A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2007
• 108min

Xiaolin and Xiaoli each walk through a long dark tunnel. The film exposes the dark shadow of modern China through the stories of two unrelated characters. Xiaolin, who earns money through physical labor, suffers from excessive sex...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2007
• 123min

KIM Hak-kyu (KIM Seung-ho), who owns an Eastern medicine shop, was born and raised in the neighborhood. His single-minded stubbornness causes conflict within his family. Kim is also jealous of CHOI Do-yeol, a gynecologist who has ...

World Cinema

• Macedonia
• 2007
• 102min

“The changing world of today’s Macedonia is bringing new dilemmas to what it once was, a very traditional society. As an answer to the great confusion of the past decade brought by conflict, war and transition, many negative aspec...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2007
• 70min

A philosophical essay written in visuals. The pioneer in Chinese queer cinema, Cui Zi’en, talks about carnal instinct from a philosophical point of view in allegory form. Physical liberation is the way to true freedom. Xiao Shao t...

World Cinema

• Serbia
• 2007
• 87min

In the late 1970s, Goran Paskaljevic carried on the trends defined by the so-called Czech School active in Yugoslavia at the time. With auteur cinema becoming firmly entrenched, Paskaljevic was among the first to champion control ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2007
• 100min

The Cow is a classic Iranian film not widely known to the world and it is an outstanding work without any flaws. The story begins with a unique setting not found in other films and gradually leads the audience to an irresistible c...

Wide Angle

• Switzerland,Finland,Germany
• 2007
• 79min

It has often been said that music is the only truly universal language, and director Mika Kaurismaki continues the exploration of global sounds he started in Moro No Brasil and Brasileirinho with this documentary about rhythm and ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 100min

There are two children who study Pansori (Korean traditional song) in the film. They both started Pansori to realize the dreams their fathers could not fulfill. However, their reasons for continuing to learn Pansori are different....

Wide Angle

• Mexico
• 2007
• 14min

Teenaged Sofia and Jonas must decide on their futures and whether to abandon their small Mexican hometown in this Palme d’Or-winner for short film in 2007.

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2007
• 78min

Yearning for relationship and communication is an issue characters struggle with in this film yet there isn’t a single word of dialogue being spoken. It is hard to imagine thinking so innocently that conversation would resolve the...