Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 106min

Regarded as the inaugural work of the “Taiwanese New Cinema,” In Our Time is an anthology in four sections showing the passage of life, with each section surrounding a lead in primary school, secondary school, university, and soci...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2007
• 156min

One of India’s top storytellers, Mani Ratnam directs an epic drama starring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai; it is a unique Bollywood movie about dance, song, and an enterpriser. Gurukant Desai is a man from a small village wh...

New Currents

• China,Korea
• 2007
• 97min

An impressive feature debut of Korean?Chinese director Guang Hao Jin. The film describes a man’s life who lives a divine punishment both physically and mentally. Zezhu loses both of his arms and lives alone in a mountain. He meets...

World Cinema

• the Netherlands
• 2007
• 80min

Roos and Martin are parents to a depressed 17-year-old, Isaac, who’s breaking into houses and increasingly withdrawing into himself. Together they seek a resolution, but are hampered by their shared past: they are divorced, but no...

World Cinema

• France
• 2007
• 90min

“When we edited the film, I was surprised to realize that contrary to expectations, the film was not about a woman who gets lost. In fact, it was about a woman who saved herself.” ? Gael Morel Morel’s exploration of the mourning ...

World Cinema

• Switzerland,France
• 2007
• 100min

Taking place over the course of one day, the disintegration of a contemporary Geneva family is told from the perspective of its three members: a betrayed wife, her adulterous husband, and their son. Serge regularly begins his day ...

Wide Angle

• France
• 2007
• 85min

Her older sister, actress Sandrine, directed this sensitive, informative, and moving portrait of Sabine Bonnaire. For almost three decades, Sabine’s autism was undiagnosed, resulting in a disastrous five-year stint in a psychiatri...

World Cinema

• France
• 2007
• 100min

The Cannes Film Festival celebrated 60 years in 2007, and to mark the occasion, 35 of the world’s most prominent, innovative, and respected filmmakers created a three-minute film to relay how he or she feels about the cinema right...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2007
• 112min

A murder is committed in a small island of 17 residents. Duk-su who was with the victims playing card games becomes a suspect but cannot be found. While the manager of the health center and a female teacher investigate the case, i...

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2007
• 12min

A very unhappily married couple on their wedding anniversary.