Wide Angle

• Argentina,Bolivia
• 2007
• 94min

Alejandro Landes examines the geopolitics surrounding Evo Morales’ presidential campaign as well as the state of the farmer in this political and humanistic documentary. Morales was a socialist farmer whose 2005 run for the presid...

Wide Angle

• the Netherlands
• 2007
• 10min

A haunting film about the power and repercussions of words. Rik, an angry, wounded, young boy, makes innocuous, biting remark one day that has unexpected, far-reaching effects. A series of connections illustrates that pain can nev...

Midnight Passion

• Singapore,Thailand
• 2007
• 88min

Inspired by true stories and real-life characters, Pleasure Factory tells an intimate and seductive tale involving pleasure seekers and pleasure providers in Geylang, Singapore′s red light district. In the course of one night, an ...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2007
• 100min

“Each story in Cross Life explores basic struggles ? the cycles of birth and death, the rites of passage from childhood to adulthood, the tensions between traditional beliefs and the distractions of the modern world… Fundamentally...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2007
• 128min

Director Takashi Miike’s recreated Hiroshi Takahashi’s original comic book that sold more than 32 million copies in Japan. This film is about violence in private institutes. The film presents the story that precedes the comic book...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2007
• 138min

The film is equipped with the best combination possible for a Japanese commercial film directed by Yukisada Isao starring SAWAJIRI Erika, ISEYA Yusuke and TAKEUCHI Yuko. A college student Kae, who dreams of becoming a teacher, di...

World Cinema

• UK,Ireland
• 2007
• 88min

“This is a film about identity, humanity and living in a foreign place. It concerns men and their need to belong. Some of us turn a blind eye to the truth so that we belong to a group, either a group of friends or at a larger leve...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 110min

Taipei Story is a pairing of the masters with Yang at the helm and HOU Hsiao-Hsien as his leading man, playing a former youth national baseball team member, but relegated to guarding an aged fabric store with old values. As her gi...

World Cinema

• Argentina,France,Germany
• 2007
• 83min

“Nobody recognizes us, because nobody knows us, and nothing and no one, is known by us. Therefore, why carry the burden of our own identity when we could freely choose it? Better this way. Free ourselves of all that makes us a spe...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,Hong Kong
• 2007
• 116min

Life is full of riddles we cannot solve. Movies, at times, give us a better understanding of life by showing causal relations in life that are unknown to the characters - from an omniscient point of view. The Sun Also Rises unfold...