Special Programs in Focus

• Bum-Jin JOE
• Korea
• 2006
• 90min

Human feces have become the sole source of energy in a city where nature has dried up and died. In order to accumulate this valuable resource, the government distributes “HARD,” wh...

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• Koichi Chigira
• Japan
• 2006
• 111min

Eleven-year-old Wataru has an absent father and a mother hospitalized for attempted suicide. Determined to change his destiny, he enters a magic gateway to another world called Vis...

World Cinema

• Rachid BOUCHAREB
• France,Belgium,Algeria,Moroco
• 2006
• 120min

In 1943, at the peak of WWII, Said ? from the Algerian countryside ? enlists to fight for France, the mother nation that he has never seen. At training camp, he meets other Maghreb...

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• Laurent ACHARD
• France,Belgium
• 2006
• 95min

Martin, an 11-year-old boy, lives in a rural French village with his disturbed family. His sick mother prefers stays in her own room avoiding her sons, and his brother falls into a...

Special Programs in Focus

• Mamoru Hosoda
• Japan
• 2006
• 98min

A girl became capable of traveling to the past. How will she change her confusing present life of recklessness and fear? Tsutsui Yasutaka`s original short story of [The Girl Who Le...

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• Amir NADERI
• Iran
• 2006
• 75min

Abdullah gets a prized position from his father a harmonica. Now all the boys in the village paying Abdullah money, or bribing him with food or sweets - the boys pay for the abilit...

Special Programs in Focus

• Kompin Kemgumnird
• Thailand
• 2006
• 97min

This is Thailand`s first 3D feature animation. Even though this animation appears to have been heavily influenced by both Hollywood and Japanese animation, it met with a roar of ap...

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• Denis DERCOURT
• France
• 2006
• 85min

Melanie is a teenaged girl dreaming of being a pianist. She takes piano lessons with the help of her hard-working parents. When she sits for the Conservatory entrance exam, she get...

Special Programs in Focus

• Amir NADERI
• Iran
• 2006
• 74min

Twentysomething Gretchen (Sara Paul) is a crossword addict who has challenged herself to complete 77 puzzles in 24 hours. Almost pathologically dependent on noise, she inexplicably...

Special Programs in Focus

• Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram
• India
• 2006
• 134min

The film was made during British colonial rule of India, and is a dark critique of the divide-and-rule policy of the British that stirred communal hatred between Hindus and Muslims...