Wide Angle
Noiseman Sound InsectIn the distant future in a magical place called Cahmpon City, a mad scientist creates an enigmatic acoustic life form called Noiseman. Noiseman erases all music from the world by transforming it into crystals with a group of biker...
Special Programs in Focus
Nuit et BrouillardFrom 1948-58 Alain Renais made eight short films, of which Nuit et Brouillard is probably the best known. Dealing with German concentration camps, the film juxtaposes the past and the present, exploring the nature of memory and hi...
World Cinema
Of Freaks and MenSaint Petersburg, in the early years of the 20th century, the Stasovs and the Radlovs live in relative comfort. Dr. Stasov and his blind wife, Ekaterina, live with their adopted Mongolian Siamese twins. Radlov, a railroad engineer...
World Cinema
On Connait la Chanson"On connait la chanson" is a colloquial French expression which refers to those banal stories that everyone knows. That characters in the story are mediocre Parisians tuned into old songs, yet without any banality of boredom. A ma...
Wide Angle
On Earth as in HeavenA child is killed in an accident. Whose pain is greater, the person responsible, or the parent who has lost the child? Dead in their hearts, these adults wander in a limbo between heaven and earth, where the child runs holding the...
Special Programs in Focus
On the BeatOn the Beat is a subtly subversive portrayal of the Beijing city of the nineties, a desolate landscape of imposing skyscrapers sprouting out of stretches of improverished houses. Ning Ying likes to capture the collective with long...
Wide Angle
One Day of HitchcockWhere does an artist′s creative imagination come from? This short film examines the relationship between the director′s imagination and reality by posing Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense films, as protagonist. The simple y...
A Window on Asian Cinema
One Evening After the WarA large part of Savannah? family was exterminated by the Pol Pot regime. He now lives in the miserable, overcrowded capital scarred by war. In spite of the horrors he has seen, he overflows with life and boundless energy. On the o...
Open Cinema
Open Your EyesCesar has been leading a dream life of luxury and indulgence. One night, his best friend, Pelayo, introduces him to Sofia, a woman who instantly becomes the love of his life. That same night Cesar meets Nuria, a young woman who is...
Wide Angle
Our Four SeasonsThis film is a visual chronicle of the year-long fight of Sammi Special Steel workers for employment security. In December 1996, the Korean government rushed through a new labor bill legalizing mass layoffs in a nation where lifet...