Wide Angle

• China
• 2006
• 181min

“Dashanzi 798,” a neighborhood in Beijing, has a reputation as a mecca for Chinese contemporary art. However, that is a reputation that has emerged only in the past few years. Shen Xiaomin portrays the lives of artists who work an...

World Cinema

• Russia,UKraine,Finland,UK
• 2006
• 139min

Fyodor Bondarchuk takes a page from Hollywood to tell the story of a group of soldiers from boot camp to combat during the last days of Russia`s Afghan war. Like the Vietnam films of the late-1970s and `80s, the squad at the cente...

Midnight Passion

• Hong Kong
• 2006
• 103min

Tang Monk Tripitaka and his three disciples ? Monkey king, Pig monk, and Sand monk are attacked by Root of All Evils and his disciples are captured. With a help of Monkey king, Tripitaka escapes with the Golden Pole, literally the...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2006
• 141min

Byung-du, the second-in-line-to-the boss of a small gangster organization, leads a seedy life violently forcing debtors to discharge their obligations for his own familial responsibilities. He complies with a request from Presiden...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran,France
• 2006
• 85min

The idea of this film, originally under a different title, came to me during my studies. At the time I often travelled from Tehran to my home town, Boroujerd, in the south-west of Iran. I often thought of the petrol station that ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 23min

Yeo-woon KIM, an 80-year-old grandmother has a crush on old man Mr. CHOI, a secondhand dealer. Upon hearing about the death of Mr. CHOI, KIM makes a reluctant visit to the senior citizen`s rest house where she meets a young shroud...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2006
• 109min

A fisherman, Yeongcheol, who lives in an island, arrives at a city in the hot summer to show a white shark to his friend, Jungu. Jungu who is busy with gambling somewhere does not show up, and the shark in Yeongcheol`s bag is goin...

World Cinema

• Denmark
• 2006
• 104min

[A Soap] is a tragic-comic revisionist soap opera, largely set in a single apartment building. The drama begins when Charlotte dumps her boyfriend and moves into an apartment upstairs from Veronica, a transsexual. Initially leadin...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2006
• 118min

Documentarian Bernard is in Rwanda, growing increasingly weary of the conflict and disease that afflict the nation. Gentille is a young waitress he meets and falls in love with. Regardless of their differences, they get married ju...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2006
• 99min

The letters of the title stand for the New York avenues that make up the city`s famous Alphabet City neighborhood ? home for drug addicts and angry young discontents. On these dilapidated streets, the lives of three young women co...