Wide Angle

• USA
• 2006
• 85min

Queer cinema and images have been around since the dawn of filmmaking, and here, award-winning documentary producer-directors Klainberg and Ades chart the outing of queer film from its days as pure subtext in classic Hollywood ([B...

Closing Film

• Hong Kong,China
• 2006
• 105min

[Crazy Stone] is a black comedy where a group of people that try to steal the precious stone of jade confront the factory guard who tries to stop them. Successful with the public audiences and the critics in both Hong Kong and Mai...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2006
• 118min

Documentarian Bernard is in Rwanda, growing increasingly weary of the conflict and disease that afflict the nation. Gentille is a young waitress he meets and falls in love with. Regardless of their differences, they get married ju...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2006
• 137min

First-time filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck looks to recent German history for this gripping tale of what happens when an observer teeters over the line into participation. The time is just before the fall of the Berlin ...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2006
• 108min

Marta, Sebastian and Jozef are virtual strangers to one another, simultaneously heroic and utterly regular. The one thing they have in common is a desperate need for money with which to fulfill their dreams. Each goes to extremes ...

Midnight Passion

• Hungary
• 2006
• 91min

Three stories. Three ages. Three men. Grandfather, father, son. One is an orderly, one is a leading sportsman, and one is a master taxidermist. One desires love, the other success, and the third immorality. This bizarre comedy is ...

Wide Angle

• Vietnam
• 2006
• 12min

On a terrace in the old quarter of Hanoi, an aged father notices a parrot flying by and asks his son what it was. He asks the same question six times, which increasingly irritates his son. The son does not remember that 51 years...

World Cinema

• France
• 2006
• 103min

Zingarina comes to Transylvania with her friend Marie to find her lover, who is also the father of her unborn child. Wandering the streets of wine, music and dance during a village festival, she finally meets him, but he rejects h...

Critics` Choice

• Paraguay,France,Argentina,Spain,Netherland,Germany
• 2006
• 78min

It is the middle of Paraguay’s Chaco War. The film begins with an extended shot of a couple hanging a hammock. Ramon and Candida wait patiently for rain, for cooler weather, and for word from their son, fighting in the war. Shot i...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2006
• 90min

One of the most ideal topics for animation is the `world of dreams`. Kon Satoshi`s [Paprika], based on the film by Tsutsui Yasutaka, unfurls a novel world of sci-fi animation, which takes the world of dreams as its subject matter....