Wide Angle
Best of the WurstThis documentary chronicles a Korean American woman′s discovery of Berlin through its ultimate street foodt currywurst-a strange fusion of sausage, tomato ketchup and curry powder. Fed up with life in Los Angeles. the filmmaker e...
World Cinema
ExilesOne day, Zano suggests to his lover, Naima, that they both set out for Algiers in order to discover the land their parents had to flee decades ago. Lost in the perils of immigration, these two children of the Diaspora take to the ...
New Current
Waiting AloneWaiting Alone is a seemingly common love story of young Chinese people in the modern world. Why does Director Dayyan Eng tell the same old love story? He wants to focus on the rapidly changing life style of Chinese youth and their...
World Cinema
Intimate StrangersBecause she picked the wrong door one day, Anna ends up confessing her private and intimate marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Touched by her distress, and somewhat excited as well, Faber does not have t...
Wide Angle
Silent CompanionIn the period of the American invasion of Iraq (American-Iraqi War), an Iraqi man crosses the reed-bed on he horders of Iran and Iraq in order to join up with his Iranian friends and attain a bridal dress for his bride. He must fa...
Wide Angle
Silent ForestA film that shows the destruction of the environment by man′s greed... This documentary shows how wld animals are hunted down in the name of health. The few remaining wild tigers in China are pesis to famers but the Chinese govern...
Wide Angle
Hiding Behind the Camera part 2Director Carl Johan De Geer grew up in an upper class home with his grandparents, his parens Iiving in another country altogether. As a teenager, he left his affluent home behind and set out to forge a completely different life fo...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Cafe LumiereThis homage to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Ozu′s birthday is paid by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Hou tries to portray the real life of today′s Japan, just as Ozu did. Yoko, a documentary writer has a lover in Taiwan and is pregnant ...
Open Cinema
CasshernCasshem looks like a SF music video. There aren t many conversations between characters, but soliloquies with music playing in the background abound. This theatrical version of a famous 1970s animated TV series uses a combinatio...
Critics` Choice
CampfireOutside of film festivals, Israeli films are usually hard to see. Campfire is a story of three women living in Jerusalem, Israel of 1981. A 42-year-old widow, Rachel, and her two teenaged daughters, Esti and Tami, are the main ch...