Flash Forward

• Canada
• 2007
• 90min

The Ring is a coming-of-age drama where 12-year-old Jessy sees his destiny and vows to fight it. Weighing down on Jessy is his brother’s life as a drug trafficker, his sister’s uncomfortable, burgeoning sexuality, a runaway junkie...

Flash Forward

• Estonia,UK
• 2007
• 86min

Inspired by a true event, Magnus tells the story of a young man that neither parent expected to live beyond his mid-teens. With an ineffective mother on one side, and a hedonistic, oblivious father on the other, Magnus’ illness dr...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2007
• 97min

A Coachman was awarded the Silver Bear at the 11th Berlin Film Festival, becoming the first film to showcase Korean Cinema to the Western world. In it, KIM Seung-ho plays HA Chun-sam, a horse driver who struggles with debt, barely...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2007
• 121min

Eighth-grader Soyo lives in a very small rural village of Japan where the primary and middle school share a building for all of 6 students. They spend a happy childhood together playing around the village. Osawa, a boy from Tokyo,...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2007
• 76min

An adaptation of the play A Little Monk written by HAM Se-deok. A strict master monk pushes a young priestling, Do-sung, to recite a sutra but he is only a little boy who misses his mother and enjoys playing with friends. One day,...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 121min

In Mahjong, Taipei is not only a rapidly emerging city where young people are wasting their youth; it is also a playground which multinational interest groups wish to reap their shares. By following four young men trying to surviv...

World Cinema

• Tunisie,Morocco,Germany
• 2007
• 120min

Making of revolves around three characters: Bahta, a breakdancer with his eyes on Europe; Latfi, an actor playing Bahta; and his director Nouri (director Bouzid playing himself). Bahta’s constrained Tunisian life has given birth t...

World Cinema

• Belgium,France,Canada
• 2007
• 85min

Set sometime in the early 1800s, Horse Thieves is a classic revenge thriller with brothers Jakub and Vladimir, and horse thief brothers Roman and Elias at its heart. When Vladimir is killed and Jakub has his horse stolen, he is re...

Flash Forward

• Germany
• 2007
• 96min

Increasing rage defines the family at the heart of Counterparts. Cop Georg is married to schoolteacher Anne, a compulsively angry woman. Her children fear her outbursts, and her husband tolerates them with reticence. Georg has con...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2007
• 144min

In a remote countryside village of an uncertain time period in Japan ? though unlike Japan ? elders are gathered to oppose an airport that is to be built nearby. Ryosuke transfers to a school in the village when his father, a gove...