New Currents
Going ByFour cars are driving through the northern regions of Iran. The passengers are all from different classes and have different destinations. They do not know each other, they just happen to be driving along the same road: a middle...
Special Programs in Focus
Where is Tong?Although watching Thai films is kind of rare experience in Korea, Where is Tong? does not seem unfamiliar at all. Perhaps it is because of the universality of the film medium itself, which enables viewers to cross national bound...
Special Programs in Focus
T-Bone Comes to TownThis Thai film, similar to a music video, was filmed entirely from the view of people watching a live concert. This novel and adventurous approach shows the power and the effectiveness of Thai films.
Wide Angle
Wave After Wave : Domestic Violence in the Korean-American CommunityThree Korean-American women from different generations all suffer from violence at the hands of men. One woman, although under constant physical oppression, continues to live with her husband. Another, though divorced, is still fe...
Korean Panorama
FailanGang-Jae, a third-rate hoodlum with a tender heart, has a hard time intimidating debtors and sometimes even gets beaten up by younger hoodlums. One day he hears the news that Failan, a woman from China whom he married fraudulent...
World Chinema
Fat GirlIntrospective and overweight Anais is 12 and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. Her body is both a citadel for her pain and a fortress. Hidden in the shadows or rejected, she is an observer. It′s summer, with a famil...
World Chinema
Pauline and PaulettePauline is a 66-year-old "little girl"; she cannot read, write, or even speak properly. She lives in a Flemish village somewhere between Brussels and the Belgian coast. Pauline′s older sister Martha has been taking care of her eve...
Open Cinema
Fulltime KillerAn action film noir Fulltime Killer is a work without any clear reference to nationality--we only know that it was made somewhere in Asia. The film begins with a typical setting containing two professional killers, a woman, and a ...
Wide Angle
The LandscapeJung Jae-Wan, who is handicapped with cerebral infantile paralysis, spends his days selling all sorts of trinkets on the street. His life is difficult, filled with loneliness and economic hardship. To escape from this reality he v...
World Chinema
LandscapeA century of life in the provincial landscape of an all-but-forgotten Eastern European country ...a doctor performs a small miracle with the help of cigar smoke. A young soldier performs heroics in his lovemaking. A likeable beg...