Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 26min

The boy is 15 years old. Except the birthmark around one of the eyes, he looks no different than any ordinary student at junior high. We see him pilfering at classrooms and shoplifting at convenience stores. He keeps an eye on a g...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2006
• 137min

First-time filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck looks to recent German history for this gripping tale of what happens when an observer teeters over the line into participation. The time is just before the fall of the Berlin ...

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2006
• 10min

A simple story about Kay, an eclectic girl with all the beauty and sweetness and a guy who seems to fall for her. The simple yet charming guy, named Darren owns a bookstore and she is quite a regular customer. A conversation over ...

World Cinema

• USA
• 2006
• 90min

Based on the semi-autobiographical book by Armistead Maupin ([Tales of the City]), [The Night Listener] is a timely, understated thriller. Gabriel Noone is a writer agonizing over a recent break-up with his long-term lover. Workin...

World Cinema

• Serbia and Montenegro,Switzerland,Monaco,Spain
• 2006
• 95min

“Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad.” That is the defining motto of Voltaire`s [Candide], and it is the inspiration for this five-part film set in post-Milosevic Serbia. The black comedy is a stark il...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2006
• 110min

Even though this film is titled [The Postmodern Life of My Aunt], it is oddly about the main character`s pre-modern life. Middle-aged Ye Rutang has moved to Shanghai after separating from her husband. In Shanghai, she maintains wh...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2006
• 104min

The President`s Last Bang redramatizes assassination of the President Park on Oct. 26th, 1979. Mr. Kim, the head of KCIA, hears about a little dinner party at Gung-Jeong dong held by the president, and he goes there with his secre...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2006
• 19min

A boy bought one album entitled “The Quiet Happiness”, but to find no sound coming out from his CD player at all. Couldn`t stand being fooled, he demanded to get a refund by all means -- till the moment he truly heard the sound of...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2006
• 107min

Man-soo, a subway train driver, happened to hit a woman who jumped into the railway a few days ago, and it puts him into under critical mental status. Meanwhile, Hanna, a German language lecturer, was going to a short trip with he...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2006
• 114min

When we think of Chinese films that have addressed the topic of the Cultural Revolution, for the most part, we think of the Lost Generation One thing that [The Road] departs from is this stereotype. On one level, this film represe...