Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2006
• 86min

A naked Martian visits Earth. Xiao Bo brings him home so that they can learn from and about each other. The lessons start with basics (the land, the water), but before you know it they`re investigating spray-on cologne, baseball a...

Wide Angle

• China,Korea
• 2006
• 123min

The story provides an insight in to the life of four miners. From a remote village in the northeast of China, Old Cao, Little Cao, Yu and Zhang make a living by mining granite. Life is dull and hard, work from dawn to dusk. Their ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2006
• 98min

At first glance, [Story of Pao] is histrionic; it is a melodrama ling of a woman`s suffering from pre-modern patriarchal society. Based on a true story, however, Ngo Quang Hai shows a woman who searches for her own life. It is a s...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2006
• 75min

After his older brother dies in the war, Sung-gi returns home. However, his father, who opposed Sung-gi’s marriage, rejects him. After much anguish, Sung-gi follows his brother to the war, leaving his impoverished wife to give bir...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,France
• 2006
• 135min

[Summer Palace] is the new film by Lou Ye, one of the most talented and ambitious of the emerging crop of Chinese directors. This film, shown in competition at Cannes, portrays the lives of men and women who suffered the political...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2006
• 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. Up...

World Cinema

• Israel,Germany,Japan,France
• 2006
• 100min

Writer Dror Shaul was the first Israeli artist to be accepted into Sundance`s prestigious screenwriter`s lab, and [Sweet Mud] is the bittersweet film that resulted from his work there. It is 12-year-old Dvir`s bar mitzvah year, an...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand,France
• 2006
• 105min

The film ls about a `flow`; it never dwells in any conventional cinematic form or in completed structure. To create the `flow`, Weerasethakul focuses on the dialogues from daily lives. Those dialogues, however, lead us nowhere in ...

Midnight Passion

• Hungary
• 2006
• 91min

Three stories. Three ages. Three men. Grandfather, father, son. One is an orderly, one is a leading sportsman, and one is a master taxidermist. One desires love, the other success, and the third immorality. This bizarre comedy is ...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2006
• 92min

In Australia`s far north almost a millennia ago, Dayindi covets his older brother Minygululu`s third wife. Minygululu decides to tell him an ancient myth to help set him on the right path. The story he tells, told in vivid flashba...