Wide Angle
Sugar LandSugarland is the name of an ancient city where fun stories unfold.
Midnight Passion
Sukiyaki Western DjangoThe white clad Genji, led by Yoshitsune and the red clad Heike led by Kiyomori, face off once again in a poor mountain town. Both sides searching for a legendary treasure that may be buried there. A lone gunman, burdened with emot...
A Window on Asian Cinema
SUMMER′s TailA coming-of-age story by Wen-Tang Cheng, who has been telling stories of the native and the isolated. The youth rebel and are passionate out of control, yet they still hold onto innocence. Four high school teens ? music-loving Yve...
World Cinema
Summit CircleThe second film in a planned trilogy based on the virtues started with The Novena continues with Summit Circle. Arrested after firing a shotgun at an expensive house in Montreal, the events that brought Rejeanne to that point comp...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Sweet DreamSweet Dream is the oldest existing film in Korean history. But Ae-sun, the main character, is not a naive and conventional woman. Pursuing money and sexual desire, she abandons her family to shack up with her lover in a hotel. Upo...
Special Programs in Focus
Taipei StoryTaipei Story is a pairing of the masters with Yang at the helm and HOU Hsiao-Hsien as his leading man, playing a former youth national baseball team member, but relegated to guarding an aged fabric store with old values. As her gi...
Wide Angle
Tear DropsThrough the death of his maternal grandfather on November, 2001, the director learns more about the complicated stories of his maternal grandmother’s family. In the small village where his grandmother’s family lived, there were fe...
Special Programs in Focus
TerrorizersA girl tries to evade police arrest by jumping from a window. A young passerby comes to her assistance. Afterwards, this young man blows up a series of the girl’s headshots, reminding the audience of Michelangelo Antonioni after T...
Special Programs in Focus
That Day on the BeachYang’s debut feature is also Christopher Doyle’s debut as feature film cinematographer. Jia-Li’s (Sylvia Chang) husband has disappeared, a hint at a beach suggests that he was drowned at the sea but no body was found. The film foc...
Midnight Passion
The AbandonedAn American film producer named Marie returns to her homeland, Russia, where her Mother’s dead body has been found under bizarre circumstances. She never knew her, having been adopted and brought to America as a baby. The only clu...