A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2006
• 129min

A young man, Shou, leads a life of no significance until one day he is asked by his father to clean up the dead aunt`s house. As he empties her trash-filled flat, he finds himself becoming curious about her life. Kawajiri Matsuko ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2006
• 75min

The second feature film of Mani Hagigi. It is a sophisticated comedy based on an idea took from from iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami. This film describes the men′s struggle with the intractable boulder as an allegory for the natur...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 26min

The itinerary of father`s Christmas Eve, which is looked different but the same. Hyun-tae, who is an wild goose daddy, is going to the sea to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. At the same day, Kaka who`s working at the auto shop is...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bhutan,India
• 2006
• 95min

To Neten Chokling Rinpoche, a spiritual head of Bhutan, filmmaking is another way of spiritual practice. The legend of Milarepa, widely known to Tibetan people, can be a perfect vehicle for carrying a tragedy caused by the greed a...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2006
• 66min

A propaganda film produced as part of the “One National Body” policy put forth by Japan in 1937, which claimed Cho Sun and Japan to be one nation. Jeom-yong finally fulfills his dream of driving a military train. His younger siste...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2006
• 105min

Ming Ming is a 21st Century martial arts princess and lady Robin Hood who steals for love. Her Prince Charming is D, a maverick fighter and irresistible rogue who posted this challenge to his swarms of female admirers - give him 5...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2006
• 24min

Kiyoshi Tanokura announces that after 35 years of hard work, he has finally developed a time machine. One critic questions the moral implications, but Kiyoshi brushes him off ? moral problems belong to philosophers, not engineers....

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 24min

Kang-sik`s speech-impaired single mother has raised him despite the fact that his father ran away from the home and the family. A martial artist, Kang-sik quits fighting because of an unfair judgment, and when his girl friend, Se-...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2006
• 41min

Documentarian Dai Sil Kim-Gibson is renowned for films that give voice to the voiceless and allow freedom for the oppressed. [Motherland] chronicles the lives of two Korean women in the post-Cold War years; one is a Cuban woman, a...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 27min

Han Jae-ho, who majored dramatics, thinks himself as a born actor, but actual life is totally different from his thinking. He fails at the audition over and over, and his parents start nagging him. In addition, his girlfriend seem...