Wide Angle

• China
• 2008
• 92min

A tragic disaster usually reveals the soundness of the infrastructure system in the society where it happens, like the Sichuan earthquake in China in May of 2008. Hundreds of children lost their lives in the collapse of the Muyu M...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China,Taiwan
• 2008
• 105min

The youths in this movie deal with the obstacle of reality in pursuit of their big dreams and passions. Even though their disappointments leave them with irreversible scars, they are still young and hopeful. Wind of September, a m...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2008
• 20min

Xiaoli lives in a crowded public housing complex in Shanghai in the late 1980s. His neighbor is the attractive Lanmi, who is married to a sailor who is never around. As Xiaoli gets closer to Lanmi, his hormones awaken, and he get...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2007
• 77min

Abbas Kiarostami′s Ten (2002), portrays 10 conversations that occurred in a single car. Surprisingly, the cramped interior of the automobile reflected the wide and varied affairs of the world on the outside. Four years have passed...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 25min

A TV station documentary team has realized that they have lost their video footage of arctic animals, which is supposed to go on the air soon. Trying to meet the upcoming broadcasting schedule, the team decides to go on a location...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2007
• 113min

Impressive 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...

World Cinema

• Romania
• 2007
• 113min

Set during Bucharest’s ironically named Golden Years, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days is the first in a series of films to explore the history of communism in Romania without referencing communism directly. Otilia and Gabita are two sc...

Gala Presentation

• Singapore,Japan
• 2007
• 105min

A music film by Royston Tan with a whole new idea. Director Tan makes an attempt pioneering in unique music film in Singapore where such a tradition does not exist. He combines Getai, a live stage performance of the traditional po...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2007
• 85min

Hasegawa is writing a sequel to his previous novel, based on a true character who murdered 9 people on the street, with the premise that the killer had a brother. The main character in his new novel, Harumi, drops out of high scho...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 257min

A complete departure from Yang’s previous works, A Bright Summer Day has nothing to do with the modern times, but through a juvenile murder case in the 1960s to reflect on the suppression, disorientation and loss of innocence when...