Wide Angle

• Atul Sabharwal
• India
• 2008
• 18min

Caged behind iron bars at his lonely late-night pharmacy, Arvind spends the night with his Batman comic books, looking forward to the brief exchanges he has with a prostitute who s...

Wide Angle

• Benny Lau
• Hong Kong,China
• 2008
• 12min

Shunned by others, a man with a curious head tilt finds love in a woman working in an old-fashioned theater. They discover the reason to the man’s head tilting, but hesitate wheth...

Special Programs in Focus

• Yuhang HO,YAMASHITA Nobuhiro,Wayne Peng,Pen-ek RATANARUANG,Wisit SASANATIENG,Daniel Yu,Jordan Suleiman,Saman Moghadam,Tony Pietra,Edwin,Yasmin AHMAD,Auraeus SOLITO
• Indonesia,Iran,Thailand,Japan,Hong Kong,Indonesia,Philippines
• 2008
• 75min

Many Asian film directors have been expanding their portfolios to include directing music videos due to interests in the related field, wanting to experiment with new images, or to...

Wide Angle

• Royston Tan
• Singapore
• 2008
• 10min

The public toilet can be a potential site of contagion and contamination. So what better setting could there be for a love story that takes place during Singapore′s SARS crisis?

Wide Angle

• Ju-ri Kim
• Korea
• 2008
• 31min

2008 Busan HD Project Hyun-jung, a is divorced woman. One day, her ex-husband, who has custody of their daughter, asks her to help Natasha, a blond Uzbekistan woman who kn...

Wide Angle

• LEE Chungryoul
• Korea
• 2008
• 75min

The documentary is about a deaf and crippled farmer in his 80’s, his nagging wife, and an old cow that has lived with them for thirty years. The film calmly shows the relationship ...

Wide Angle

• Tadashi Mori
• Japan,China
• 2008
• 99min

A documentary about pandas that have never lived in the wild forest. A friendly voice of a panda follows the life stories of giant pandas, bred and protected by human as they are o...

Wide Angle

• Roqiye Tavakkoli Gerdefaramarzi
• Iran
• 2008
• 10min

A young boy is about to take his grandmother on a much-desired visit to see his mother. Since his grandmother can’t walk, he finds a little cart to carry her through the narrow a...

Wide Angle

• Dorothee Wenner
• Germany
• 2008
• 80min

For decades, the accepted standard image of Africa has been one of impoverishment, bloody civil conflict, and the destination for foreign aid. That image is a Western media constru...

Wide Angle

• Moon Wonleep
• Korea
• 2008
• 61min

Rain seeks the metaphysical meaning of rain. The film interweaves the scenery before/after rain with interviews on memories related to rain. The interviewees tell their feelings an...