World Cinema

• Czech Republic
• 2007
• 119min

Themes of trust and betrayal inform this drama about 12 recovering drug addicts in a remote farmhouse. An aura of suspicion and lies hangs over the characters, with Roman, Milan, and Tom at the center of the storm. When Roman chec...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2007
• 38min

A husband finds a fugitive in his home and thinks his wife has betrayed him. He accidentally dies, stabbed by a knife he meant for others, and his wife gets arrested with an unjust accusation. The prosecutor of her case turns out ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2007
• 89min

Director Jeon Soo-ill could be the one who represents directors who are working independently until now from the 1990s when Korean films met its new tide. With a Girl of Black Soil is the first story of his new film series about 3...

World Cinema

• Italy,France
• 2007
• 104min

Based on the drama by Rocco Familiari, Black Sun is rooted in the facts of an event that transpired two decades ago. Agata and Manfredi is a young couple in Catania, deeply in love and growing happier as time goes by. When Manfred...

World Cinema

• Serbia
• 2007
• 90min

Before Serbian director Goran Paskaljevic shot to fame with the success of The Powder Keg (1998) and its critique of the Serbian war machine, he directed this contemplative, understated personal drama about a man falling into the ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2007
• 125min

There’s a tiny village in a sparsely populated desert region close to the border between Mongolia and China, and Hangai insists on staying there while his wife leaves the village when their daughter falls ill. Hangai is trying to ...

World Cinema

• Spain
• 2007
• 130min

Adela is a single mother living in the country with her father. She opts to move to Madrid for a better life, finding a roommate in Ines. Ines’ mother is Antonia, a widow and mother of three daughters. When Adela is on a bus that ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 257min

A complete departure from Yang’s previous works, A Bright Summer Day has nothing to do with the modern times, but through a juvenile murder case in the 1960s to reflect on the suppression, disorientation and loss of innocence when...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2007
• 111min

A woman turns the rooftop of a worn down Love Hotel into a park and opens it up to the public. She gives a glimmer of hope to the lonely hearts of the women from various age groups whom she encounters there. 13-year-old Mika, who...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 109min

A girl tries to evade police arrest by jumping from a window. A young passerby comes to her assistance. Afterwards, this young man blows up a series of the girl’s headshots, reminding the audience of Michelangelo Antonioni after T...