Opening Film

• KIM Daeseung
• Korea
• 2006
• 117min

Passing a juridical examination, Hyun-woo proposes to his long-time lover Min-joo. Hyun-woo is, however, late for an appointment with Min-joo. She shops at a department store while...

Special Programs in Focus

• CUI Zi′en
• China
• 2006
• 86min

A naked Martian visits Earth. Xiao Bo brings him home so that they can learn from and about each other. The lessons start with basics (the land, the water), but before you know it ...

Special Programs in Focus

• KIM Daeseung
• 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 co...

World Cinema

• Robert FAVREAU
• Canada
• 2006
• 118min

Documentarian Bernard is in Rwanda, growing increasingly weary of the conflict and disease that afflict the nation. Gentille is a young waitress he meets and falls in love with. Re...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Royston TAN
• Singapore
• 2006
• 93min

Director Royston Tan refers to 4:30 a.m. as the loneliest time because it is too late to sleep and too early to wake, and the film earnestly describes that solitude. However the su...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Patrik TAM
• Hong Kong
• 2006
• 150min

He had the looks. Respect from friends. A real ladies man. Now it`s all gone except for one thing. His smart and loyal doting young son. Despite fearing the father`s violence towar...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• James LEE
• Malaysia,Hong Kong
• 2006
• 99min

Does absolute love exist? It might exist for those who believe in it, and might not for those who don′t. The world, however, is not that simple. What if two people, one of them a b...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Jeffrey JETURIAN
• Philippines
• 2006
• 98min

Jueteng is a numbers game that has been popular in the Philippines since the Spanish colonial period. It is officially illegal, but jueteng operators may be found all over the coun...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SHENG Zhimin
• China
• 2006
• 96min

This is a film that ruminates over the meaning of family and insists that meaning should include understanding, love, and unconditional support for blood ties. Middle-aged Lao Li ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• DAI Sijie
• China,France,Canada
• 2006
• 105min

Min, an orphan girl, sets off to study with a renowned botanist. A secretive man and authoritarian father, the professor lives on an island that he has transformed into a luxurious...