Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2007
• 106min

Chul-su is an intellectual who anguishes between the separation of reality and the ideals of ideology. The film portrays the life and conflict of partisans who remain in their hide-out in Piagol of Mt. Jiri continuing meaningless ...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2007
• 101min

A piano in the middle of a quiet forest shines in the moonlight. As a boy touches the keys, a beautiful melody echoes through the woods like magic. A genius, Kai, is blessed with a God-given talent. Syuwue, however, can be an elit...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2007
• 100min

Drawing on the film noir genre, the movie is a detective story that combines modern 3-D animation, pop-art and comic strip elements into the story of a man who is searching for his true identity. The story begins in Los Angeles, w...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 90min

YEON Young-suk is a cultural laborer, singer, and activist. His music consoles the wearied people living in the tense neo-liberalistic society, but to him it is a tiresome reality. He chooses music as the biggest motivating power ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 173min

Centered around a Taipei middle-class family: the Father (Wu Nien-Jen), a partner in a computer company facing career dilemma is reunited with his first love; the Mother tries to seek deliverance from her empty life through religi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2007
• 120min

Dariush Mehrjui observes the life of a middle class middle-aged intellectual in Iranian society through Hamoun. He has made compromises in his dreams as a young man such as love, career and family, to deal with reality and at the ...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2007
• 95min

“I wanted this film to be an enchanted story about the joys and pains of the journey into adulthood. Hallam is a damaged, confused and highly individualistic character, so his journey is far from conventional, but I hope his exper...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 90min

Through the death of his maternal grandfather on November, 2001, the director learns more about the complicated stories of his maternal grandmother’s family. In the small village where his grandmother’s family lived, there were fe...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2007
• 14min

As grandma lies on her deathbed, her family gathers to get ready to say goodbye.

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 166min

Yang’s debut feature is also Christopher Doyle’s debut as feature film cinematographer. Jia-Li’s (Sylvia Chang) husband has disappeared, a hint at a beach suggests that he was drowned at the sea but no body was found. The film foc...