Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2006
• 92min

Although she was neither a politician nor an artist, an old woman called Mary was a famous figure to people of Yokohama. Who was she and where is she now? Director Nakamura Takayuki traces her life with the help of her acquaintanc...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 12min

As if it`s a really funny story, So-jung tells her boyfriend Jung-in about how Hee-yeon had confessed her love for her. Jung-in quickly responds back as if it`s nothing new. However, they soon realize that it`s not a mere joke as ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 135min

This documentary is about the 3rd and 4th generation Korean residents of Japan who are students of Chosen elementary, middle, and high school in Hokkaido. It follows the students through one year of the eventual 11 years` national...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 105min

Thirty years ago, the women workers at Dong-Il Corporation realized the need to unite the workers struggle with the pro-democracy movement, and fought against corporations and the state. Losing their jobs as a result, the women, n...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2006
• 93min

Shy yet sincere Ki-soo, who barely makes his living as driver, dreams to be a band drummer. He takes care of his brother`s son, let alone Jong-dae who became sexually disabled from the accident that may be caused by Ki-soo. Ki-soo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India,UK,France
• 2006
• 92min

[Life Is All About Friends], a project invited by PPP of 1999`s PIFF, is the first film of director Murali Nair`s new trilogy. Through the eyes of a child named Unni, the film captures the reality of Kerala, India, a small rural t...

World Cinema

• Argentina,Spain
• 2006
• 102min

[Destiny] explores the role of religion in our lives as it draws an allegory for the foreign exploitation of Latin America. In an Argentine/Bolivian border town, a community earns a meager living by making ceramics. Using the bone...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2006
• 99min

[Wool 100%] is perhaps the most eccentric film debut this year that deals with encounters and affection in a fairytale world. The film lives up to the reputation created by the director`s short animations, crossing formats from an...

World Cinema

• the Netherlands
• 2006
• 97min

Fifty-year-old veteran waiter Edgar wants a change. His wife is chronically sick, he has a terrible job at a terrible restaurant, his neighbors are rude, and his extramarital affair doesn`t offer him much excitement either. On top...

Midnight Passion

• UK
• 2006
• 93min

The Moorgate Young Offenders Institution is the place where you don`t want to be. The inmates are nothing but trouble makers, and they are beyond control. One of the inmates who is bullied apparently commits a suicide, and the res...