Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2006
• 75min

An omnibus work of animation, produced to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the animated film, J.S. Blackton`s [Humorous Phases of Funny Faces] (1906). From the collection of 16 works that is very Tokyo-like in...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 8min

A mother and daughter are on their way home from shopping. After the mother makes a quick stop at the bathroom she returns to find the daughter locked inside the car drinking ant insecticide. A young man wielding an iron wire help...

Opening Film

• 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 waiting for him, and tragically dies in an accide...

World Cinema

• France
• 2006
• 103min

Zingarina comes to Transylvania with her friend Marie to find her lover, who is also the father of her unborn child. Wandering the streets of wine, music and dance during a village festival, she finally meets him, but he rejects h...

Wide Angle

• Bangladesh
• 2006
• 50min

Traveling across Bangladesh meeting mystics and ascetics, the filmmaker explores the different aspects of popular Islam in Bangladesh, including its different sects. Islam, as a classically formal religion shackled with edicts, co...

Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 2006
• 140min

V. Shantaram was at the peak of his form when he made Two Eyes, Twelve Hands. It was a series of superb films he made in his own independent studio Rajkamal Kalamandir, on the problems of independent India?dowry, national integrat...

Wide Angle

• USA,Korea,Italy
• 2006
• 16min

Pam, an old maid living with her widowed mother, knows nothing about life outside the crummy motel they own. Trapped in perpetual adolescence she still doesn`t know what she wants. The only certainty is that nothing will ever ch...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2006
• 56min

Volunteer was a propaganda film designed to promote Japan’s Cho Sun reserve army program. Chun-ho is a sincere young man who follows in his father’s footsteps by reclaiming wasteland and managing tenant farmers. While Deok-sam plo...

World Cinema

• the Netherlands
• 2006
• 97min

Fifty-year-old veteran waiter Edgar wants a change. His wife is chronically sick, he has a terrible job at a terrible restaurant, his neighbors are rude, and his extramarital affair doesn`t offer him much excitement either. On top...

Wide Angle

• Latvia
• 2006
• 12min

The still water of a deserted pool draws Maria to it. She decides to go for a swim in the pool despite warnings that the water is beyond cold. When she gets there, Maria discovers that not only is the water frigid, it has the powe...