World Cinema

• Chantal AKERMAN,Wang BING,Vincente FERRAZ,Pedro COSTA,Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL,Ayisha ABRAHAM
• Portugal
• 2007
• 105min

Shorts by directors from around the world illuminate and contextualize the world as it is today. From Wang Bing comes Brutality Factory, the story of a building site where the ghosts of the past tell their tales. Tarrafal from Ped...

Wide Angle

• Babak Nazari
• Iran
• 2007
• 13min

Sugarland is the name of an ancient city where fun stories unfold.

Midnight Passion

• MIIKE Takashi
• Japan
• 2007
• 121min

The white clad Genji, led by Yoshitsune and the red clad Heike led by Kiyomori, face off once again in a poor mountain town. Both sides searching for a legendary treasure that may be buried there. A lone gunman, burdened with emot...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Cheng WenTang
• Taiwan,Hong Kong
• 2007
• 98min

A coming-of-age story by Wen-Tang Cheng, who has been telling stories of the native and the isolated. The youth rebel and are passionate out of control, yet they still hold onto innocence. Four high school teens ? music-loving Yve...

World Cinema

• Bernard ÉMOND
• Canada
• 2007
• 98min

The second film in a planned trilogy based on the virtues started with The Novena continues with Summit Circle. Arrested after firing a shotgun at an expensive house in Montreal, the events that brought Rejeanne to that point comp...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• YANG Ju-nam
• Korea
• 2007
• 47min

Sweet Dream is the oldest existing film in Korean history. But Ae-sun, the main character, is not a naive and conventional woman. Pursuing money and sexual desire, she abandons her family to shack up with her lover in a hotel. Upo...

Special Programs in Focus

• Edward YANG
• Taiwan
• 2007
• 110min

Taipei Story is a pairing of the masters with Yang at the helm and HOU Hsiao-Hsien as his leading man, playing a former youth national baseball team member, but relegated to guarding an aged fabric store with old values. As her gi...

Wide Angle

• MUN Jeong-hyun
• Korea
• 2007
• 90min

Through the death of his maternal grandfather on November, 2001, the director learns more about the complicated stories of his maternal grandmother’s family. In the small village where his grandmother’s family lived, there were fe...

Special Programs in Focus

• Edward Yang
• Taiwan
• 2007
• 109min

A girl tries to evade police arrest by jumping from a window. A young passerby comes to her assistance. Afterwards, this young man blows up a series of the girl’s headshots, reminding the audience of Michelangelo Antonioni after T...

Special Programs in Focus

• Edward Yang
• Taiwan
• 2007
• 166min

Yang’s debut feature is also Christopher Doyle’s debut as feature film cinematographer. Jia-Li’s (Sylvia Chang) husband has disappeared, a hint at a beach suggests that he was drowned at the sea but no body was found. The film foc...