Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 28min

Hyun-joo, a top-class student, suffers from emphysema. She wakes up one night, and is surprised to see some unknown black creature coming out from her nostril. In the morning, she finds out emphysema is magically gone. However, sh...

World Cinema

• Italy,France
• 2006
• 120min

The image of the boat drifting into New York harbor past Ellis Island is a mythic one, used in countless films about the immigrant experience. Emanuele Crialese grounds his tale of immigration in the mythic and the wondrous, much ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2006
• 100min

This is the story of an independent film director′s struggles in trying to get his film screened for the public. It′s a black comedy revealing the shadow world beneath Bollywood where almost 1000 films are made every year and some...

World Cinema

• Bosnia and Herzegovina,Austria
• 2006
• 90min

Esma, a single mother living in the Grbavica neighborhood of Sarajevo, is compelled to deal with history when her 12-year-old daughter Sara demands proof that her father died a martyr in the war. In actuality, Sara is the product ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2006
• 107min

Half Moon is the continuation of Bahman Ghobadi`s [A Moon in Iraq]. Like the musical family in his film [A Moon in Iraq], where the main character was looking for his wife, the great Kurdish musician Mamo and his sons are on their...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2006
• 127min

A revisionist piece of samurai drama. This is the story of a faint-hearted samurai who lacks both good swordsmanship and the proper sense of duty by which to avenge his father`s death. The plot and characters may be entirely diffe...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2006
• 75min

Abdullah gets a prized position from his father a harmonica. Now all the boys in the village paying Abdullah money, or bribing him with food or sweets - the boys pay for the ability to play are scrambling to get a chance to play i...

World Cinema

• USA,Cambodia
• 2006
• 113min

The agonizing subject of child prostitution is at the center of [Holly], the debut film from writer Guy Moshe. The complex relationship between 12-year-old Holly and American antiquities dealer Patrick begins when they meet in a C...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2006
• 110min

It is 1965 and in Japan, the country has started to shift from coal to oil. One by one the old mining towns begin their long slow decline, but for one small town way up north, its leaders and the local mining company aim to build ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,Austria,France
• 2006
• 115min

The work of Tsai Ming0liang is becoming more and more minimalist while the symbolism becomes more and more profound. In [I Don`t Want to Sleep Alone], he explores the minds of three characters through an extreme use of scant dialo...