Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2006
• 116min

A poor and fat boy, Dong-goo OH believes himself to be female and dreams of becoming a perfect woman like Madonna. He saves up money for a sex change operation by doing hard jobs, only to use that to pay for damages by his father`...

Wide Angle

• Sweden
• 2006
• 15min

Do you remember the first time you had sex? Do you recall it with humor, horror, shame or regret? Innovative Swedish animator Jonas Odell uses the recollections of four people he interviewed on the subject and four distinct animat...

World Cinema

• Iceland
• 2006
• 92min

In modern day Reykjavik, a single mother of four is desperately trying to make ends meet. Fighting a losing battle with her ex-husband for custody over her three daughters, Karitas is oblivious to what is happening with her twelve...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2006
• 73min

This is a story about a woman living with her childish husband, or a story about a thoughtless husband becoming a new man. Either way it`s an interesting comedy by Ichii Masahide that recalls the work of Yamashita Nobuhiro. The h...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2006
• 106min

[Kabul Express] pictures forty eight hours of two journalists, who cover Afghanistan and meet various people after 9.11. The movie deals with harsh reality, yet is a comedy. Kabir Khan, a long-time documentary director, presents t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2006
• 97min

This is Thailand`s first 3D feature animation. Even though this animation appears to have been heavily influenced by both Hollywood and Japanese animation, it met with a roar of approval from its own citizens for its story based o...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 63min

2005 Uni Korea Fund/AND Fund When I was little, I was the curly-haired star in the "Anti-Communist Eloquence Competition". There was a painter who participated in the reproduction of the pre-historic drawings from the Lascaux c...

Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 2006
• 120min

Made just one year before India`s independence, the film is about a patriotic Indian doctor who goes to China to support the war effort when it has been attacked by the Japanese. Dr Kotnis was inspired by a real-life story of Dr D...

World Cinema

• Canada,Belgium,France
• 2006
• 105min

Belgian engineer and failed inventor Michel live with his wife Alice, son Jules, and wheelchair-bound father Herve. The day comes when Herve tells Michel that he was in fact born in a barn and adopted from Quebec. Michel promptly ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2006
• 98min

Jueteng is a numbers game that has been popular in the Philippines since the Spanish colonial period. It is officially illegal, but jueteng operators may be found all over the country. Millions of people depend on jueteng for thei...