A Window on Asian Cinema
SUMMER′s TailA coming-of-age story by Wen-Tang Cheng, who has been telling stories of the native and the isolated. The youth rebel and are passionate out of control, yet they still hold onto innocence. Four high school teens ? music-loving Yve...
Open Cinema
The FriendsThis second feature by LEE Young-jae is adapted from a Japanese novel. As in his previous film The Harmonium in My Memory, he visualizes the innocent emotion of a human in delicate sentiment. Ye-jun, Dong-hee, and Young-tan are cu...
World Cinema
ActressesActresses is about a “middle-aged woman who feels, all of a sudden, that she’s woken up. As if she’d been asleep all her life, living in a dream, removed from reality. She’s an actress. Acting is her job. She’s lived on stage, lov...
Wide Angle
Nobody′s GirlfriendThe short film is made during TAN Chui-Mui′s Cinefondation Residency in Paris, casting another two residents, Nadav Lapid and Rusudan Chkonia. The story is inspired by Nadav Lapid′s Emile′s Girlfriend. TAN Chui-Mui calls the film ...
Wide Angle
At Journey′s HeadA 2006 Pusan Bank Fund project by Asian Network of Documentary. The documentary is about Bing, who was born in 1982. The film investigates the cause of his broken home and his parents’ divorce. He becomes more disappointed at the ...
World Cinema
Crossed TracksFollowing the failure of his last film, Claude Lelouch directed and presented his latest to Cannes under a pseudonym. His desire for anonymity is reflected in Crossed Tracks, where characters are on the run, betrayals come fast an...
World Cinema
InspiringSet in the city of Tiflis (now Tbilisi) in the early 1900s, this period melodrama about a mysterious couple trying to navigate their way through life and their relationship. Vladislav Eschenbach and Sofia Pshebyshevskaya play the ...
Wide Angle
The PostcardAt a post office in a quiet rural area, two female employees take pleasure in seeing a young man who visits every day. One day, he comes to send a postcard written of his love. The wo girls at the post office, both believe it is m...
World Cinema
No Quality for HeroesSwiss-born Italian resident Bruno Ledeux is a fortysomething man without a life or identity to cling to. He has been told he has a week to settle his outstanding bank debts, he fears for his job, and he just learned that he can ne...
A Window on Asian Cinema
3 Days to ForeverImpressive with its honest conversations on love, marriage, relationship and society and of psychological description, this film is directed by Riri Riza. Yusuf and Ambar are cousins, but can’t help being attracted to each other...