Wide Angle
Wet Sand: Voices from L.A. 10 Years LaterIn 1993 documentary filmmaker Dai Sil Kim-Gibson released Sa-l-Gu, her powerful film about communities, including Korean-Americans, struggling in the after math of the "L.A Uprisin...
Wide Angle
The ZoneIn the 1970s Swedish-born Jewish photographer Esaias Baitel immersed himself in a Parisian suburb where motor bikes, rock and roll, and swastikas go hand in hand. Keeping his Jewis...
Wide Angle
Burning DreamsPortraying the lives and dreams of various generations of dancers and students in "The Shanghai Dream Factory Danceand Art School", Wayne Peng reveals the changing face of China an...
Open Cinema
EternityIn the ancient 10th century Indian Kingdom of Mala, the King and Qieen are asked to carry out an unpleasant ′request′ of the senate committee. Due to the King′s impotence, the Que...
Open Cinema
Get upGet Up deals with the hilarious happenings related to a James Brown, ′the King of Soul′, concert. The director Izutsu Kazuyuki, famous for Nodojiman, which portrayed the contestant...
Open Cinema
Good Bye, LeninOctober 1989 was a bad time to fall into a coma if you lived in East Germany and this is precisely what happens to Alex′s proudly socialist mother. Teenage Alex has a big problem o...
Open Cinema
Ong BakA challenging spirit lies beneath the rapid rise of recent Thai films. Take the action film genre as an example. To add Thai traditional action style to Hollywood and Jackie Chan-i...
Open Cinema
Whale RiderIn one New Zealand coastal village, the Maori people claim descent from Paikea, the Whale Rider. A first-born male has assumed the title of Whangara chief for nearly a thousand yea...
Open Cinema
ZatoichiTakeshi Kitano is back in town, this time with a historical film. An encounter with the legendary director is enough to make Zatochi worth watching. Takeshi Kitano made his way int...
Special Programs in Focus
The Orphan of AnyangThis is a debut feature based on the novel which the director himself wrote. Dagang is over forty, unmarried(not by choice), and unemployed. He takes on an orphan in order to recei...