World Cinema

• Norway
• 2007
• 100min

“Mirush is the story of a boy on the run. It is a story of a boy who longs for a father he cannot remember, but of whom he has created clear images. It is also a story of turning your back on what you desire the most, in order to ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2007
• 47min

Sweet Dream is the oldest existing film in Korean history. But Ae-sun, the main character, is not a naive and conventional woman. Pursuing money and sexual desire, she abandons her family to shack up with her lover in a hotel. Upo...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2007
• 142min

Secret Sunshine starts with the female lead, Shin-ae(JEON Do-Yeon)’s car getting broken down on her way to a small town, Miryang, and Jong-chan(Song Kang-Ho) offering his help. This beginning scene repeats in different forms. Shin...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 27min

Hide-and-seek is Chia’s favorite game. Her dad promises to buy her a goldfish if she wins the game.

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2007
• 138min

With this film, KIM Seung-ho would win his second straight Best Actor Award at the 1961 Asia-Pacific Film Festival, further cementing his status as a premier acting talent. Here, he plays Park, a plasterer who repairs the neighbor...

Flash Forward

• Australia
• 2007
• 82min

One of Australia’s most innovative and daring filmmakers, Kriv Stenders returns with this film about a man’s harrowing, struggle with a choice between domestic reconciliation and permanent destruction. Co-conceived with lead actor...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2007
• 95min

Dariush Mehrjui shows different ways in each of her films and has extraordinary talent in film adaptations of literature. The Pear Tree is also an adaptation of a novel by famous Iranian writer Goli Taraghi. A middle-aged man wh...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2007
• 92min

An unnamed professor leaves the city behind and heads to the countryside when he becomes involved in an investigation surrounding precious manuscripts at his university. It is here that he reconnects with humanity in its purest fo...

World Cinema

• Denmark
• 2007
• 95min

After making his debut with the popular caper comedy Stealing Rembrandt, director Jannik Johansen moved into more emotionally and psychologically complex territory with Murk, a thriller about a man investigating his sister’s death...

Midnight Passion

• Spain,UK
• 2007
• 96min

An American film producer named Marie returns to her homeland, Russia, where her Mother’s dead body has been found under bizarre circumstances. She never knew her, having been adopted and brought to America as a baby. The only clu...