Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2006
• 82min

So-yeon, who has been studying in Paris for several years, returns to Seoul for summer vacation. She is drawn to Min-hwan, a divorced man whom she met in Paris, but Min-hwan is non-committal and ambiguous about his feelings toward...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia,Hong Kong China
• 2006
• 94min

In the familiar frame of a coming-of-age story with delicate touches, [Rain Dogs] ls about the harshness of a boy`s journey to becoming an adult. Wai-Tung, who lives with his mother, hears about his brother`s death shortly after h...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2006
• 92min

In Australia`s far north almost a millennia ago, Dayindi covets his older brother Minygululu`s third wife. Minygululu decides to tell him an ancient myth to help set him on the right path. The story he tells, told in vivid flashba...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2006
• 99min

Han, the daughter-in-law of Kim’s family, was granted the ‘arch of chastity’ after becoming a widow at an early age. One rainy night after a severe drought, Han has an affair with Sung-chil the farmhand, and becomes pregnant. In o...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2006
• 114min

Jae-moon and Min-jae have been friends since juvenile reformatory, and entered into the gang world together. When they killed a person by mistake, Min-jae was murdered by Dae-shik. For vengeance, Jae-moon goes to Dae-shik`s hometo...

World Cinema

• France,Belgium,Algeria,Moroco
• 2006
• 120min

In 1943, at the peak of WWII, Said ? from the Algerian countryside ? enlists to fight for France, the mother nation that he has never seen. At training camp, he meets other Maghreb `brothers` including Messaoud, Abdelkader and Yas...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 2006
• 95min

A queer cinema with the twist of a coming-of-age film? Or a coming-of-age film with the twist of queer cinema? With college looming ahead, relations between childhood friends Jonathan, Shane, and Carrie, undergo subtle changes. Wh...

Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 2006
• 154min

This is perhaps V.Shantaram`s finest work. At a time directors were still struggling to best utilise the advent of sound in India in 1931, Shantaram made such a sophisticated and daring film that shook society by the roots, but re...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2006
• 125min

This is a brand-new type of musical - a musical that one can encounter only from Indonesia. [Opera Java] represents the accomplishment of Garin Nugroho`s ambitious dream to represent the glorious tradition of Gamelan in a film. Th...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2006
• 119min

In the Cho Sun dynasty, a local clown, Jang-seng, runs away to Seoul with Gong-gil, his lover-like friend who used to be the nobles` plaything. Jang-seng and Gong-gil, while performing a satirical play of a king with his new clown...