A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2007
• 118min

Set in Philippine Science High School, a place for elite students in the 1980s, the film tells the story of 8 students. Director Auraeus Calo Solito incorporates the historical background of the People′s Power Revolution in 1986 t...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 90min

YEON Young-suk is a cultural laborer, singer, and activist. His music consoles the wearied people living in the tense neo-liberalistic society, but to him it is a tiresome reality. He chooses music as the biggest motivating power ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2007
• 106min

Chul-su is an intellectual who anguishes between the separation of reality and the ideals of ideology. The film portrays the life and conflict of partisans who remain in their hide-out in Piagol of Mt. Jiri continuing meaningless ...

Midnight Passion

• Singapore,Thailand
• 2007
• 88min

Inspired by true stories and real-life characters, Pleasure Factory tells an intimate and seductive tale involving pleasure seekers and pleasure providers in Geylang, Singapore′s red light district. In the course of one night, an ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2007
• 107min

This film by Pen-ek Ratanaruang drew the most attention this year among Thai films, and it was also a PPP project of 2006. Wit and his wife Dang return to Thailand after 7 years and check into a hotel to attend the funeral of thei...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 14min

A woman walks up to a road filled with cars. She has puffed rice in her hands and leaves her baby sleeping in a carriage on the side of the road. While this woman sells the puffed rice, walking dangerously through the cars, a waln...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2007
• 102min

A 2005 PPP project, this film captures the lives of Christian farmers in China. Common housewife and Christian, Xiao-Li must provide for her husband, ill with pneumoconiosis, and her daughter. The only thing she has to lean on is ...

World Cinema

• Austria,Germany
• 2007
• 129min

Switch on your television on any given night and you’re likely to find a reality program at some stage of broadcast. The firmly entrenched Reality TV phenomenon isn’t likely to pass anytime soon. As a genre, it’s been accused of t...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2007
• 21min

On a late night in Seoul, a staggering drunken man who appears to be a victim of the human rat race calls for a designated driver. A young female driver, whose face is worn out by the hardships of life, arrives and they start driv...

Flash Forward

• Turkey
• 2007
• 109min

“Rıza, a typical example of life here, is the victim of his fears and is pursued by feelings of guilt. One of my concerns as writer and director was to represent the complexity of his inner life.” ?Tayfun Pirselimo?lu Riza is ...