A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2007
• 102min

The Rebirth is a story of despair and renewal by director Masahiro Kobayashi based on a true murder case in Japan. A young girl gets stabbed to death by her classmate. The mother of the offender cannot get over the guilt and the f...

Special Programs in Focus

• Malaysia
• 2007
• 70min

The last film of the trilogy on love by James Lee, following Before We Fall in Love Again and Things We Do When We Fall in Love. James Lee, one of the new generation of independent filmmakers in Malaysia, takes three couples livin...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2007
• 94min

This PPP project of 2001 took 6 years to complete. Sita who sings at a Karaoke bar also works as a prostitute to send money to her daughter in her hometown. Looking for a new place to stay, she comes to rent a room at the house of...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2007
• 104min

Mt. Sahwa is KIM Seung-ho′s final work, which he was also involved in as a producer. In Busan, 1950, KIM Eun-pal (KIM Seung-ho) gathers a crew to search for gold that was hidden by Japanese officials. Seven men form a group and le...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2007
• 107min

Mehrjui who meditates on Iranian culture and society through film questions the meaning of life and means to salvage oneself through a young, drug-addicted musician, Ali. He is a singer and player of Santuri, a traditional instrum...

World Cinema

• Iceland
• 2007
• 94min

Adapted from the novel by Arnaldur Indridason, Jar City is a noir thriller of sorts that spans 30 years and encompasses an entire nation. Police inspector Erlendur is investigating a brutal murder of an elderly man where the only ...

World Cinema

• Portugal
• 2007
• 105min

Shorts by directors from around the world illuminate and contextualize the world as it is today. From Wang Bing comes Brutality Factory, the story of a building site where the ghosts of the past tell their tales. Tarrafal from Ped...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2007
• 105min

KOO Jun-Tek (KIM Seung-ho) is the head of a large, three-generation family. When his daughter begins to work at the same company, he becomes nervous, always wondering if his life at the workplace is being exposed. One day, his bos...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2007
• 136min

In this film, Shinji Aoyama, the director with his own authentic color, and ASANO Tadanobu, a truly prominent actor, meet again. As in Helpless and Eureka, Shinji Aoyama explores his interest in complicated human relations. Kenji ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2007
• 90min

Brillante Mendoza, a central figure in Filipino films, catches, in documentary style, a lower class life of theft and pick-pocketing during Holy Week and the election. Hand-held shots look brilliant as in his previous film Foster ...