Dancing Queen (Korea)
Jung-Hwa has supported her husband Jung-Min and child until he passed his bar exam at the age of 35. Years later, Jung-Min has opened his own small law office, but their financial situation hasn't improved very much. Jung-Hwa still teaches aerobics at a gym. She loves to sing and dance.
Jung-Min's popularity soon soars as he is thought of as a good samaritan. He begins to appear on TV shows and even on advertisements. Jung-Min is then chosen to run as a candidate for the upcoming city mayoral election.
Han-Wi who works for a talent agency spots Jung Hwa and asks her to join the “Dancing Queens”
SCREENING SKEDS:
September 2 [Tue] = 1:30 PM
September 5 [Fri] = 3:30 Pm
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The Queen of Cooking (China)
Chunxi, a village girl, falls in love with Zhang Dukang, a successful cook in a TV cooking program. The simple girl comes to the provincial capital city by herself to seek love. However, she is treated with humiliation, instead of sweet love. She vows to become a famous cook of Henan Cuisine and defeat Zhang Dukang. With the help of her boyfriend and a lady selling boiled eggs, she travels all over the province and studies cooking skills from masters for three years. At the “King of Cooking” Competition, Chunxi, now a skillful cook, gets a chance to compete face to face with Zhang Dukang.
SCREENING SKED: September 2 [Tue] = 3:30 PM
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Can You See Our Lights? First Festival after the Tsunami (Japan)
Japanese summer festivals are occasions for holding memorial services for the souls of the departed. The program shows festival committee members busily repairing damaged floats and drums and encouraging dispersed former residents to participate, as well as conveys what the people who are holding these summer festivals are thinking and what they hope the festivals will express.
SCREENING SKEDS:
September 2 [Tue] = 5:30 PM
September 4 [Thu] = 1:30 PM
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Gwanghae (a.k.a: Masquerade, Korea)
King Gwanghae (Lee Byung-Hun) has been the King for the past 8 years. He now suspects that someone within the royal court is attempting to poison him. In response, King Gwanghae orders his councilor Heo Gyun (Ryoo Seung-Ryong) to find someone that looks like him to sit in his throne.
Heo Gyun then comes across a clown named Ha-Sun (Lee Byung-Hun), who performs lewd shows in front of drunken noblemen. Ha-Sun indeed strongly resembles King Gwanghae and is even able to imitate the way King Gwanghae speaks. Heo Gyun takes Ha-Sun to the royal palace without giving any explanations. At night, Ha-Sun takes the King's seat, while the King slips away to his mistress's home.
While Ha-Sun's true voice comes out, enemies within the King's inner circle plan their next move.
SCREENING SKEDS:
September 3 [Wed] = 1:30 PM
September 4 [Thu] = 3:30 PM
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éclair (Japan)
Losing his parents at early age, Akio was sent to an orphanage. He is a quitter, never able to stay in one place, attempts to escape so many times and finally ends up being sent to a reformatory.
It was 1943 when the dark shadow of the war was sneaking up and about to change everything and lead him to such a vagrant life … but the only thing that kept him going amongst everything was “Sweets & Girls”, the song Yoko, who was a teacher of the orphanage...
SCREENING SKEDS:
September 3 [Wed] = 3:30 PM
September 5 [Fri] = 5:30 PM
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Les Petits Mouchoirs (a.k.a: Little White Lies, France)
After vacationing every year together, a group of eight friends have their relationships tested when one member of the group is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident and secrets are revealed.
SCREENING SKEDS:
September 3 [Wed] = 5:30 PM
September 5 [Fri] = 1:30 PM
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The Last Head Woman (China)
At the beginning of the 20th ce ntury, the Qing Dynasty and its imperial and feudal way of life had barely ended and China was just beginning a brand-new era of democracy. Chaos reigned in Yunnan, in southwestern China, where vendettas had spun into blood-crazed attacks among ethnic minority Yi tribes. Young girl Yi Lan lost her mother to one of those bloody murders. Facing challenges to the nation’s existence, Yi Lan choose to shoulder her responsibility as history demanded and to triumph over hatred and revenge..
SCREENING SKED: September 4 [Thu] = 5:30 PM
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O Apostolo (Spain)
After escaping from prison, Ramón heads for a mysterious village where a fellow inmate claims to have hidden a stash of stolen jewels years earlier. Nestled deep within the twisted and foreboding woods of Galicia, Spain and positioned along a well-worn pilgrimage route, the village is a secluded and traditions-obsessed relic of ancient times. Its inhabitants take a peculiar interest in travelers passing through and the local church cleric Don Cesareo is quick to integrate Ramón into his flock, annoyingly preventing him from paying a visit to the house where his treasure awaits. When night falls and Ramón witnesses the entire village disappearing into the confines of the church, his curiosity is piqued. But Ramón will quickly discover that he has stumbled upon a place where archaic legends are reality and he may never be able to leave.
SCREENING SKED: September 6 [Sat] = 11:30 AM
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Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage (Germany)
Sophie Scholl—The Final Days is the true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine who was an activist with the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. The last six days of Sophie Scholl’s life are recreated—a journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility.
SCREENING SKED: September 6 [Sat] = 1:30 PM
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The Volunteers (China)
Xiao Ran, a talented musician, began to feel moved from music as his business expanded. A news report on volunteering inspired him to visit a humble school in the countryside, where what he found was tough living and teaching conditions. Overcoming these difficulties, Xiao was deeply touched by the sincerity of the school’s headmaster, the innocence of the young children and the dedication of two real volunteer teachers. He chose to go against the money-making plan his boss had, involving taking advantage of the children.
SCREENING SKED: September 6 [Sat] = 3:30 PM
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De vrais Mensonges (a.k.a: Beautiful Lies, France)
An anonymous love letter leads to a slew of misunderstandings in this lighthearted comedy starring Audrey Tautou (Amelie). When Emilie opens a heartfelt love letter from a secret admirer, her first instinct is to throw it in the trash. The skeptical salon owner has a change of heart, however, when she realizes what such a sentiment would mean to her lonely, despondent mother Maddie (Nathalie Baye). On a whim, Emilie forwards the letter, and goes on with her day. But later, when Maddie happens across Jean (Sami Bouajila) - a smitten Arab handyman and the original author of the amorous note - the mother and daughter find themselves in a heated competition for the same man.
SCREENING SKED: September 7 [Sun] = 11:30 AM
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Una Pistola En Cada Mano (Spain)
Cesc Gay’s intricate and comedic mosaic explores the intersecting lives of multiple Spanish men going through various changes in their love lives. S. (Javier Camara) would like to reconcile with his estranged wife despite her relationship with another man, while G. (Ricardo Darin) discovers an act of infidelity by pure accident. There’s P. (Eduardo Noriega) and L. (Luis Tosar), but suffering from bouts of insecurity in bed. The fates align as each man comes together at a dinner party in hilariously ironic fashion.
SCREENING SKED: September 7 [Sun] = 1:30 PM
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Punktchen und Anton (Germany)
“Punktchen und Anton” is based on a famous children’s novel by Erich Kastner that tells the story from the point of view of the children. Punktchen, is the neglected daughter of a wealthy surgeon who is reduced to begging because her parents pay little or no attention to her. She becomes the close friend of Anton, who comes from a poor family who works t support his ailing mother. Punktchen’s family disapproves of their daughter’s friendship with a boy of a lower class until Anton helps prevent the robbery of their house and gains favor with them.
SCREENING SKED: September 7 [Sun] = 3:30 PM
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