• 2009
• 93min

Matsumoto Hitoshi’s second film [Symbol] (2009) follows a popular and charismatic comedian in Japan and is similar to [Dai Nipponjin] (2007), and [Big Man Japan] (American Version). It has brilliant wit and shows the work of a sur...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• LEE Kang Sheng,NIU Cheng-Zer,Debbie HSU,LEE Chi Y,CHEN Dj Yin-jung,CHENG Fen-fen,CHENG Hsiao-tse,AN Jeyi
• Taiwan
• 2009
• 94min

[Taipei 24H] divides 24 hours in Taipei into 8 segments, giving each segment to a filmmaker to tell a Taipei story. It opens with Cheng Fen-fen′s upbeat and comedic [Share the Morning], and has Lee Kang-sheng running the final leg...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Yasmin AHMAD
• Malaysia
• 2009
• 110min

A high school in Malaysia is holding their 7th annual talent show. All the students, their families, and the teachers involved in the talent show and their stories in [Talentime] show the dark side of Malaysian society and the com...

World Cinema

• Cristian MUNGIU,Constantin POPESCU,Ioana URICARU,Razvan MARCULESCU,Hanno HÖFER
• Romania,France
• 2009
• 155min

Without Cristian Mungiu of [4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days], this legendary omnibus film hasn’t come out into the world. Five directors including Mungiu dramatize their unique personal experiences from the end part of the Ceausescu ad...