A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2006
• 98min

At first glance, [Story of Pao] is histrionic; it is a melodrama ling of a woman`s suffering from pre-modern patriarchal society. Based on a true story, however, Ngo Quang Hai shows a woman who searches for her own life. It is a s...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2006
• 114min

When we think of Chinese films that have addressed the topic of the Cultural Revolution, for the most part, we think of the Lost Generation One thing that [The Road] departs from is this stereotype. On one level, this film represe...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2006
• 118min

Hyun-jeong, a 29-year-old woman with a united family and a good career, is dumped by her warmhearted boyfriend, Min-suk. He leaves her saying “I feel as if I`m disappearing.” Sang-hoon who looks unsophisticated and innocent approa...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong China
• 2006
• 86min

[The Heavenly Kings] is a mockumentary where reality and fiction mix. This is also Hong Kong matinee idol Daniel WU`s feature directorial debut. WU starts a boy band ′Alive′ with close friends Conroy Chan, Andrew Lin, and Terenc...

New Currents

• Malaysia
• 2006
• 90min

A special gaze on an ordinary love story - that is director Tan Chui Mui`s gaze on the subtle emotions of love. Aping has moved to Kuala Lumpur from Penang and works at her aunt`s restaurant. She frequently calls her boyfriend in ...

Open Cinema

• France,Germany
• 2006
• 120min

Make a five-minute love story in any of 20 neighborhoods in Paris with the lowest budget possible: this is the cardinal rule for the 21 different filmmakers of Paris, je t`aime. Set in various spots in Paris, different scenes of l...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2006
• 117min

1998 South Korea in anarchy of IMF. Ironically, drug traffic in Busan is flourishing. A drug broker, Sangdo, and an officer in charge of crimes of violence, police corporal Do, have different intentions but the same goal: removing...

Wide Angle

• China,Korea
• 2006
• 5min

A happening that already happened is a fact. And any happening that didn`t happen yet will eventually become a fact. The spaces inside and outside the screen are also facts. The numerously repeated meetings and partings between me...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2006
• 86min

Comprised of only a handful of scenes and even fewer lines of dialogue, this experiment in ambient sound design is minimalist even by Naderi`s extreme standards. It`s also marks a return to the child protagonist films the director...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2006
• 112min

The Sakais lead typical mundane lives in Japan. There are no world-shaking events but they still have their problems. Masakazu, the father, is busy working hard and his remarried wife, Terumi, complains that he doesn`t take care o...