Special Programs in Focus

• Malaysia
• 2007
• 98min

Dancing Bell, a film by Deepak Kumaran Menon, is about a poor Indian family in Malaysia. Muniammah, a flower seller, has an 11 year-old daughter, Uma, who dreams of becoming a dancer. However her dream remains far from coming true...

World Cinema

• Sweden
• 2007
• 90min

Eva is the spoiled young woman at the center of Johan Kling’s black comedy of morality. In modern Stockholm, the affluent Eva’s biggest concerns on any given day are where her next expensive vacation is going to be; she holds down...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 90min

Traditionally, women of mining villages in Bolivia have only picked off small amounts of ore from stones thrown away outside the mines. But in Chorolque, a South American mining village 5600m above sea level that produces tin, wom...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2007
• 125min

There’s a tiny village in a sparsely populated desert region close to the border between Mongolia and China, and Hangai insists on staying there while his wife leaves the village when their daughter falls ill. Hangai is trying to ...

Wide Angle

• Finland
• 2007
• 5min

Hokkanen and Ruippo explore the last remaining vestige of the Cold War: the Korean DMZ. The 2000-meter neutral zone that separates North from South is a place where hostilities stopped without a peace treaty, giving rise to one of...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2007
• 104min

Sang-yeon, Cheong-gook and Woo-seok are childhood friends who are now trying to find their own way of life. College student Sang-yeon, soon to start his military service, is busy with classes and a part-time job. Cheong-gook, who ...

World Cinema

• Iraq,France,Germany,Kurdistan
• 2007
• 90min

The world’s pre-eminent examiner of the plight of Iraqi Kurdistan follows up the acclaimed Kilometre Zero with this metaphoric political journey. When Azad’s wedding ceremony disintegrates into an armed conflict with the provocati...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2007
• 94min

Sang-won becomes a member of her vocational high school band called Magnolia. Members of Magnolia begin to practice with the band of neighboring boy’s high school as recommended by their seniors. As they work together, friends bec...

World Cinema

• the Netherlands,Ukraina
• 2007
• 110min

Bob is an intellectual film critic visiting an obscure festival in Kiev. While there, he meets the friendly Duska. Believing he’ll never take him up on the offer, Bob leaves Duska with an open invitation to visit him in Holland. M...

New Currents

• China
• 2007
• 79min

A woman confesses before the camera about an appalling sexual experience that she had undergone when she was younger, and various people state their opinions on her dreadful nightmare. Through the documentary-style film, director ...