Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 100min

Since 1963, when Shin Films started co-producing with Shaw Brothers, actors and directors from Shin Films also started to forge careers in Hong Kong, in the form of providing property loans, up until the mid-1970s. The Black Hair ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 21min

7 year-old Young-hee and her mother live with the prevailing absence of her father, who is having an affair. The outside world, her mother′s reality and the hole left by her father are all seen through the child′s eyes. Although ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 17min

After a call saying her mother is sick, Yun-ji hurries home but gets lost in the subway station. A small girl separated from her mother appears at the lost and found and registers herself as lost property. Yun-ji and her mother do...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 17min

A happy family is in a bright and sunny arboretum. Struck by a sudden pain, the woman wakes up in hospital room and looks for her husband. The whole situation looks strange. Struggling with memories on the blurred border of reali...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 75min

Atheater director and a group of actors are hard at work, trving to put a play called "Whore House on stage in Pusan. The rehearsals go on relentlessly but some things are definitely not right. The director is angry at the actors ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 80min

Drum has lost almost everything. His mother died when he was three, and his father met with an accident when he was 17. He parlays his personal tragedy into a successful career as a criminal photojournalist for a daily paper. Drum...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2004
• 11min

The director uses similar freeze-frame images in dissolves to convev a sense of movement and three-dimensionality far greater than what is found in standard animation. The abbreviated information presented lies somewhere in betwe...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2003
• 10min

Metropolitan Tokyo. A boy on rollerblades with a bow and arrows enjoys shooting the crows that haunt the city landscape, until one day he meets a mysterious woman in black...

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 2003
• 110min

What makes Germany so distinctly German?Ten experts from ten different countries offer not only a stranger′s point of view, but also the expertise of their particular field. The Russian author Wladimir Kaminer offers his interpret...

New Currents

• Singapore
• 2003
• 93min