Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2007
• 131min

The film for which Kim was awarded Best Actor at the 1960 Asia-Pacific Film Festival. Mr. Kim (KIM Seung-ho) is the happy father of two sons and three daughters. Always optimistic and romantic, he is called "Romance Papa" by his w...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2007
• 136min

In this film, Shinji Aoyama, the director with his own authentic color, and ASANO Tadanobu, a truly prominent actor, meet again. As in Helpless and Eureka, Shinji Aoyama explores his interest in complicated human relations. Kenji ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2007
• 107min

Mehrjui who meditates on Iranian culture and society through film questions the meaning of life and means to salvage oneself through a young, drug-addicted musician, Ali. He is a singer and player of Santuri, a traditional instrum...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2007
• 142min

Secret Sunshine starts with the female lead, Shin-ae(JEON Do-Yeon)’s car getting broken down on her way to a small town, Miryang, and Jong-chan(Song Kang-Ho) offering his help. This beginning scene repeats in different forms. Shin...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2007
• 85min

September is a coming-of-age drama set against the turmoil and tension that resulted in a shift in Australia’s race relations of the late-1960s following the devastating changes to the Federal Pastoral Industry Award. Ed is white ...

World Cinema

• Slovenia
• 2007
• 105min

“Kratki stiki”, Short Circuits’s native title, in Slovenian has several meanings: one is the usual electrical failure. A second is “brief contact,” and more metaphorically “misunderstanding.” A bus driver on the night route finds ...

World Cinema

• Mexico,France
• 2007
• 142min

The little known pacifist, anti-technological Mennonite community in northern Mexico is the setting for Carlos Reygadas’ latest film. After fleeing Europe in the 17th century, anti-German sentiment in Canada during the First World...

World Cinema

• Austria,Luxembourg
• 2007
• 96min

With a subtle nod to 1984 and Brave New World, Christian Frosch’s psychological thriller continues the European tradition of genre films that internalize their horrors and fears. Hannah is a woman newly detached from a violent hus...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2007
• 117min

Hee-kyoung is a mother working at home who is sentenced with incurable illness. She abandons the work that awaits her at home and goes after a young man who runs a Karaoke. Her son who believes that he was a king in his previous l...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2007
• 96min

Andrew is a millionaire detective novelist, and Milo is the unemployed actor who ran off with his wife. He has come to enquire whether Andrew will agree to divorce. On the contrary, Andrew has been waiting for this moment to put h...