Wide Angle
Poets of MongoliaA lyrical documentary that introduces the ordinary lives of people in Mongolia through poetry and song. The world is changing too rapidly to catch up with, and people who have lost imagination in the harsh life don′t dream any m...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Reef HuntersReef Hunters is an allegory about a man′s ambition and despair, which in turn threatens a group and drives him to destruction. Various dramatic motives constitute the structure of this film: the dark memories of a man who has lost...
Special Programs in Focus
The DoorThe Door is a part of an omnibus film, The Tales of Kish, sponsored by the Bureau of Tourism of Kish Island where there is a famous resort. Nasser Taghvai, Abolfazl Jalili, and Bahram Beyzai participated in its production. In the ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
WavesA new film from the master of melodramas, Mani Ratnam. He combines A.R. Rahman′s superb score with beautiful dances to tell this story of ill-fated romance. Karthik and Sakthi fall in love. Though their families oppose their relat...
Wide Angle
MediaMass media satisfies our need for information, as well as our longing for scandals, distraction, and excitement. As time passes and technological devices are perfected, we become more and more involved with mass media and we have ...
Wide Angle
MIMESIS TV - episode1A man is sitting in front of a computer. Floppy-disks are flying by him outside, while a human brain with wings glides within his imagination. This is a profound fantasy of human-media relationship relying on concise images create...
Korean Panorama
La BelleOne day, a magazine reporter receives a call from someone telling him take a woman, who works as a nude model, home. He takes this rain-soaked woman in and she becomes a part of his domestic life. But the woman runs away every nig...
World Cinema
Code UnknownParis, a very busy boulevard: Someone throws a crumpled piece of paper into the outstretched hands of a beggar woman. This is the bond that, for an instant, links the trajectories of several very different characters. Anne, a youn...
Special Programs in Focus
Testing DemocracyMohsen Makhmalbaf′s cinematic vision is that a film should escape the privilege of class. This 40-minute video reflects this notion. Working with Shahaboddin Farokh-Yar, who helped him filming his previous work, The Silence, this ...
World Cinema
The Million Dollar HotelA gang of unique outcasts live in a downtown L.A. fleapit, known as the Million Dollar Hotel. Innocent Tom Tom serves them, and he falls for the street angel Eloise. One day, Izzy, the one of its residents dies and he is revealed ...