A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2009
• 100min

Working at a textile factory, Li Li is diagnosed with leukemia, but she and her husband can’t afford her treatment. Upon giving up, she decides to find her first love to feel happiness before she dies. [The Weaving Girl] deals w...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2009
• 70min

Mr. and Mrs. Hwang start arguing about a wedding anniversary event due to differences of opinion. Mr. Hwang jokingly says he wants to go on a trip to Yang-pyong, while Mrs. Hwang wants anniversary presents from their children. Thr...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 110min

E-nam, Sam-nam, and Cho-rong live with their father in a slum that is soon to be demolished. The oldest son Il-nam is paid off by the gang that wants to develop the area and tries to convince his father to leave, but his father lo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2009
• 104min

Skinny as a reed and with tousled hair, teenager Ryo Kawai feels like he’s at the edge of a cliff. He lives alone in a house with no electricity, water or gas, and has just been fired from his work. He can’t go to school because h...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2009
• 108min

Even without a keen knowledge of the German film industry, the subtle wit and delicate satire of Andreas Dresen’s tale of an alcoholic actor working extra hard for his pay check when a producer double casts his role will be instan...

World Cinema

• France
• 2009
• 100min

[Chocolat] catapulted Claire Denis onto the world cinema stage, a film about a young woman recalling her coming-of-age in Africa. With [White Material], Denis returns to the land of her childhood, this time tackling much tougher l...

Wide Angle

• Italy,Switzerland
• 2009
• 90min

In northeast Italy is the Tagliamento River, tucked away almost like a secret spot on the border between Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. This documentary is a poem to that river and the people of the region: spirited, storied, a...

World Cinema

• Belgium,Austria,France
• 2009
• 90min

After the rainy season every year, females in Niger, south of the Sahara desert, start a difficult journey to cross the desert with camels. Admiration of the civilized world, hope for self-accomplishment as a woman, and other desi...

World Cinema

• Netherlands,Belgium
• 2009
• 104min

In the last winter of World War Ⅱ, fourteen-year-old Michiel is forced to become a resistance fighter when he nurses British pilot from a crashed fighter back to health and hides him from the Germans. Caught between the father he ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 110min

Enrolling into a commercial high school in Busan, Jjang-gu joins a school gangster club called ‘Monster’. It wasn’t something he volunteered for; rather, it was natural to join such a club at that time. Like a rite of passage, he ...