Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 20min

The French Lieutenant’s Woman by director BAEK Seung-bin is a defining film of John Fowles’ novel of the same title; it is, at the same time, a parody of the writer. The mother believes her child’s father to be John Fowles, and he...

Open Cinema

• Korea
• 2007
• 105min

This second feature by LEE Young-jae is adapted from a Japanese novel. As in his previous film The Harmonium in My Memory, he visualizes the innocent emotion of a human in delicate sentiment. Ye-jun, Dong-hee, and Young-tan are cu...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2007
• 95min

Norwegian crime fiction author Karin Fossum’s popular and award-winning Inspector Konrad Sejer mystery Don’t Look Back is adapted to modern Italy in Andrea Molaioli’s debut feature. Set in a small Italian town, Inspector Giovanni ...

Flash Forward

• Russia
• 2007
• 82min

First time director Alexey Mizgirev tackles the thorny subject of corruption in contemporary Moscow through the filter of a young man just arrived in the city. Anton arrives from the country fresh out of the military and with only...

Midnight Passion

• China
• 2007
• 94min

In the classic era of Shanghai city, a filmmaker Junchu loses his lover by car accident just before he proposes to her. Nine months later, Junchu marries Susan to calm his mother’s superstitious fears. Despite Susan’s fervent cook...

Wide Angle

• Bulgaria
• 2007
• 100min

Set near the mouth of the Danube in northern Bulgaria, Belene is a city living in the shadow of horror. Located near a Communist-era concentration camp, the town’s dark legacy looms over everything and everyone as preparations for...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 113min

It is a road movie about people finding their true selves and overcoming heartaches through the medium of sound. Xiao Tang sends a tape of nature’s sounds he recorded himself to a former girlfriend without knowing she had moved aw...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2007
• 100min

The Naked Summer is film that documents young artists’ effort and growth while training and preparing for a performance of Butou that is praised internationally as a unique art form. Butou was born about 40 years ago as a form of ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2007
• 112min

An adaptation of the same-titled novel by HWANG Sok-yong. Hyun-woo passed 17 years in prison after the political dark age of 80s. Now that he gets released, Seoul is an unfamiliar city. He remembers Yoon-hee who had given him a re...

World Cinema

• Argentina,France,Germany
• 2007
• 83min

“Nobody recognizes us, because nobody knows us, and nothing and no one, is known by us. Therefore, why carry the burden of our own identity when we could freely choose it? Better this way. Free ourselves of all that makes us a spe...