New Currents

• Japan
• 2006
• 98min

A modest yet ambitious feature debut by director Nakamura Mayu, who works in Japan and the US, describes the wandering years of high school girl Mizuho in `90s Kyoto. She doesn`t get along with her mother and rather depends on her...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2006
• 107min

Man-soo, a subway train driver, happened to hit a woman who jumped into the railway a few days ago, and it puts him into under critical mental status. Meanwhile, Hanna, a German language lecturer, was going to a short trip with he...

New Currents

• the Philippines
• 2006
• 105min

A story of a certain rock star that takes a leap back in time through his memory. After a band`s lead vocalist, Teddy, is murdered, another band member, Jett, loses his enthusiasm for music. One day, he is hit on the head by a rob...

New Currents

• China,France
• 2006
• 88min

A new brilliant film from the director of [the Orphan of Anyang and Night and Day.] An elderly country schoolteacher comes to the big city of Wuhan in search of his only son. His dying Wife has requested to see her boy one last ti...

New Currents

• China
• 2006
• 112min

A film about the rather banal lives of two teenaged delinquents. Unlike many teen films that portray the passionate love and energy of youth, this film draws a portrait of two disempowered people without much of a future. The ever...

New Currents

• Malaysia
• 2006
• 90min

A special gaze on an ordinary love story - that is director Tan Chui Mui`s gaze on the subtle emotions of love. Aping has moved to Kuala Lumpur from Penang and works at her aunt`s restaurant. She frequently calls her boyfriend in ...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2006
• 92min

Tae-han runs a small stamp shop in a small town. One day finding out that his wife is having an affair, he decides to witness his wife`s infidelity before his eyes. Knowing that his wife`s lover, Joong-sik, is taxi driver, he goes...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 2006
• 95min

A queer cinema with the twist of a coming-of-age film? Or a coming-of-age film with the twist of queer cinema? With college looming ahead, relations between childhood friends Jonathan, Shane, and Carrie, undergo subtle changes. Wh...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2006
• 99min

[Wool 100%] is perhaps the most eccentric film debut this year that deals with encounters and affection in a fairytale world. The film lives up to the reputation created by the director`s short animations, crossing formats from an...

New Currents

• China
• 2006
• 93min

Director Wei Tie conveys the sharp disjuncture that lies between reality and dreams in contemporary China by charting Zhu Ming′s migration from the countryside to the city and his efforts to get a job. Through a style that is clos...