Wide Angle

• KIM Taeil
• Korea
• 2008
• 43min

The documentary is about the life of a pharmacist who works in the country, the reality of the agricultural district, and also the thoughts of the director behind the camera. The d...

Wide Angle

• Helena Třeštíková
• Czech Republic
• 2008
• 83min

Rene is an attempt to portray some other form of life and to contrast our fast-paced era with the time-free life that exists in prison. It is an attempt to make a decent film that ...

Wide Angle

• Tae Junseek
• Korea
• 2008
• 80min

2008 AND Fund Project The film is set on the streets of Seoul where the autumn leaves are starting to fall. The camera, which wanders around Saemteo restaurant, stops in fr...

Wide Angle

• Chon Seungil
• Korea
• 2008
• 27min

Memory of May consists of five short animations capturing the memories of Gwangju. By showing different techniques in each work, the film is composed of various animation styles. S...

Wide Angle

• Ji-na Ryu,Il-hyun Kim,In-keun Kwak,Hae-young Lee,Eun-mi Lee
• Korea
• 2008
• 64min

The Story of Mr. Sorry is an adaptation of a story by Lee Juck, a well-known Korean musician and writer. The film unfolds a controversial debate on the assassination of a spider. T...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• KIM Ki-Young
• Korea
• 2008
• 93min

Ban Geum-ryun is an adaptation of the Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei(The Golden Lotus) which took several years to produce. Due to censorship, this four year project was abridged to n...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• KIM Ki-Young
• Korea
• 2008
• 108min

Commemorating the 10th anniversary of filmmaker Kim Ki-young, PIFF will screen The Housemaid in a digitally restored version by the World Cinema Foundation and Korean Federation of...

Special Programs in Focus

• Paolo Taviani,Vittorio Taviani
• Italy,France,United States
• 2008
• 117min

The Tavianis first English-language film is an ode to filmmaking and the Italian masters. After losing the family business, two brothers head to Hollywood to strike it rich, and wi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Mac C. Alejandr
• Philippines
• 2008
• 106min

Main characters of the Philippines superhero series are usually the lower middle class. They make a bare living and they hope for the better life with their supernatural powers, no...

Special Programs in Focus

• Yusry Abdul Halim
• Malaysia
• 2008
• 107min

It is interesting to see how Asian countries reinterpret the western superheroes. The reason the Cicakman stands out among Asian superheroes is that this superhero has the ability ...