Wide Angle
(A)TorsionFrom 1992 to 1995, during the siege of Sarajevo, the only connection to the outside world for the ordinary people was through a secret passage hidden beneath a runaway at the Sarajevo airport. People called it The Tunnel, but it l...
Open Cinema
Turn Left, Turn RightThe expression that ′there is nothing new under heaven′ might be a perfect fit for melodramas. Johnnie To′s Turn Left, Turn Right also tells a similar story, like other melodramas, but nevertheless impresses us with its unique nar...
World Cinema
The Tulse Luper SuitcasesThis sweeping epic about the life and times of Tulse Luper stretches from the discovery of Uranium in 1928 to the end of the Cold Warin 1989. Luper, a peripatetic writer and project-maker, is caught in a life of prisons. There are...
Critics' Choice
StruggleThe struggle for existence, to earn a living, to subsist, to survive... The film unfolds in the realm of work: in strawberry fields, in factories, in offices, in cars, on the street. The protagonists are Ewa, an illegal immigrant ...
Special Programs in Focus
Family ViewingAtom Egoyan′s second feature, the dark and disturbing-but persistently witty-Family Viewing, resumed the concerns established with Next of Kin(1984): his fascinations with video, ethnicity and family dysfunction. The story centers...
Wide Angle
Being NormalHyun-jung lives with her friend named J who has both male and female’s sexual organs. She gets deeply involved in J’s life and conflicts break out. The film starts off as Hyun Jung’s raw curiosity about androgyny, but it leads to ...
World Cinema
Pornographyln the midst of Nazi occupied Poland, Witold a writer brings Frederic a theatre director, to visit the country estate of his friend Hipolit. Gradually, Witold begins to suspect that the guest he has brought has supernatural power...
World Cinema
Stormy WeatherThe psychiatry department has just admitted a young lady who refuses to speak and whose identity remains unknown. Young Dr Cora becomes fond of her anonymous patient and establishes an usual and intimate relationship which goes fa...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Fu BoThe characters in Fu Bo witness the borderline between life and death everyday. The life of Uncle Fu, a coroner estranged from his wife and son, is more closely related to the dead than the living. Tragically enough, Uncle Fu enco...