Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2007
• 11min

Although they are in the same place, a prison guard and a prisoner lead completely different lives.

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2007
• 91min

Like Peter Weir’s Witness on the surface, this lyrical, sensual, mature romantic thriller features characters that are forced to confront the violent outside world ahead of an awakening that heals emotional wounds. When Tahmeena, ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 90min

In 2006 (two years after the prostitution prevention laws took effect), the film looks at how the prostitution business in Korea has changed and what the women are doing now. During the Japanese occupation, Wan-wol-dong used to be...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2007
• 91min

In director Thomas Arslan’s own words, “A family for me is a complex emotional field with strong attraction and repelling forces. The interesting thing about families is that you have a framework binding a group of people together...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2007
• 110min

This year’s distinctive animation shows the surprising evolution of Japanimation. The production team of the first Japanese full CG animation, Appleseed (2004), gathers again. In 2067, Japan closes its gates to the world to sus...

Special Programs in Focus

• Malaysia
• 2007
• 72min

In Malaysian history, the communist party played a big role in fighting and claiming independence against Japanese occupation and the English colonists. The Malaysian government tries to take advantage of the fact that the majorit...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2007
• 60min

It is August, 1945 and Han-joong, in prison due to a friend’s betrayal during the independence movement, breaks out of prison with a serious injury and ends up hiding at nurse Hye-ja’s house. He hears that his friend is arrested w...

World Cinema

• Latvia
• 2007
• 95min

From a burgeoning Eastern European cinema industry that boasts Laila Pakalnina, Cristi Puiu, Corneliu Porumboiu, and Agnes Kocsis comes this omnibus of shorts by some of Latvia’s most promising young filmmakers. Four short films t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Malaysia
• 2007
• 70min

The last film of the trilogy on love by James Lee, following Before We Fall in Love Again and Things We Do When We Fall in Love. James Lee, one of the new generation of independent filmmakers in Malaysia, takes three couples livin...

Wide Angle

• Mexico
• 2007
• 14min

Teenaged Sofia and Jonas must decide on their futures and whether to abandon their small Mexican hometown in this Palme d’Or-winner for short film in 2007.