Wide Angle

• Latvia
• 2007
• 12min

Five-year-old troublemaker Marija doesn’t like Santa’s gift, she has a ladybird in her ear, and prefers the company of firemen ? probably because they’re around to put out the fires she causes.

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 34min

Lee Kyung-rock, a North Korean boy who has a longing for rock music, leaves his home to escape from North Korea. He crosses a river to China, successfully sneaks into the embassy of the Republic of Korea, and finally arrives in Se...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India,United States
• 2007
• 98min

Focused on a friendship between the ruling class and the natives of a colony, Before the Rains is set in Kerala, India in the 1930s and tells how a tragic relationship turns out unexpectedly. Neelan helps his generous boss, Henry ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Malaysia
• 2007
• 72min

In Malaysian history, the communist party played a big role in fighting and claiming independence against Japanese occupation and the English colonists. The Malaysian government tries to take advantage of the fact that the majorit...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 80min

There was a small record shop in a little town where the director spent his childhood. One day, he finds the record shop closed and traces back in his memory what that place meant to people. A community culture that had formed aro...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2007
• 114min

With the completion of the Three Gorges Dam, now under construction, 1.13 million people along the Yangtze River will have been dislocated. The majority of them are farmers. Bingai features one woman farmer who refuses to move awa...

New Currents

• China
• 2007
• 101min

This is the feature debut of Shangjun Cai as a director, after writing scripts like Shower and Sunflower, which were directed by ZHANG Yang. The film describes the conflict and reconciliation between a father and son. The father, ...

Gala Presentation

• France
• 2007
• 103min

The first of the series of films being produced by Musee d’Orsay in Paris with world famous directors, Flight of the Red Balloon displays the daily lives of voice actress Suzanne, her young son Simon, and his nanny, Song Fang, a f...

Special Programs in Focus

• Malaysia
• 2007
• 112min

Cinta is an omnibus film that consists of love stories of 5 couples who either occupy the same space or affect the lives of one another directly although they don’t know each other. Through each story, the director approaches the ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2007
• 112min

The elder sister who went to Tokyo to become an actress has come back home for her parents’ funeral. Her brother and younger sister seem uncomfortable. Her brother’s wife is immature and clumsy. What is happening to the family? Th...