A Window on Asian Cinema

• 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 subject who speaks of it is different from other fil...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2006
• 181min

“Dashanzi 798,” a neighborhood in Beijing, has a reputation as a mecca for Chinese contemporary art. However, that is a reputation that has emerged only in the past few years. Shen Xiaomin portrays the lives of artists who work an...

World Cinema

• Russia,UKraine,Finland,UK
• 2006
• 139min

Fyodor Bondarchuk takes a page from Hollywood to tell the story of a group of soldiers from boot camp to combat during the last days of Russia`s Afghan war. Like the Vietnam films of the late-1970s and `80s, the squad at the cente...

Midnight Passion

• Hong Kong
• 2006
• 103min

Tang Monk Tripitaka and his three disciples ? Monkey king, Pig monk, and Sand monk are attacked by Root of All Evils and his disciples are captured. With a help of Monkey king, Tripitaka escapes with the Golden Pole, literally the...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2006
• 141min

Byung-du, the second-in-line-to-the boss of a small gangster organization, leads a seedy life violently forcing debtors to discharge their obligations for his own familial responsibilities. He complies with a request from Presiden...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran,France
• 2006
• 85min

The idea of this film, originally under a different title, came to me during my studies. At the time I often travelled from Tehran to my home town, Boroujerd, in the south-west of Iran. I often thought of the petrol station that ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 23min

Yeo-woon KIM, an 80-year-old grandmother has a crush on old man Mr. CHOI, a secondhand dealer. Upon hearing about the death of Mr. CHOI, KIM makes a reluctant visit to the senior citizen`s rest house where she meets a young shroud...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2006
• 109min

A fisherman, Yeongcheol, who lives in an island, arrives at a city in the hot summer to show a white shark to his friend, Jungu. Jungu who is busy with gambling somewhere does not show up, and the shark in Yeongcheol`s bag is goin...

World Cinema

• Denmark
• 2006
• 104min

[A Soap] is a tragic-comic revisionist soap opera, largely set in a single apartment building. The drama begins when Charlotte dumps her boyfriend and moves into an apartment upstairs from Veronica, a transsexual. Initially leadin...

World Cinema

• 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. Regardless of their differences, they get married ju...