Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2007
• 97min

A Coachman was awarded the Silver Bear at the 11th Berlin Film Festival, becoming the first film to showcase Korean Cinema to the Western world. In it, KIM Seung-ho plays HA Chun-sam, a horse driver who struggles with debt, barely...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 125min

The new east Taipei suburbia is the background for A Confucian Confusion. Through quick tempo and unending dialogues, it delves into the shrewd notions of romance and money of the nouveau middle-class, even art and religion has be...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 34min

At dawn, Mr. Moon and his wife have a short encounter in front of the house as he leaves for work and she returns from work. It is their daily routine but this reality feels especially depressing today for Mr. Moon. Neither a socc...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2007
• 114min

Chang-soo (KIM Seung-ho) is a teacher who lives with his wife and son in a rented house on the outskirts of Seoul. He has no talents other than teaching, a fact that his wife constantly laments. One day, he dreams of pigs, which i...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2007
• 121min

Eighth-grader Soyo lives in a very small rural village of Japan where the primary and middle school share a building for all of 6 students. They spend a happy childhood together playing around the village. Osawa, a boy from Tokyo,...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 14min

On a hot summer day, a man wearing a sweater coughs as he walks. He enters an underground, gruesome restaurant and orders fried rice. The restaurant owner swears to customers who leave food on their plate unfinished and he struggl...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 173min

Centered around a Taipei middle-class family: the Father (Wu Nien-Jen), a partner in a computer company facing career dilemma is reunited with his first love; the Mother tries to seek deliverance from her empty life through religi...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2007
• 105min

KOO Jun-Tek (KIM Seung-ho) is the head of a large, three-generation family. When his daughter begins to work at the same company, he becomes nervous, always wondering if his life at the workplace is being exposed. One day, his bos...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2007
• 38min

A husband finds a fugitive in his home and thinks his wife has betrayed him. He accidentally dies, stabbed by a knife he meant for others, and his wife gets arrested with an unjust accusation. The prosecutor of her case turns out ...

World Cinema

• France
• 2007
• 107min

Actresses is about a “middle-aged woman who feels, all of a sudden, that she’s woken up. As if she’d been asleep all her life, living in a dream, removed from reality. She’s an actress. Acting is her job. She’s lived on stage, lov...