Wide Angle

• Brazil
• 2009
• 110min

United Nations statistics indicate that almost one-sixth of the world’s population suffers from chronic hunger, a concept often misrepresented or manipulated in the media. Jose Padilha removes hunger from the political arena to in...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 26min

An elementary school teacher Da-eun tells her boyfriend to break up all of a sudden. Meanwhile her sister Yoo-eun becomes absent-minded after her relationship split up by her boyfriend. Stragely, Da-eun follows her class student A...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 104min

2003, Song Du-yul, a philosophy professor, decided to go back to his homeland after spending thirty-seven years in Germany. Within a week after crossing the border, his reputation fell from a respected global political figure to a...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2009
• 9min

Once upon a time, a young stranger enters a town; by accident, he is informed that a cunning tailor lives in that town; he decides to make the robber tailor egregious. This is Rashin Khayriyeh′s first animated film. She is a membe...

Wide Angle

• Armenia,Netherlands
• 2009
• 82min

Told from the point of view of a rescued buffalo, [Border] is the story of a small town trying to find itself after the Armenian-Azeri conflict. The buffalo’s reception by the other farm animals reflects the distrust rife in the c...

Wide Angle

• United States,Korea,France
• 2009
• 75min

[Kimjongilia], a flower known to be bred to celebrate North Korean leader Kim Jong Il′s 46th birthday,is used here ironically as the title of the film, in contrast to the stories the defectors tell. This film reveals stories told ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2009
• 24min

From the early morning, Soo-jin is full of worries. Her mother is making fried seaweeds for her son, who returns from US next week. Despite the great weather, today is such a long day for Soo-jin. She couldn′t tell her mother abou...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2009
• 14min

When 7-year-old Sophie can’t find a way to escape the suffocating glare of her single mother and brothers, she retreats into a fantasy world that gives her the space she desires. After two failures and with her goldfish in tow, So...

Wide Angle

• United States,Singapore
• 2009
• 7min

A black comedy depicting the events that conspire against O, who eats ramen on a fire escape. A gust of wind slams his window shut, leaving him stranded. He scrambles to the sidewalk, only to find every door and window locked - th...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2009
• 61min

Lee Chong Ngak (70) has cancer while his daughter, Ellen Lee, volunteers at a hospice. She videotapes her dad’s last days documenting his wishes so the son cannot stir up troubles. As Lee suffers the strength of the family is put ...