World Cinema

• Italy,France
• 2006
• 120min

The image of the boat drifting into New York harbor past Ellis Island is a mythic one, used in countless films about the immigrant experience. Emanuele Crialese grounds his tale of immigration in the mythic and the wondrous, much ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2006
• 114min

Leaving the country orphanage where he grew up, Su-min comes to Seoul to study art design. Leading a tough life by doing jobs including factory worker and proxy driver, he becomes to have a feeling for Jae-min, a depressed you guy...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2006
• 110min

It is 1965 and in Japan, the country has started to shift from coal to oil. One by one the old mining towns begin their long slow decline, but for one small town way up north, its leaders and the local mining company aim to build ...

Open Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2006
• 92min

A new film by Johnnie To. Wo Sing is Hong Kong`s oldest Triad Society. Under the leadership of its current Chairman Lok, it has grown to become the most feared crime organization in the city. Jimmy, an educated gangster, wants to...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2006
• 99min

The letters of the title stand for the New York avenues that make up the city`s famous Alphabet City neighborhood ? home for drug addicts and angry young discontents. On these dilapidated streets, the lives of three young women co...

World Cinema

• Denmark
• 2006
• 100min

The owner of an IT company decides to sell it. During the negotiations, the prospective buyers ask to meet the president. Little do they realize that there is no president: the owner created the man so that he wouldn`t have to dea...

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Lee Man-hee, the Poet of Night

• Korea
• 2005
• 92min

A group of Korean soldiers are equipped with some rifles left by Japanese and US Army, standing guard at the frontline post. A corporal who watches his hometown in distance, a new enlisted soldier who doesn′t believe in war, and a...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong
• 2005
• 89min

A Side B Side Seaside is a story about two girls who bid farewell to their own youth. Up against the same setting, the two girls′ story of how differently they spent their adolescence overlaps one another. One story is lead by a g...

Special Programs in Focus

• Canada
• 2005
• 123min

Spanning continents, Thom Fitzgerald directs a strong international cast in this epic film about people fighting an epidemic. In Canada, cut-rate porn actor Denys repeatedly fakes his blood tests by using the blood of his ailing f...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2005
• 126min

The contradictory and seemingly hypocritical nature of human existence is explored in llia Khrzhanovsky′s controversial debut film. Two parallel tales unfold in two distinct spheres. Or perhaps not distinct at all. In a bar in Mos...