A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kabir KHAN
• India
• 2006
• 106min

[Kabul Express] pictures forty eight hours of two journalists, who cover Afghanistan and meet various people after 9.11. The movie deals with harsh reality, yet is a comedy. Kabir Khan, a long-time documentary director, presents t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kanala N.T. Sastry
• India
• 2006
• 70min

Through its critical perspective on serious poverty and preference ideology in current India, [Kamli] also puts an ethnographic eye on the Tribal Lambada, a nomadic tribe that has fallen down to the lowest social class by losing i...

Korean Cinema Today

• Jun Ik LEE
• Korea
• 2006
• 119min

In the Cho Sun dynasty, a local clown, Jang-seng, runs away to Seoul with Gong-gil, his lover-like friend who used to be the nobles` plaything. Jang-seng and Gong-gil, while performing a satirical play of a king with his new clown...

Wide Angle

• CHOI Hyun Jung
• Korea
• 2006
• 63min

2005 Uni Korea Fund/AND Fund When I was little, I was the curly-haired star in the "Anti-Communist Eloquence Competition". There was a painter who participated in the reproduction of the pre-historic drawings from the Lascaux c...

Open Cinema

• Rakesh Roshan
• India
• 2006
• 174min

A Bollywood-style superhero film. The concept of a superhero never deviates too much from its original Hollywood incarnation; look at Superman as an example. The transformation of an ordinary person into a superhero, a father who ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Denis DERCOURT
• France
• 2006
• 85min

Melanie is a teenaged girl dreaming of being a pianist. She takes piano lessons with the help of her hard-working parents. When she sits for the Conservatory entrance exam, she gets distracted by the strange behavior of Ariane, on...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Murali NAIR
• India,UK,France
• 2006
• 92min

[Life Is All About Friends], a project invited by PPP of 1999`s PIFF, is the first film of director Murali Nair`s new trilogy. Through the eyes of a child named Unni, the film captures the reality of Kerala, India, a small rural t...

World Cinema

• Aki KAURISMÄKI
• Finland
• 2006
• 80min

This is the film that completes a trilogy begun in [Drifting Clouds] and continued with [The Man Without a Past]. Rather than making the a series of connected films with clear cause and effect - unemployment leads to homelessness ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Haeyoung LEE,LEE Hey-jun
• Korea
• 2006
• 116min

A poor and fat boy, Dong-goo OH believes himself to be female and dreams of becoming a perfect woman like Madonna. He saves up money for a sex change operation by doing hard jobs, only to use that to pay for damages by his father`...

Wide Angle

• Gunnar BERGDAHL
• Sweden,Ukraina
• 2006
• 86min

Ljudmila & Anatolij is a film about love, sorrow and surviving in the shadow of disaster of Chernobyl. A mother and her son, and the everlasting struggle between memories and hopes. Gunnar Bergdahl returns to Kiev to follow up the...