World Cinema

• UK
• 2006
• 91min

Mixing interviews with dramatic, gritty DV recreations, the film chronicles the two years three British Muslim men - Shafiq, Ruhel and Asif - spent in the US`s notorious Guantanamo Bay prison facility. In Karachi for a friend`s we...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2006
• 94min

A young boy who lost his home during the war, Amiro now lives in an abandoned ship. He spends his days working odd jobs, until he realizes that the only way that he can realize his dreams is by enrolling in school. Hungry for know...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2006
• 112min

The Sakais lead typical mundane lives in Japan. There are no world-shaking events but they still have their problems. Masakazu, the father, is busy working hard and his remarried wife, Terumi, complains that he doesn`t take care o...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 12min

An Old man and an obese cat live in a small house in the middle of a vast sea. Their daily schedule is to push away the black sea that has covered everything, and recovering the blue sea. One day a bird and a terrible storm come t...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2006
• 11min

SUNG is a homeless veteran losing his mind on the banks of the L.A. River. Pursued by unseen forces, fighting unseen foes, Sung is ostensibly "just another lunatic." But as his invisible war continues, under bridges and in tunnels...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2006
• 98min

A modest yet ambitious feature debut by director Nakamura Mayu, who works in Japan and the US, describes the wandering years of high school girl Mizuho in `90s Kyoto. She doesn`t get along with her mother and rather depends on her...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2006
• 12min

There is a man running through the street, with his body dripping wet, and the other, a suspicious rider following him around by motorbike. What makes him running? Who is this suspicious man?

Wide Angle

• Vietnam
• 2006
• 12min

On a terrace in the old quarter of Hanoi, an aged father notices a parrot flying by and asks his son what it was. He asks the same question six times, which increasingly irritates his son. The son does not remember that 51 years...

Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 2006
• 154min

This is perhaps V.Shantaram`s finest work. At a time directors were still struggling to best utilise the advent of sound in India in 1931, Shantaram made such a sophisticated and daring film that shook society by the roots, but re...

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2006
• 82min

On her birthday, Jeanne, an actress, hears a secret from her mother about how she met her father on a trip to India, and that he is a Hindu Untouchable. Jeanne takes a role that she once rejected in order to take a journey to Indi...