Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 26min

The itinerary of father`s Christmas Eve, which is looked different but the same. Hyun-tae, who is an wild goose daddy, is going to the sea to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. At the same day, Kaka who`s working at the auto shop is...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2006
• 41min

Documentarian Dai Sil Kim-Gibson is renowned for films that give voice to the voiceless and allow freedom for the oppressed. [Motherland] chronicles the lives of two Korean women in the post-Cold War years; one is a Cuban woman, a...

World Cinema

• Austria
• 2006
• 88min

After a 14-year separation, five friends reunite at the funeral of a favorite teacher from their hometown. Alex, Carmen, Nina, Nicole, and Brigitte - each in her early 30s - reopen old wounds and revive dormant friendships over th...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran,France
• 2006
• 85min

The idea of this film, originally under a different title, came to me during my studies. At the time I often travelled from Tehran to my home town, Boroujerd, in the south-west of Iran. I often thought of the petrol station that ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 27min

Han Jae-ho, who majored dramatics, thinks himself as a born actor, but actual life is totally different from his thinking. He fails at the audition over and over, and his parents start nagging him. In addition, his girlfriend seem...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2006
• 15min

An old woman and her feline companion rummage through their collection of matchboxes. Together, they escape into a world of color, and travel to distant lands and distant times, racing with the wind and skipping on the bright hori...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2006
• 120min

One day, Tomoya found that Aoi, his friend in his college days, was killed in a plane crash in the United States. Tomoya has talked to her first to approach his love interest who was Aoi’s friend. Aoi, who belonged to the film clu...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2006
• 94min

This film is actor Momoi Kaori`s feature directorial debut. It draws a portrait of the internal life of humans, which is sometimes beyond our understanding. Yume`s family appears normal and peaceful, however they are in their own...

Wide Angle

• Latvia
• 2006
• 12min

The still water of a deserted pool draws Maria to it. She decides to go for a swim in the pool despite warnings that the water is beyond cold. When she gets there, Maria discovers that not only is the water frigid, it has the powe...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2006
• 74min

In a drought-stricken southern region of the country, a small boy sets out in search of his missing parents. To escape famine the inhabitants are emigrating from the area, and when the boy despairs of finding his family, he joins ...