Wide Angle

• the Netherlands
• 2006
• 80min

How do we define ourselves, and how do we define our identities? Those are two of the questions at the heart of this documentary, an autobiographical film about a young man`s quest for self. Director In-Soo Radstake was born in Ko...

Wide Angle

• China,United States
• 2006
• 39min

The Blood of Yingzhou District is a documentary about orphans in rural areas who were abandoned when their parents sold their blood due to poverty, contracted AIDS, and died. It would be easy to dismiss this film as a facile piece...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 96min

Roads criss cross our landscape, making it convenient for human beings to travel. However, countless creatures also die as a result of these roads. This piece documents South Korea`s first in-depth study of “road kill.” It shows h...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 18min

Any human being must have flaws and secrets that needs to be hidden from others and even from themselves. People sometimes hide them in places secretive, somewhere even they hadn`t been recognizing. These are the stories about ca...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2006
• 52min

Anchor Light is a melodrama about one woman’s hardships after she leaves her seaside village to move to Seoul. In-sun, the daughter of a poor fisherman, wants to make money and study in Seoul, and so she follows Chul-su who paid b...

Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2006
• 108min

Two young men live together in a small apartment near a railway yard. They might be brothers, they might be lovers. The elder one (Yu Bo) has mental problems: he has the mind of a child, and needs a lot of care and attention. The...

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2006
• 82min

On her birthday, Jeanne, an actress, hears a secret from her mother about how she met her father on a trip to India, and that he is a Hindu Untouchable. Jeanne takes a role that she once rejected in order to take a journey to Indi...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 24min

Kang-sik`s speech-impaired single mother has raised him despite the fact that his father ran away from the home and the family. A martial artist, Kang-sik quits fighting because of an unfair judgment, and when his girl friend, Se-...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong China
• 2006
• 100min

"See Lai- in other words, sloppy housewives suffering from loss of youthfulness, beauty, and passion. When do these typical Hong Kong housewives, living in public housing estates, stop being beautiful? When do they stop wearing ma...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,France
• 2006
• 135min

[Summer Palace] is the new film by Lou Ye, one of the most talented and ambitious of the emerging crop of Chinese directors. This film, shown in competition at Cannes, portrays the lives of men and women who suffered the political...