12:08 East of Bucharest
Category: World Cinema
12:08 East of Bucharest describes the fall of communism through the eyes of a provincial television station. The film was the first made by Corneliu Porumboiu, and won the Camera D’Or (Best First Film) at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

Stuff and Dough
Category: World Cinema
In this film, critically acclaimed director Crisi Puiu takes us in a rattle-trap van with a naïve young man, his pal and the pal's girlfriend en route to Bucharest to deliver a mysterious parcel for a local gangster.

Dincolo
Category: World Cinema
A Romanian short about an old overweight postal worker who, when nagged by his wife, joins a weekly caravan of local villagers who cross the border to sell their goods for hard currency.

The Paper Will Be Blue
Category: World Cinema
In this Romanian film, director Radu Muntean plunges us into the confusion of the long night-day-night of Dec. 22, 1989

Cold Waves
Category: World Cinema
This post-modern narrative film tells the history of Radio Free Europe during the 80s in Communist Romania, which served as a secret confidant to its Romanian listeners despite the dictator Ceauşescu's attempts to close it down.

Testimony
Category: World Cinema
Diagnosed with a brain tumor and given three years to live, filmmaker Răzvan Georgescu decides to overcome the solemnity of this prognosis to explore the realm between life and death through a series of interviews.

Humanitarian Aid
Category: World Cinema
Three young men from Western Europe arrive in Romania with humanitarian aid. The inhabitants of a little mountain village have already been waiting for them. See what unfolds in this short film from the Romanian New Wave.

Reports from the Pusan International Film Festival
Category: World Cinema
Link TV editor Kyung Lee reports from the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea. Currently the biggest film festival in Asia, PIFF offers the new talents and films from throughout Asian. This series offers rare interviews with the Asian directors who share their filmmaking experiences in their native countries.

In Xanadu
Category: World Cinema
In Xanadu is a full scale theatrical production that tells the story of a Mongolian fantasy between Khublai Khan and his wife, Chabui, complemented by live traditional Tibetan and Mongolian music.

CINEMONDO: The Violin (El Violin)
Category: World Cinema
In this award-winning CINEMONDO film from Mexico, a humble violin player is more than he appears: a covert supporter of the campesina peasant guerilla movement.

MADE IN TAIWAN: Artemisia
Category: World Cinema
This film probes the generational and cultural conflicts confronting modern families in Taiwan, following a long-widowed woman as she cares for her difficult mother, closeted gay son, and a daughter returning from abroad.

CINEMONDO: Daratt
Category: World Cinema
This fable-like gem opens in a small village in Chad, as the government is about to announce the fates of those accused of war crimes during the country’s long civil war. When amnesty is granted, 16-year-old Atim is sent on a conflicted path of revenge.

GLOBAL LENS: The Fish Fall in Love (Mahiha Ashegh Mishavand)
Category: World Cinema
Atieh's small but popular restaurant on the sleepy Caspian coast is her pride and joy. But when a former lover, shows up to close the restaurant, Atieh fixes him the meal of a lifetime.

Interview with Chiang Hsiu-chiung, director of "Artemisia"
Category: World Cinema
Director Chiang Hsiu-chiung, recipient of a Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival, talks about her first feature length fictional film, Artemisia, about a modern family in Taiwan.

CINEMONDO: Alexandra
Category: World Cinema
In a desolate corner of the world, an elderly woman has come to see her beloved grandson, a young officer stationed at a remote military outpost. Alexandra is a powerful film from the great Alexander Sokurov.