A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2008
• 124min

The collaboration between Hitomi Kanehara, a leading and controversial young Japanese writer, and the Japanese play director Yukio Ninagawa made the top news. The original novel, full of body defilation, tattoos, and sadomasochist...

Midnight Passion

• Hong Kong,China,Taiwan
• 2008
• 80min

Wei is the “button man”, an expert cleaner for the gang, a man who comes after a murder scene, takes care of the victim, disposing the body and leaving no evidence behind. Wei’s partner and friend “Doc”, who has been selling the o...

World Cinema

• Austria
• 2008
• 121min

The latest film by provocative Austrian director Gotz Spielmann hinges on the random connection of four lives. Alex and Tamara live in Vienna, working in the city’s seedy sex trade. Robert and Susannah live in the idyll of the cou...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 20min

2008 Kodak Short Film Production Fund Yun-ah thinks her body reeks and refuses to eat. One day, during lunchtime, the kids in her class try to force Yun-ah to eat, but Sung-eun, the most studious student, tries to stop them and a...

Special Programs in Focus

• Malaysia
• 2008
• 90min

The characteristics of Malaysia, a diverse country, are reflected in the young characters of Budak Lapok. The original and creative characters in this animation clearly show the characteristics of each racial group through inciden...

Wide Angle

• Russia,Mongolia
• 2008
• 20min

A hungry boy returns home after school. He looks for candy but can′t find any. He spots the Buddha statue. On the altar, there is a container filled with sweets. Dare he take the candy from Buddha′s altar?

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2008
• 100min

If you want to explain the teachings and history of a religion to children, animation can be a perfect tool. The Buddha follows the hardships of Buddha. In this animation, a bright prince Siddhartha who was good at military art gi...

World Cinema

• Sweden
• 2008
• 98min

About ten years ago I played a computer game. The aim of the game was to build and maintain a city and all that it entails. It was played from a bird’s eye perspective, with humans represented by smalldots. I felt that the emotion...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2008
• 21min

An adolescent boy, Ashu, is caught between the emotional conflicts of his everyday life and his approaching manhood. From school bullying to his sexual awakening, Ashu is influenced by beauty and solitude of his habitat where he f...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 61min

Rain seeks the metaphysical meaning of rain. The film interweaves the scenery before/after rain with interviews on memories related to rain. The interviewees tell their feelings and experiences earnestly, seriously, and even with ...