A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2008
• 87min

The film River People is a combination of documentary and fiction, telling a story of a family living on the Huanghe River in Shanxi province in China. Laba and Baowa are cousins and best friends. For them, the boat is home and a ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania
• 2008
• 40min

Liviu is having nightmare for weeks. Nothing he can remember when he wakes up but things around look different afterwards. He has been in relationship with his best friend’s fiancee, butnow she is about to move to Italy followed a...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 20min

2008 Busan HD Project The main character meticulously maps out a schedule to complete her thesis, but trivial things bother her and get in the way. The clock seems to tick faster and she feels more and more pressed for time... T...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2008
• 110min

This film is a horror chronicle adapted from Russian author Gogol’s VIY. A witch has never surfaced in Korean culture; it was only an existence in imaginations through western novels. The director Park Jin Sung recalls this memory...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania
• 2008
• 45min

13-year-old Andrei lives in the slum outskirt of Bucharest. Fell in love with newcomer prostitute Marilena at first sight, Andrei now only shoot for driving trolley bus to get her heart. Cristian Nemescu died in car accident at h...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines,United States,India,Canada
• 2008
• 89min

Song and dance, exaggeration, characters with clear good or bad natures, and happy endings are common aspects in Bollywood movies and animations. The Indian animation industry is shifting its focus from OEM to original animation d...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2008
• 82min

n the opening credits, a drunken man appears. He repeatedly shouts ‘another drink’, finally biting the glass when the bartender refuses to give him another drink. This man is Francis Bosco, a deteriorated magician. He has a ten-ye...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2008
• 10min

The public toilet can be a potential site of contagion and contamination. So what better setting could there be for a love story that takes place during Singapore′s SARS crisis?

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2008
• 90min

The story of a baby born as a messiah going though hardship and adventure and finally beating evil is a narrative that frequently appears in Asian animations. The Buddhist outlook of the world in Maju is told through the coming-of...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2008
• 19min

Generations of Jeju Island women have taken up the mantle of becoming sea divers. In months with one of the few remaining tribes, director Chae documents the impact that diving has had on the lives of the last mermaids.