New Currents

• Chao WANG
• China,France
• 2006
• 88min

A new brilliant film from the director of [the Orphan of Anyang and Night and Day.] An elderly country schoolteacher comes to the big city of Wuhan in search of his only son. His d...

New Currents

• YANG Heng
• China
• 2006
• 112min

A film about the rather banal lives of two teenaged delinquents. Unlike many teen films that portray the passionate love and energy of youth, this film draws a portrait of two dise...

New Currents

• WEI Tie
• China
• 2006
• 93min

Director Wei Tie conveys the sharp disjuncture that lies between reality and dreams in contemporary China by charting Zhu Ming′s migration from the countryside to the city and his ...

New Currents

• KIM Tai-sik
• Korea
• 2006
• 92min

Tae-han runs a small stamp shop in a small town. One day finding out that his wife is having an affair, he decides to witness his wife`s infidelity before his eyes. Knowing that hi...

New Currents

• Leste CHEN
• Taiwan
• 2006
• 95min

A queer cinema with the twist of a coming-of-age film? Or a coming-of-age film with the twist of queer cinema? With college looming ahead, relations between childhood friends Jonat...

New Currents

• Mike SANDEJAS
• the Philippines
• 2006
• 105min

A story of a certain rock star that takes a leap back in time through his memory. After a band`s lead vocalist, Teddy, is murdered, another band member, Jett, loses his enthusiasm ...

New Currents

• TAN Chui Mui
• Malaysia
• 2006
• 90min

A special gaze on an ordinary love story - that is director Tan Chui Mui`s gaze on the subtle emotions of love. Aping has moved to Kuala Lumpur from Penang and works at her aunt`s ...

New Currents

• NAKAMURA Mayu
• Japan
• 2006
• 98min

A modest yet ambitious feature debut by director Nakamura Mayu, who works in Japan and the US, describes the wandering years of high school girl Mizuho in `90s Kyoto. She doesn`t g...

New Currents

• HUYNH Luu
• Vietnam
• 2006
• 136min

A tribute to the Ao Dai that symbolizes the lofty and pure willpower of Vietnamese women. A magnificent drama that portrays how one poor and oppressed family manages to maintain it...

New Currents

• TOMINAGA Mai
• Japan
• 2005
• 99min

[Wool 100%] is perhaps the most eccentric film debut this year that deals with encounters and affection in a fairytale world. The film lives up to the reputation created by the dir...