Wide Angle
NightingaleThis peculiar animated film is based on the fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen. One day Shakh was presented with a golden toy-mechanical bird, imitated nightingale singing. But the nightingale left, the Shakh was sick and almos...
Wide Angle
No Guitarist on Koong Koong Ttak PlanetSomething is missing from the gig by inhabitants of planet Koong Koong Ttak, that being a guitarist, the essence of a rock and roll band. Maybe they‘ve heard the entreaties by a second-timer on planet Earth. The film unfolds as a ...
World Cinema
No Place to GoMiddle-aged Hanna Flanders lives in a posh Munich apartment and hangs on to the faded fame she earned as a left-wing writer many years ago. Abuse of prescription drugs, make-up and flamboyant wigs can no longer cover up the pains ...
New Current
Not ForgottenEx-critic Makoto Shinozaki′s new feature is rich enough to seem like several films in one. At one level it′s a film about the trials and tribulations of old age - an urgent issue in Japan, where the birth-rate is slowing and the p...
Open Cinema
O Brother Where Art Thou ?McGill, a garrulous, silver-tongued, petty criminal, has difficulty adjusting to the regimentation of life as a man sentenced to a term of hard labor on a Mississippi chain gang. Finally, he scams his way off the chain gang with a...
World Cinema
Of Women and MagicClaire is an anthropology student - something of an eternal student as she is almost 30 years of age. Her life is one big collection of anxieties and frustrations: her parents are small-minded; her kid sister is always in trouble;...
Wide Angle
One Good DayOne Good Day is about a rascal girl created out of the author‘s childhood memories. She runs away from home afraid of the scolding she‘d get for breaking the rice jar; she soon forgets the whole thing and sets out on another one o...
Special Programs in Focus
OratorOrator discloses the dark side of the glory of the Russian Revolution through a compassionate gaze upon the people whose lives had been helplessly racked by its iron principles. The film poses the question, “can the changes induce...
Wide Angle
Oshima ’99In 1996, Japanese film director Nagisa Oshima was suddenly seized with cerebral apoplexy just after announcing the production of a new film. Although it was feared that he might be disabled for life, Oshima, after three long years...
World Cinema
Pan TadeuszCount Horezko is deeply preoccupied with sad thoughts about the loss of his family′s ancestral home when suddenly a figure appears before him that seems to have come straight out of the Middle Ages. It is an old and infirm man who...