A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2007
• 102min

A 2005 PPP project, this film captures the lives of Christian farmers in China. Common housewife and Christian, Xiao-Li must provide for her husband, ill with pneumoconiosis, and her daughter. The only thing she has to lean on is ...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan,United States
• 2007
• 12min

If Jian does not confess his feelings to the woman he has a crush on tonight, he may never see her again.

World Cinema

• Republic of South Africa
• 2007
• 80min

Director Darrell Roodt continues his examinations of South Africa with the story of Meisie, a young girl and gifted mathematician who yearns to learn and only needs an opportunity to do so. Blindly obeying her father and staying a...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 20min

A widow finds a receipt from a pawn shop among her husband’s belongings. The pawn shop owner tells the widow that a pawned good is only retrievable when exchanged for another item. She pawns her watch and gets back her husband’s l...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 19min

Two sisters have an awkward air between them, and their mother avoids eye contact with her younger daughter. The older sister suggests going to a public bath and they choose to go to one that is far away from home. Despite the ini...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 60min

In his previous film The Gate of Truth, Director KIM Hee Chul dealt with the unsolved murder case of Lieutenant KIM Hoon. His new film Not Guilty also starts with a mystery case. The Gate of Truth was very much affected by the dir...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2007
• 115min

“It’s the end of my trilogy. After The Decline of the American Empire, The Barbarian Invasions what next? The dark ages. I get the feeling we’re headed for a kind of new Middle Ages. That’s a theme I wanted to develop because what...

World Cinema

• Brazil,France
• 2007
• 90min

Told from the perspective of a 10-year-old boy, Mutum tells the story of a disintegrating family in remote Brazil. Thiago, played by non-professional actor Thiago Da Silva Mariz, lives in isolation within isolation, with only his ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Malaysia
• 2007
• 94min

Yasmin Ahmad, one of the renowned women directors of Malaysia, describes in detail a girl’s sentiments being awakened to the emotion of a first love. Orked is a 14 year-old tomboy who flies kites and climbs trees with a 12 year-ol...

Flash Forward

• Rwanda,United States,Hong Kong
• 2007
• 97min

The 1994 genocide in Rwanda has been explored in several films over the past several years, most notably in the high profile Hotel Rwanda and Shooting Dogs. But Lee Isaac Chung’s Munyurangabo is the most elegant and moving so far ...