Wide Angle
Second HandLaura has taken a school skirt on credit from the second hand uniform sale, but doesn? have the money to pay for it. Determined to resolve the problem by herself the next day at school, she finds herself in territory she has never...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Seventeen YearsLiu Li and Xiao Hong are stepsisters. They go to the same high school and sleep in the same room. Both are pretty, but there is intense rivalry between the two. Liu Li spends time with boys, but Xiao Hong, who works hard at her s...
Open Cinema
ShiriSinking the domestic box office record set by Titanic,Shiri is a prime example of the commercial trends dominating Korean cinema today. Kang Je-Gyu's ‘New Alternative Plan’blends together action and melodrama,planting Hollywood's ...
Wide Angle
Shoot the Sun by Lyric – The Fight for the Screen Quota in KoreaAs the sub-heading indicates, this video features the struggles of Korean filmmakers defending the screen quota system in Korea. This struggle begins on July of 1998, when the Ministry of Culture and Tourism proposes a reduction ...
World Cinema
Show me LoveElin and her teenage friends are growing up in the small town of Amal. Nothing ever happens until Elin makes an unexpected move-she goes to the wrong party-and her life takes a different turn. Stuck in the middle of two love inte...
World Cinema
SiberiaBest friends Hugo and Goof set up a scam picking up female backpackers newly arrived in Amsterdam. They sleep with them. rob them, then tear a page out of their passports to keep as a memento. The boys′ goal is to take a trip aro...
World Cinema
Simon the MagicianA crime is committed in Paris and the police have no leads. Given the complexities of the investigation, the authorities call upon a man with supernatural powers: the sorceror Simon Magus, a foreigner. He comes from the East and ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
So Close to ParadiseIn the late eighties, the Chinese Economic Reform that turned its eyes overseas brought enormous changes to people′s lives. In reality it was not very favorable to individuals, just as the Korean economic policy of the sixties an...
World Cinema
Somberman′s ActionHermman Broekman is a rather sultry introverted man aged about 35. He lives with his girlfriend Inez in a working-class area of a big city. He works in the storeroom of a large department store. But when the store goes bankrupt a...
Special Programs in Focus
Son of ManYu Hyun-Mok′s view of human salvation is bound to feature some form of religious concept.Not because he was a member of a certain religious sector, but because religion is something created by humans. In fact, Yu faced heavy prot...