Summer IFF’s Recommendations!

Man on WireDirector: James Marsh　prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /

On August 7 1974, French acrobat Philippe Petit pulled out the heist of the century; a high wire act between the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center more than 1,000 feet above ground.

 The InternationalDir: Tom Tykwer Cast: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts,　　　Armin Mueller-Stahl

Just in time for the global financial crisis,shows the darkest side of banking. When an Interpol agent (Owen) and New York attorney (Watts) team up to uncover the dark deeds of a powerful bank, their quest takes them from Berlin to Milan to Istanbul, risking their lives at every turn.

**** The Girl on the Train (La fille du RER)Director: Andre Techine Cast: Emilie Dequenne,　　　Catherine Deneuve

A timely, complex portrait links imagined spaces of bias and fear to the provincial domesticity of middle-class suburbs through a young girl who fabricates accusations of assault and anti-Semitism amidst swirling issues of ethnic identity, alienation, love and conflicting demands.

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Jeonju Digital Project 2009: Visitors Dir: Lav Diaz, Hong Sang-soo,　　　*********Kawase Naomi *

2009 Jeonju International Film Festival 2009 Locarno Film Festival

In celebration of the tenth Jeonju Film Festival, 2009’s digital project features shorts by three of Asia’s most innovative filmmakers. Kawase Naomi’s Koma explores the ties that bind two families in a Japanese village; acclaimed director Hong Sang-soo typically ponders gender relations in Lost in The Mountains; and Lav Diaz abandons his penchant for ten-hour films with Butterflies Have No Memories, wherein the people left behind when a Canadian mining company abandons a polluted island meet a Canadian visitor.