Wide Angle
Power of PeopleThe star of Korean general election 2000 is none other than the word, boycott. 412 civic organizations joined together to keep corrupt and incompetent candidates from being re-elected. Campaigning for their defeat rather than vict...
Wide Angle
Price of KnowledgeDay by day, 11-year-old Sherab Dorji, living in a remote village in Buhtan, walks three hours to school. His parents are constantly afraid of their child meeting up with wild animals along the path and pray everyday. Director Ugye...
Wide Angle
Princes & PrincessesIn this imaginative film of silhouette animation, a girl and a boy stage fantastic shows in a theater with the help of an old derelict technician. They transform into the hero and heroine of six short tales, travelling between the...
World Cinema
Purely BelterGerry is still at school and his best mate Sewell is unemployed. Owning two season tickets to their beloved football club is their biggest dream of all. The tickets cost 1000 pounds. But they′re nothing if not resourceful. While t...
Wide Angle
RayA portrait of the world-renowned filmmaker, Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), hailed as the god of the Indian cinema. Ray was born in Calcutta in 1921, and raised in an atmosphere that was both artistic and intellectual. After studying ec...
Korean Panorama
Real FictionIt′s not unusual to witness surrealistic images in Kim Ki-Duk′s films, as they often cross the line between reality and the imagination. Even with such a title as ′state of reality (the direct translation of the original Korean ti...
Wide Angle
Red Rubber BootsJasna P. is one of the many desperate mothers completely destroyed by the war in Bosnia. Her husband, four-year-old son Amar, and nine-month-old daughter Ajla were allegedly killed by Serb soldiers, their bodies thrown into mass g...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Reef HuntersReef Hunters is an allegory about a man′s ambition and despair, which in turn threatens a group and drives him to destruction. Various dramatic motives constitute the structure of this film: the dark memories of a man who has lost...
Wide Angle
Run of the MillThe main character of this film, a young man, grows up inside a bubble. Narcotics have created a membrane around his soul. He cannot break out by himself, and his gravely distressed parents are unable to reach him. His peers grow ...
Korean Panorama
Secret TearsDriving while intoxicated, Ku-Ho hits Mijo and takes her home in a flurry. Strangely enough, she has no bruises whatsoever and, the very next day, she is found to suffer from amnesia and is unable to speak. Ku-Ho′s guilty conscien...