Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 257min

A complete departure from Yang’s previous works, A Bright Summer Day has nothing to do with the modern times, but through a juvenile murder case in the 1960s to reflect on the suppression, disorientation and loss of innocence when...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 109min

A girl tries to evade police arrest by jumping from a window. A young passerby comes to her assistance. Afterwards, this young man blows up a series of the girl’s headshots, reminding the audience of Michelangelo Antonioni after T...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 106min

Regarded as the inaugural work of the “Taiwanese New Cinema,” In Our Time is an anthology in four sections showing the passage of life, with each section surrounding a lead in primary school, secondary school, university, and soci...

Special Programs in Focus

• Malaysia
• 2007
• 98min

Dancing Bell, a film by Deepak Kumaran Menon, is about a poor Indian family in Malaysia. Muniammah, a flower seller, has an 11 year-old daughter, Uma, who dreams of becoming a dancer. However her dream remains far from coming true...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 125min

The new east Taipei suburbia is the background for A Confucian Confusion. Through quick tempo and unending dialogues, it delves into the shrewd notions of romance and money of the nouveau middle-class, even art and religion has be...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2007
• 102min

One day, the happy life of a childless couple is disturbed by the mother of the husband. With her strict belief that children are the standard to measure one’s happiness, she insists that Leila must persuade her husband to get a s...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 121min

In Mahjong, Taipei is not only a rapidly emerging city where young people are wasting their youth; it is also a playground which multinational interest groups wish to reap their shares. By following four young men trying to surviv...

Special Programs in Focus

• Malaysia
• 2007
• 94min

Yasmin Ahmad, one of the renowned women directors of Malaysia, describes in detail a girl’s sentiments being awakened to the emotion of a first love. Orked is a 14 year-old tomboy who flies kites and climbs trees with a 12 year-ol...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2007
• 95min

Dariush Mehrjui shows different ways in each of her films and has extraordinary talent in film adaptations of literature. The Pear Tree is also an adaptation of a novel by famous Iranian writer Goli Taraghi. A middle-aged man wh...

Special Programs in Focus

• Malaysia
• 2007
• 72min

In Malaysian history, the communist party played a big role in fighting and claiming independence against Japanese occupation and the English colonists. The Malaysian government tries to take advantage of the fact that the majorit...