World Cinema

• Ireland
• 2007
• 85min

“Josie is really a contemporary village idiot character but the Irish village doesn’t really have any place for him anymore. The film is really about those transformations in rural Ireland, which make Josie, and people like Josie,...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 37min

Ye-lin, a giraffe lover, falls in love with the teacher in her extracurricular activity group, who dreams of traveling to Africa one day. As their secret meetings repeat, they face a wall of reality standing higher between them. Y...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 119min

God and the dog each get respect and sympathy. Then why can’t a human get redemption? Ching, a hand model, cannot get over the sadness of losing her child; an alcoholic native man Biung, his wife A-Mei, and their daughter who live...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2007
• 14min

As grandma lies on her deathbed, her family gathers to get ready to say goodbye.

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2007
• 156min

One of India’s top storytellers, Mani Ratnam directs an epic drama starring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai; it is a unique Bollywood movie about dance, song, and an enterpriser. Gurukant Desai is a man from a small village wh...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2007
• 95min

“I wanted this film to be an enchanted story about the joys and pains of the journey into adulthood. Hallam is a damaged, confused and highly individualistic character, so his journey is far from conventional, but I hope his exper...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2007
• 120min

Dariush Mehrjui observes the life of a middle class middle-aged intellectual in Iranian society through Hamoun. He has made compromises in his dreams as a young man such as love, career and family, to deal with reality and at the ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2007
• 113min

Jin-wook is relocated to Seoul after finishing his training at Hanawon, the training institute for Korean refugees. On his first day in Seoul, Jin-wook gets lost after shopping for bedding. Jin-wook takes a cab to find his way bac...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 103min

LEE Kang-Sheng, aka the persona of the famed director TSAI Ming-Liang, returns with his second film, a 2004 PPP project. Ah Jie, a stock investor, loses everything he has in the stock market. He grows marijuana and spends all day...

Wide Angle

• France
• 2007
• 85min

Her older sister, actress Sandrine, directed this sensitive, informative, and moving portrait of Sabine Bonnaire. For almost three decades, Sabine’s autism was undiagnosed, resulting in a disastrous five-year stint in a psychiatri...