Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2006
• 94min

A young boy who lost his home during the war, Amiro now lives in an abandoned ship. He spends his days working odd jobs, until he realizes that the only way that he can realize his dreams is by enrolling in school. Hungry for know...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 43min

Ever since the process of the expansion project of the U.S Forces Korea in Pyeongtaek began, local farmers in Pangsung Village have held a candlelight vigil everyday. The atmosphere of the village has been panic-striken since the ...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2006
• 11min

SUNG is a homeless veteran losing his mind on the banks of the L.A. River. Pursued by unseen forces, fighting unseen foes, Sung is ostensibly "just another lunatic." But as his invisible war continues, under bridges and in tunnels...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 8min

A mother and daughter are on their way home from shopping. After the mother makes a quick stop at the bathroom she returns to find the daughter locked inside the car drinking ant insecticide. A young man wielding an iron wire help...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 26min

The boy is 15 years old. Except the birthmark around one of the eyes, he looks no different than any ordinary student at junior high. We see him pilfering at classrooms and shoplifting at convenience stores. He keeps an eye on a g...

Critics` Choice

• Russia
• 2006
• 74min

In today`s world, we react casually to death… Thanks to the media, people have gotten used to seeing corpses, and death has become cheap. I think this cheapening of death ought to create a sense of revulsion in people… So in my wo...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2006
• 75min

An omnibus work of animation, produced to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the animated film, J.S. Blackton`s [Humorous Phases of Funny Faces] (1906). From the collection of 16 works that is very Tokyo-like in...

Wide Angle

• China,Korea
• 2006
• 123min

The story provides an insight in to the life of four miners. From a remote village in the northeast of China, Old Cao, Little Cao, Yu and Zhang make a living by mining granite. Life is dull and hard, work from dawn to dusk. Their ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 80min

This is a documentary about a leprosy patient, who spent her life on Sorokdo, after being cast out from society and, effectively, history. The difficult life of this active and witty 77-year-old lady is viewed through the lens of ...

Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 2006
• 140min

V. Shantaram was at the peak of his form when he made Two Eyes, Twelve Hands. It was a series of superb films he made in his own independent studio Rajkamal Kalamandir, on the problems of independent India?dowry, national integrat...