I like Scrat. You like Scrat. We all, apparently, like Scrat. But no one, I suspect, likes the saber-toothed cartoon squirrel – who, along with his beloved, ever-out-of-reach acorn, made only brief appearances in both of the first two "Ice Age" films – enough to want to watch a whole movie about him.

Do you hate loan officers? Or do you secretly curse them together with the voices in your head every time you think nobody can hear you?

Chris and Gitti, a German couple, who are spending their summer in Sardinia, Italy, live in a seemingly perfect harmony, basking in the sun, making love, playing with make-up or with a puppet made of ginger and matches.

In the buzzing capital of Taiwan, a collection of curious characters interact with each others and eventually come across the same obsessing issue of finding a place in this competitive Asian society, as well as a roof to live under in "A Place of One's Own."

A 20-year-old sophomore, Yang Yang (Sandrine Pinna) is a beautiful Taiwanese of mixed origins who has never met her French father and was raised in Taipei by her "one time rocker" but single Taiwanese mother.

The year 1983 marks the end of the "Guerra sucia" (dirty war) in Argentina, during which many intellectuals were imprisoned under the dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla.

Although Hollywood seems to host the world's leading film industry nowadays, the Taipei Film Festival (2009 TaipeiFF) reminds moviegoers that it wasn't always like that.

Based on Serge Brussolo's bestselling French novel "Les Emmeurés," "Walled In" is set in a cursed building, where the last four inhabitants are unwilling to speak of its curse.

In most Asian countries, including Taiwan and Japan, 'university' is a very flexible term that not only makes it hard for the companies who want to hire young graduates, but also for the students of other higher education institutions.

Where we expect to see a box-office success that only lurks on the popularity of the cartoon series, that it's based on and the success of the first movie – after all, it is a sequel – there are definitely some surprises in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."