Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia,France
• 2006
• 93min

22 year old Sebastian is a house repairman who has nothing going on in his life with poor family to support. While he is at his work, he finds a letter, intended for someone else, with a train ticket and a set of instruction to pa...

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2006
• 88min

After a car accident, Arthur falls into a coma. Then, he has to face an odd enigma: what was he doing on this road near Cherbourg? His disturbing speech of incoherent sentences coming straight from his unconscious has been written...

Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2006
• 89min

[Withered in a Blooming Season] picks up many of Cui`s key ideas and dramatic motifs but presents them in a fresh context, making this very different from the earlier films: you could even think of it as a social-realist movie. Hi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2006
• 94min

A young boy who lost his home during the war, Amiro now lives in an abandoned ship. He spends his days working odd jobs, until he realizes that the only way that he can realize his dreams is by enrolling in school. Hungry for know...

Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 2006
• 140min

V. Shantaram was at the peak of his form when he made Two Eyes, Twelve Hands. It was a series of superb films he made in his own independent studio Rajkamal Kalamandir, on the problems of independent India?dowry, national integrat...

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2006
• 102min

In late 1770, France is on the verge of the revolution. A country nobleman visits Versailles seeking the funds to drain the festering swamp back home. All he receives is icy treatment, until he meets the Marquis de Bellegarde. Wit...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2006
• 74min

Twentysomething Gretchen (Sara Paul) is a crossword addict who has challenged herself to complete 77 puzzles in 24 hours. Almost pathologically dependent on noise, she inexplicably chooses to work in the New York subway system, ch...

Special Programs in Focus

• France,Belgium
• 2006
• 95min

Martin, an 11-year-old boy, lives in a rural French village with his disturbed family. His sick mother prefers stays in her own room avoiding her sons, and his brother falls into an alcoholic tailspin. Martin`s father, still under...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2006
• 74min

In a drought-stricken southern region of the country, a small boy sets out in search of his missing parents. To escape famine the inhabitants are emigrating from the area, and when the boy despairs of finding his family, he joins ...

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2006
• 110min

Ferdinand is an ex-Spanish teacher living with a wealthy Italian wife. When a beautiful babysitter, Marianne, comes into Ferdinand`s life a mysterious air comes along with her ? and between them. Accompanying his wife to a recepti...