World Cinema

• Bulgaria,Germany
• 2006
• 127min

A giant spruce is chopped down for use as a Christmas tree in central Sofia. The route the tree takes from its mountain home to the city is the single element that links six independent stories. Each segment illustrates how people...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2006
• 91min

The Bimo Records is an amazing movie in that it presents flowing pictures so that gets audiences confused with the genre, a documentary or a highly polished film drama. This movie is produced for four years to cover the minor trib...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2006
• 70min

Through its critical perspective on serious poverty and preference ideology in current India, [Kamli] also puts an ethnographic eye on the Tribal Lambada, a nomadic tribe that has fallen down to the lowest social class by losing i...

World Cinema

• Finland
• 2006
• 80min

This is the film that completes a trilogy begun in [Drifting Clouds] and continued with [The Man Without a Past]. Rather than making the a series of connected films with clear cause and effect - unemployment leads to homelessness ...

New Currents

• the Philippines
• 2006
• 105min

A story of a certain rock star that takes a leap back in time through his memory. After a band`s lead vocalist, Teddy, is murdered, another band member, Jett, loses his enthusiasm for music. One day, he is hit on the head by a rob...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2006
• 12min

There is a man running through the street, with his body dripping wet, and the other, a suspicious rider following him around by motorbike. What makes him running? Who is this suspicious man?

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore,Hong Kong China
• 2006
• 95min

Even though [Love Story] is a familiar title, the love story that this film ls is far different from what we usually get. The film tries hard to keep up with the main character`s feelings of desire and lack thereof as he swims aga...

New Currents

• China,France
• 2006
• 88min

A new brilliant film from the director of [the Orphan of Anyang and Night and Day.] An elderly country schoolteacher comes to the big city of Wuhan in search of his only son. His dying Wife has requested to see her boy one last ti...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2006
• 86min

"The aim of [London to Brighton] was to create a piece of work that bled reality, that created a world generally ignored in today`s society, a world full of characters that we pass by every day." ― Paul Andrew Williams [London...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2006
• 80min

Where is Leili? is a cinematic journey into the ethnic music of Iran, providing fascinating insight into regional Iranian music and culture through the works of Mohammad Reza Darvishi, a veteran musician, composer and researcher i...