Special Programs in Focus

• Satoshi KON
• Japan
• 2006
• 90min

One of the most ideal topics for animation is the `world of dreams`. Kon Satoshi`s [Paprika], based on the film by Tsutsui Yasutaka, unfurls a novel world of sci-fi animation, whic...

Special Programs in Focus

• Jean-Luc GODARD
• France
• 1965
• 110min

Ferdinand is an ex-Spanish teacher living with a wealthy Italian wife. When a beautiful babysitter, Marianne, comes into Ferdinand`s life a mysterious air comes along with her ? an...

Special Programs in Focus

• Madhura Pandit Jasraj
• India
• 1988
• 100min

This is an encyclopaedic documentary on V.Shantaram by his daughter Madhura Jasraj. While it follows the traditional, chronological long-winded format in telling his story, it is i...

Special Programs in Focus

• Patrice LECONTE
• France
• 1996
• 102min

In late 1770, France is on the verge of the revolution. A country nobleman visits Versailles seeking the funds to drain the festering swamp back home. All he receives is icy treatm...

Special Programs in Focus

• Amir NADERI
• Iran
• 1985
• 94min

A young boy who lost his home during the war, Amiro now lives in an abandoned ship. He spends his days working odd jobs, until he realizes that the only way that he can realize his...

Special Programs in Focus

• Amir NADERI
• Iran
• 2005
• 86min

Comprised of only a handful of scenes and even fewer lines of dialogue, this experiment in ambient sound design is minimalist even by Naderi`s extreme standards. It`s also marks a ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram
• India
• 1957
• 140min

V. Shantaram was at the peak of his form when he made Two Eyes, Twelve Hands. It was a series of superb films he made in his own independent studio Rajkamal Kalamandir, on the prob...

Special Programs in Focus

• Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram
• India
• 1937
• 154min

This is perhaps V.Shantaram`s finest work. At a time directors were still struggling to best utilise the advent of sound in India in 1931, Shantaram made such a sophisticated and d...

Special Programs in Focus

• Amir NADERI
• Iran
• 1989
• 74min

In a drought-stricken southern region of the country, a small boy sets out in search of his missing parents. To escape famine the inhabitants are emigrating from the area, and when...

Special Programs in Focus

• Edward Fu
• Singapore
• 2006
• 86min

Those who were born in the year of the monkey are known to be dexterous, and those born in the year of the pig ? on a winter night ? are known to have comfort all their lives. With...