Special Programs in Focus
Yesterday GirlAnita is a young, Jewish, East German refugee. Without a job or a home, she gets caught stealing and lands in prison. Upon her release, she finds she remains an awkward newcomer. Though her probation officer tries to help, she can...
Wide Angle
Life Goes onMy mother′s life seen through me, a documentary maker and the questions that I ask my daughter after I become a mother myself.. This is a frank film that shows the relationships between my mother, sister, my daughter and me as my ...
World Cinema
Up and DownTwo refugee smugglers dump their cargo near the Czech border. Left behind in their truck, however, is an infant that promptly goes up for sale. At an amusement park, Milu?ka is accused of trying to steal a baby carriage - complete...
Special Programs in Focus
The EdukatorsFriends Jan and Peter are "The Edukators," young, rebellious and non-violent agitators who break into the homes of wealthy people and leave messages warning that their time in such positions is coming to an end. Jule is Peter′s gi...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The Bamboo House of DollsNear the point of death, a resistance soldier tells his wife where some gold is hidden. The wife is sent to a camp for female POWS, where blatant acts of cruelty and sexual abuse are rampant. An escape attempt is made by resistanc...
New Current
This Charming GirlJung-hye who works in the post office is a detached strange woman. But such strangeness is too subtle for others to take notice. A very shy novelist starts visiting the post office on a regular basis and Jung-hye′s blank face seem...
Korean Panorama
Woman is the Future of ManTwo men who went to the same school meet after a long time. They indulge in their memories of a woman and visit her. The woman was once the girlfriend of the older man and then dates the younger man after a break up with the first...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Tropical MaladyTropical Malady is one of the most creative experimental films released this year. The film is mainly composed of two parts. The first half is about Keng, a serviceman, who is having fun with his friend, Tong, during his vacation....
A Window on Asian Cinema
Formula 17At a giance, a love story of a gav COuple by a female director seems to be unfamiliar. Formula 17 is filled with the delicate sensibilities of adolescent girls. 7 year-old Tien Tsai arrives in Taipei with an ambition. There seems ...
Special Programs in Focus
Eternity and a DayMother, I came to say goodbye. I′m leaving." So begins one of the monologues ot Alexandet, a le" witer. One grey Sunday before he enters the hocpital never to leave again - and prompted by a tours letter from his deceased wife, An...