World Cinema
Summer WeddingHamid is a happy, unwed, celibate journalist. Wishing desperately to avoid becoming like everyone else, he staunchly refuses to get married. His family thinks otherwise and speeds up plans to get him married. With his wedding to R...
Korean Cinema
Rikidozan: A Hero ExtraordinaryThis is the life story of a legendary wrestler, Rikidozan. Kim Shin-rak immigrated to Japan at the age of 17 to become a sumo wrestler. But after finding out that only native-born Japanese could become Yokozuna, he determines to b...
Korean Cinema
Love is Crazy ThingAu-jin, a housewife living in Busan with two children, manages to get by. Her husband doesn′t help her much for living and children′s education. Although she has several part time jobs, it doesn′t get better. Phone calls with a ma...
Special Programs in Focus
A Draughtsman’s ContractIn the late 17th century affluent Mrs. Herbert hires the young artist Mr. Neville to draw twelve detailed illustrations of her husband′s country estate. In return, she promises him perfect hospitality-and sex. Mr. Neville is a per...
World Cinema
The HeroVitorio is a 20-year veteran of Angola′s 30-year long civil conflict. He′s lost a leg, and now in Luanda he′s lost the prosthesis he worked so hard to get to street kids. As he searches the city′s slums for it, he cobbles together...
World Cinema
OdeteDirector Rodrigues asks, "Can we survive the loss of our loved ones by nourishing on dreams?" Pedro and Rui is a young couple very much in love, and that love is eternal. Odete and Alberto head toward collapse when she wants a bab...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Princess RaccoonStill active as an experimental filmmaker even at the age of 82, Seijun Suzuki made this film following Pistol Opera. Catching the world′s eyes original genre films in the ′60s, and Zigeunerweisen in the ′80s, his latest film is a...
Wide Angle
Off BeatIn 2002, Iran enforced numerous restrictions on performing rock concerts. This creative oppression inspired a ten-member group of music fans to hold a contest on the Internet for Tehran′s underground rock bands.