Korean Panorama
Segimal (Fin de Siecle)Imagine Seoul at the turn of a brand new millennium: According to Song Neung-Han′s Segimal, Seoul is a filthy city, corrupted and rotten to the core. One doesn′t need any special rhetoric to describe such a city, just taking out t...
World Cinema
Seven Songs from the TundraThis anthology, consisting of seven short stories, takes the viewer to the isolated land of the Nenets. The Nenets inhabit the tundra in the far north of Russia. The first story, "sacrifice" depicts a chilly winter′s religious cer...
Wide Angle
ShadowsThe film touches on the subject of the widening gap between the rich and poor, the powerful and the insignificant, representative of the overall situation in the Philippines today. The story is about a down-and-out church photogra...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Sherina’s AdventureSherina is a tomboy who is good at singing, racing and climbing trees. Perhaps this is why putting band-aids on her knees seems to be her hobby. One day, her family leaves the big city of Jakarta to move to the country when her fa...
Wide Angle
SightThomas is a bed-ridden coma patient. He regains his desire for life from Abel, a patient in the same ward. Abel whose bed in near the window, describes the view outside. Abel′s ‘stories’ are translated into beautiful images to Tho...
World Cinema
Skin of Man, Hear of BeastAfter a 15-year absence, a man returns to his family clan in the provinces. His niece, the five year-old Aurelie, is the first to see him arrive. She instantly loves the mysterious stranger. Her older sister is more cautious about...
Wide Angle
Sky-Blue HometownFor the last thirty years, one artist has been evading the watchful eyes of the KGB, locking himself in a studio to work on a particular painting. He is Nikolai Shin (Shin Soon-Nam), a 2nd generation Korean-Russian immigrant, and ...
Wide Angle
So Far DistanceIn the middle of the road, a camel is being hoarded away on a truck. As it gazes in awe at the wonders of the city, it is unaware of its final destination, that being the butcher′s block. Even at its final moment, it recalls the h...
World Cinema
Some VoicesRay, a charming, enigmatic, loveable guy who is a little unstable, is trying to readjust to the outside world after years of being institutionalized. He has just been released into the care of this over-worked and over-protective ...
Open Cinema
Song of TibetBased on the original story by Zaxidawa, this film is set in Tibet and spans 50 years of love and hate between one beautiful woman, who represents motherhood, and three men who each represent authority, courage and intelligence. I...