Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2006
• 106min

The third in the human rights project after [If You Were Me] (2003) and [If You Were Me 2] (2005). The first episode, which stars the foreign migrant worker Muhammad, is enough to make one turn around and run away whenever one see...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• the Philippines
• 2006
• 116min

[Illusion] is a melodrama with eroticism and retro touches. Set in the late 1950s, the film shows retro touches in every aspect including dramatic structure, music, and performances. Also, with its surreal images, [Illusion] creat...

Critics` Choice

• United States,Canada,Korea
• 2006
• 82min

So Yong Kim`s debut feature is an unflinchingly naturalistic and painfully realistic look at adolescent displacement, both physical and emotional. Aimie and her single mother are new arrivals to the west confronting the challenges...

Wide Angle

• Mexico
• 2006
• 85min

Mexican City`s Periferico freeway is an exemplar of modern superstructures and large-scale infrastructure construction. But works like it still require human labor, and this documentary takes a look at the often-neglected contribu...

Wide Angle

• China,United States
• 2006
• 15min

Back to back, two vending machines stand in a corner of a dark street, trading goods for coins. They are not even aware of each other`s existence until a man and a woman meet for a date beside them.

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 12min

As if it`s a really funny story, So-jung tells her boyfriend Jung-in about how Hee-yeon had confessed her love for her. Jung-in quickly responds back as if it`s nothing new. However, they soon realize that it`s not a mere joke as ...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2006
• 123min

Based on a story by Raymond Carver, [Jindabyne] is a typically layered emotional study of people at a moral crossroads from acclaimed filmmaker Ray Lawrence. While on a fishing trip, Stewart and his friends discover the dead body ...

Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 2006
• 120min

Made just one year before India`s independence, the film is about a patriotic Indian doctor who goes to China to support the war effort when it has been attacked by the Japanese. Dr Kotnis was inspired by a real-life story of Dr D...

New Currents

• the Philippines
• 2006
• 105min

A story of a certain rock star that takes a leap back in time through his memory. After a band`s lead vocalist, Teddy, is murdered, another band member, Jett, loses his enthusiasm for music. One day, he is hit on the head by a rob...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2006
• 106min

[Kabul Express] pictures forty eight hours of two journalists, who cover Afghanistan and meet various people after 9.11. The movie deals with harsh reality, yet is a comedy. Kabir Khan, a long-time documentary director, presents t...