Wide Angle
ConvenienceEccentric short film, “Convenience” is set at a remote gas station and tells the enigmatic tale of a very inconvenient event. Iconic Australian indie actor, David Field plays a shopkeeper who does his baffled best, to cope with a ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Four StationsA re-discovery of the hidden talent in Thai independents. Low society people living along the railway in four parts of Thailand are fighting for their lives amid lots of problems. In the North, while Tu Pu, an old monk, tries his ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
CaptiveViolence sneaks up on us, destroying our everyday lives. From political terrorism to kidnapping, the spectrum of violence is colorful. paints a panoramic picture of 20 international tourists who are held hostage by the Muslim sep...
Wide Angle
PlotThere’s a man in a superb house with a pool. His lover spends time swimming in a bikini. The man, rather than turning his eyes on her, is watching war news and forming an idea of a story about an Iraqi boy who fell a victim to the...
Open Cinema
PinocchioGeppetto, a lonely woodcarver, brings to life ? literally ? a wooden puppet he names Pinocchio. This mischievous boy skips classes and instead undertakes a variety of exciting adventures. Whenever he faces a challenge, a blue-hair...
Special Programs in Focus
Arabesques on the Pirosmani ThemeDocumentary short film by Sergei Paradjanov, representing the director′s personal view on the Heritage of the Georgian autodidact primitivism painter of the 19th century, one of the best masters of the world of “Naive Art” - Niko ...
Korean Cinema Today
PietaThis widely talked-about film is becoming a worldwide sensation simply with the name ′KIM Ki-duk.′ It is the film which for the first time in Korean film history won the Golden Lion in Venice Film Festival, and is selected as a Ko...
World Cinema
Pilgrim Hilltells the story of Jimmy Walshe, a middle-aged bachelor farmer living in rural Ireland. Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, Jimmy has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of the crumbling family farm on the outsk...
Wide Angle
SerenadeA Harana is a traditional Filipino serenade and Florente Aguila is the world’s renowned Harana musician. Aguila is seeking out a true Harana master. Once wooed to the girl’s heart, these Harana masters are now common farmers. Thei...
World Cinema
White BellyManel waits for the return of fog. Enric is focused on having his first sex. Furri, who has been disabled since childhood, works as an administrator at an art museum. During a village festival, the three friends wear together pupp...