Special Programs in Focus

• Edward Yang
• Taiwan
• 2007
• 106min

Regarded as the inaugural work of the “Taiwanese New Cinema,” In Our Time is an anthology in four sections showing the passage of life, with each section surrounding a lead in primary school, secondary school, university, and soci...

Midnight Passion

• Julien MAURY,Alexandre BUSTILLO
• France
• 2007
• 85min

Sarah, a young photographer is by herself on Christmas eve. She′s been alone since her husband died tragically in a car accident. Today is the last day she has to spend at home before going to hospital to induce labour. The calm i...

World Cinema

• Tatiana VORONETSKAYA
• Russia,Ukraina
• 2007
• 116min

Set in the city of Tiflis (now Tbilisi) in the early 1900s, this period melodrama about a mysterious couple trying to navigate their way through life and their relationship. Vladislav Eschenbach and Sofia Pshebyshevskaya play the ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• YUKISADA Isao
• Japan
• 2007
• 144min

In a remote countryside village of an uncertain time period in Japan ? though unlike Japan ? elders are gathered to oppose an airport that is to be built nearby. Ryosuke transfers to a school in the village when his father, a gove...

Wide Angle

• TAN Pin Pin
• Singapore
• 2007
• 60min

Invisible City is a documentary about documenteurs of Singapore. The director interviews photographers, journalists, film directors, archaeologists, people propelled by curiosity to find a Singapore for themselves. Interspersed wi...

World Cinema

• Csaba BOLLÓK
• Hungary
• 2007
• 93min

When Csaba Bollok first encountered Maria Varga, she was scrounging just as her character does in Bollok’s powerful and moving tale of a preteen girl bound for a life of poverty and misery. In a gloomy Romanian mining town, Iska’s...

World Cinema

• Ken LOACH
• UK,Italy,Germany,Spain,Poland
• 2007
• 96min

Known for his politically and socially charged films, Ken Loach returns with a drama examining the consequences of the exploitation of immigrant labor. Angie and her roommate Rose ? sick of working for someone else ? open a busine...

World Cinema

• Baltasar KORMAKUR
• Iceland
• 2007
• 94min

Adapted from the novel by Arnaldur Indridason, Jar City is a noir thriller of sorts that spans 30 years and encompasses an entire nation. Police inspector Erlendur is investigating a brutal murder of an elderly man where the only ...

Flash Forward

• Shira GEFFEN,Etgar KERET
• Israel,France
• 2007
• 78min

Jellyfish is a serio-comic ensemble wherein multiple lives intersect and occasionally touch. Laced with a whimsy to complement the angst, the characters live their lives against the backdrop of an allegorical sea. Among them are c...

Wide Angle

• Batmunkh Sukhbaatar
• Germany,Mongolia
• 2007
• 31min

11-year-old Mongolian boy Buma dreams of flying through the sky on a glider he makes himself.