Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 97min

‘American Alley’ a military campsite town, continues to accept new people. The ‘entertainers’ from the Philippines and Russia, the old women who cannot leave, and the women who continue to reside there must struggle against the wo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan
• 2008
• 80min

Together With My Father, a family drama by director Daniyar Salamat, portrays the warm love between father and son. Karim, a teacher of carpentry at a school, is divorced and living with his son Baysal. His ex-wife has remarried t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia,Iran,Thailand,Japan,Hong Kong,Indonesia,Philippines
• 2008
• 75min

Many Asian film directors have been expanding their portfolios to include directing music videos due to interests in the related field, wanting to experiment with new images, or to raise money for other film productions. PIFF has ...

Wide Angle

• Germany,China,Korea,Japan,Taiwan
• 2008
• 108min

Conductor Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker are the subjects of this documentary about the quest for musical harmony and perfection. The famed orchestra’s tour of Asia is chronicled in a film that brings vivid life to t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2008
• 122min

This film illustrates an endearing yet shocking rebellion by some fifth grade students. The story begins with Haruna’s pregnancy, and leads the audience into the ‘world of children.’ Meanwhile, the adults cannot understand the chi...

Special Programs in Focus

• JAPAN
• 2008
• 103min

Japan is the most active among Asian countries in animation. The influence of Japanimation on Asia’s animation industry cannot be denied. Japanese animation’s imagination and variety of subjects and genres often deal with the coll...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2008
• 85min

Fu-gui decides to sell his organs to make money for his father’s operation. He took several examinations and sold his kidney but never got the promised money. He came home without money, without a kidney, and without his father, w...

Midnight Passion

• Japan
• 2008
• 102min

The whole thing started out as a prank. Yukie and her friends lock their classmate, Kikukawa in an equipment room in the gym, to scare her. Though they let her out in the end, Kikukawa stopped coming to school the following day. Y...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2008
• 76min

Rana lives in the countryside with her widowed father. Her life is supported by two people: her disabled father and her lover Habib, who left to fight in the war and has never been heard from since. Her father feels sorry for her,...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania
• 2008
• 95min

It’s December 1989, the night before the revolution. A group of soldiers are ordered to patrol the chaotic city. While hesitating with fear to against angry citizen, young Costi run away despite of Lieutenant Neagu’s caution. Cost...