Wide Angle
A Vital ActivityTwo lovers, Chang-No and Sung-Mi are in their early 20s, and they want to have sex as soon as they meet, but neither of them have enough money or time. As they search for a place to have sex, they accidentally find the door of an ...
Special Programs in Focus
ShabnamYoung Shabnam lives a life of solitude and loneliness in the ruins of Kabul with other parentless children. She would like to live in the already crowded orphanage but the director of the institution explains that other more needy...
New Currents
The Road TakenThis film is about the long imprisonment of Kim Sun-myung who was taken prisoner as a North Korean soldier during the Korean War in 1951. Kim Sun-myung was imprisoned for 45 years, and by special pardon was sent back to North Kore...
World Cinema
The IslandUnder the watchful eye of their fisherman father, Turi and Teresa live on a small Sicilian island. Reserved, slim and clumsy , 14 year old Turi is to join his father in the tuna trade. Fearing he will be rejected, Turi becomes com...
Wide Angle
Salt-Korean Railway Women Workers StoryWatching the trains come in, making sure that they are properly connected, and taking care of the passengers’ needs inside a moving train are tasks that appear to be simple but not many people know that they can be very dangerous ...
Critics' Choice
SaltFrustrated by life in a small lcelandic town dominated by a fish factory, Svavva makes a decision to move to Reykjavik. Svavva′s boyfriend Aggi and her subdued sister Hildur are not convinced of the wisdom of such a move. Accordin...
A Window on Asian Cinema
In the Forest...AgainIn the Forest Again can be seen as a sequel to Days and Nights in the Forest (1969) by renowned Indian director Satyajit Ray. It was when Goutam Ghose was making a documentary about Satyajit Ray that he got an idea for a sequel to...
World Cinema
Jagoda in the SupermarketIn this frenetically paced farce, Jagoda (whose name means strawberry) is a checkout clerk at an American-style grocery store in Belgrade celebrating its grand opening. When a brazen co-worker steals her customer and potential dat...
Korean Panorama
Untold ScandalThis film is an adaptation of the 18th Century French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses adapted to fit Korea′s Chosun Dynasty period. The Chosun Dynasty had more repressive customs than Europe in the 18th Century, and consequently ...