A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2007
• 108min

Xiaolin and Xiaoli each walk through a long dark tunnel. The film exposes the dark shadow of modern China through the stories of two unrelated characters. Xiaolin, who earns money through physical labor, suffers from excessive sex...

Wide Angle

• Japan,China
• 2007
• 123min

Yasukuni Shrine was constructed in 1869 to commemorate war victims and remember the spirit of Japan. Today it also enshrines the memory of World War II war criminals. Its mere mention stirs pride amongst Japan′s right wing, but it...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 22min

In her first year of junior high school, So-young is suspected of cheating on her first examination. So-young persists in feigning ignorance and denies the accusation, and the suspicion falls on part-time teacher Young-sook instea...

World Cinema

• Sweden
• 2007
• 94min

“You, the living is about the human being, about her greatness and her miserableness, her joy and sorrow, her self-confidence and anxiety. A being at whom we want to laugh and also cry for. It is simply a tragic comedy or a comic ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2007
• 101min

Indian cinema brings to mind fantastic costumes and exciting song and dance. However, Arindam Mitra′s Zero Zone is far removed from such images. This film is a modern interpretation of Murder in the Cathederal, T.S. Elliot′s play ...

Critics` Choice

• Romania
• 2006
• 89min

One of the most profound moments of Romanian history occurred when dictator Nicolae Ceasescu was driven from office in 1989. In first-time filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu`s comedy, part time Santa Claus Piscoci, hung over history tea...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia,France
• 2006
• 93min

22 year old Sebastian is a house repairman who has nothing going on in his life with poor family to support. While he is at his work, he finds a letter, intended for someone else, with a train ticket and a set of instruction to pa...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 85min

President Roh Moo-Hyun breached his election pledge to maintain the Screen Quota and reduced it from 146 to 73 days. Because Korean government and capitals, and the trans-national capital and US government share the benefits of it...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 110min

The relocation and expansion of the US military base in Pyeongtaek, the Saemangeum tidal flat embankment, Dr. Hwang`s stem cell research, video horse racetracks, casinos in a dead mining town, workers struggling against labor casu...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2006
• 93min

Director Royston Tan refers to 4:30 a.m. as the loneliest time because it is too late to sleep and too early to wake, and the film earnestly describes that solitude. However the subject who speaks of it is different from other fil...