Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2006
• 99min

The letters of the title stand for the New York avenues that make up the city`s famous Alphabet City neighborhood ? home for drug addicts and angry young discontents. On these dilapidated streets, the lives of three young women co...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2006
• 90min

Human feces have become the sole source of energy in a city where nature has dried up and died. In order to accumulate this valuable resource, the government distributes “HARD,” which contains an addictive, hallucinatory ingredien...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2006
• 88min

Siblings Katya and Jaroslaw are dealing with the death of their mother: the lonely Katya embarks on a relationship with an older man, and the freshly unemployed Jaroslaw struggles with the household expenses. Growing up in their n...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2006
• 100min

Bo-kyung, a girl in her twenties living in Seoul happens to meet Ki-yong, who has just arrived from the countryside. He asks her a favor ? to come down to the countryside to meet an old man who misses his runaway daughter. Despite...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• 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 towards his mother, the boy reveals the mother`s secret...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2006
• 9min

A young lady, who has just quarreled with her boyfriend and had an abortion surgery, feels at loss about the hymen complex. She decides to find answer from her mother and grandma. Her elegant and gentle mother tells about her firs...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 15min

YeunJu, animation programmer, has a complicated, busy, boring life. She just goes to the office and comes back home everyday and she has no time to take care of her routine. She is getting stressful day by day. Could she get over ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2006
• 52min

Anchor Light is a melodrama about one woman’s hardships after she leaves her seaside village to move to Seoul. In-sun, the daughter of a poor fisherman, wants to make money and study in Seoul, and so she follows Chul-su who paid b...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2006
• 73min

This film is based on the true story of minister Bang Sung-bin, who helped look after streets orphans. Even though the film was initially censored for portraying the “impoverished lives of the colonized,” it went on to become the ...

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2006
• 83min

Avida starts with a picador who ends up in a suicide attempt. This episode is followed by that of a deaf-mute and two drug addicts that try to kidnap a female millionaire`s dog, but fail. Like a collage, the film continues to intr...