Wide Angle

• 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 between the laboring cow and the farmer. Although ...

Midnight Passion

• Japan
• 2008
• 107min

1950. Orochi, a mysterious young girl, comes into the mansion of the Monzen family seeking shelter from a storm, and goes to work there as a housekeeper. The owner of the house is Aoi Monzen, the greatest star of the silver screen...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2008
• 110min

The scale of the world of children is broader than that of adults, because children also have access to the imaginary world while grown-ups only adhere to reality. Nevertheless, children want to become grown-ups as quickly as poss...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy
• 2008
• 114min

Winner of the Palme d’Or and the film that brought the Tavianis international acclaim, Padre padrone pivots on a young Sardinian boy’s recruitment as a sheep herder and his subsequent break from his overbearing father by demanding...

Wide Angle

• 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 on the verge of extinction. This exquisite document...

World Cinema

• Turkey,Belgium,France,Germany
• 2008
• 112min

Pandora’s Box is a story of alienation and isolation. It is a story of individuals whose lives have been shaped by a sterile middle-class morality. It is a story that many people, in developing and/or developed countries touched b...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2008
• 106min

Whether you like it or not, city life creates situations where one must share a space with another. Although they may not mean any harm, the insensitivity when one does not take others into account can sometimes become a serious t...

Wide Angle

• 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 alleys and passages - right up to the desolate ceme...

Wide Angle

• 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 construct that is nearly the one the world recognizes-som...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2008
• 92min

Is it possible for a woman to be independent in today’s China? This is the question posed by the director Emily Tang in Perfect Life. Emily Tang searches for the answer through a mixture of documentary and fiction. Yueying Li drea...