World Cinema

• Nae CARANFIL
• Romania
• 2007
• 140min

It′s tough to have a famous daddy. 19 year old GRIG is the son of an enormously popular Romanian actor at the beginning of the past century. But his own record is somewhat disappointing… Too short for the stage, too shy with women...

Flash Forward

• Anais BARBEAU-LAVALETTE
• Canada
• 2007
• 90min

The Ring is a coming-of-age drama where 12-year-old Jessy sees his destiny and vows to fight it. Weighing down on Jessy is his brother’s life as a drug trafficker, his sister’s uncomfortable, burgeoning sexuality, a runaway junkie...

World Cinema

• Robert SEDLÁČEK
• Czech Republic
• 2007
• 119min

Themes of trust and betrayal inform this drama about 12 recovering drug addicts in a remote farmhouse. An aura of suspicion and lies hangs over the characters, with Roman, Milan, and Tom at the center of the storm. When Roman chec...

Wide Angle

• Tay-jou LIN
• Taiwan
• 2007
• 52min

A precious talent in Taiwanese cinema, Tay-jou LIN, directs a documentary about the agony and confusion of his young students. Having been a teacher at college for the last decade, LIN has selected three stories by his students an...

Wide Angle

• Nell Yen-ni Wang
• Taiwan
• 2007
• 27min

Hide-and-seek is Chia’s favorite game. Her dad promises to buy her a goldfish if she wins the game.

Korean Cinema Today

• Jae-rim Han
• Korea
• 2007
• 112min

KANG In-goo is the man of the family living busy routines as any other Korean men. His job isn’t so usual that he is a middle boss of a gangster organization. His life is constant conflict at home and at work. He comes to collisio...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• JIANG Wen
• China,Hong Kong
• 2007
• 116min

Life is full of riddles we cannot solve. Movies, at times, give us a better understanding of life by showing causal relations in life that are unknown to the characters - from an omniscient point of view. The Sun Also Rises unfold...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Wisit Sasanatieng
• Thailand
• 2007
• 97min

With his feature debut, Tears of the Black Tiger, rising Thai director Wisit Sasanatieng was said to have created the "Tom yam gung Western". His next film, Citizen Dog, displayed a buoyant and fanciful imagination. With these two...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• LEE Byung il
• Korea
• 2007
• 78min

The film is an adaptation of the play A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng written by O Yeong-jin. It is also the first Korean film to win an award at an international film festival. Local officer Maeng is excited about his glorious future...

World Cinema

• Amor HAKKAR
• France,Algeria
• 2007
• 83min

“I myself also had to take my father’s remains from France to his native village in the Aures. During those few days… I was sustained by the compassion and helping hands of strangers. I loved those men and women, who, when all is ...