Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2007
• 104min

Mt. Sahwa is KIM Seung-ho′s final work, which he was also involved in as a producer. In Busan, 1950, KIM Eun-pal (KIM Seung-ho) gathers a crew to search for gold that was hidden by Japanese officials. Seven men form a group and le...

Special Programs in Focus

• Malaysia
• 2007
• 94min

Yasmin Ahmad, one of the renowned women directors of Malaysia, describes in detail a girl’s sentiments being awakened to the emotion of a first love. Orked is a 14 year-old tomboy who flies kites and climbs trees with a 12 year-ol...

Flash Forward

• Rwanda,United States,Hong Kong
• 2007
• 97min

The 1994 genocide in Rwanda has been explored in several films over the past several years, most notably in the high profile Hotel Rwanda and Shooting Dogs. But Lee Isaac Chung’s Munyurangabo is the most elegant and moving so far ...

World Cinema

• Brazil,France
• 2007
• 90min

Told from the perspective of a 10-year-old boy, Mutum tells the story of a disintegrating family in remote Brazil. Thiago, played by non-professional actor Thiago Da Silva Mariz, lives in isolation within isolation, with only his ...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2007
• 108min

The team that scripted 2003’s critically acclaimed The Best of Youth, Stefano Rulli and Sandro Petraglia, revisits Italy’s turbulent 1960s and ‘70s, once again with two brothers on opposite sides of the politics that divided the c...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2007
• 80min

20 year-old Hee-cheol has been making his living doing deliveries for a restaurant ever since graduating from high school. His father, who comes home only once in a while, is drenched in alcohol and violence. Therefore only his gr...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2007
• 90min

The war between Iran and Iraq lasted nearly 10 years and invaded the daily lives of civilians. Although the boy takes the bus daily to the front of the battle scenes like most of us commute to the office daily, what is displayed i...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,United States,France
• 2007
• 94min

A female bailiff’s strange meeting with the husband of a female criminal on death row. While bored with life and longing for change, Hongyan meets Li-Jun, husband of a woman she saw executed. For some unexplainable reason they are...

World Cinema

• UK,Canada
• 2007
• 134min

Like Derek Jarman and Ed Harris with Caravaggio and Pollock, Nightwatching features one artist positing theories on the life, work, and death of another. Peter Greenaway’s subject is Rembrandt, the Dutch master who died penniless ...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2007
• 102min

Swiss-born Italian resident Bruno Ledeux is a fortysomething man without a life or identity to cling to. He has been told he has a week to settle his outstanding bank debts, he fears for his job, and he just learned that he can ne...