Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2006
• 74min

In a drought-stricken southern region of the country, a small boy sets out in search of his missing parents. To escape famine the inhabitants are emigrating from the area, and when the boy despairs of finding his family, he joins ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2006
• 105min

Thirty years ago, the women workers at Dong-Il Corporation realized the need to unite the workers struggle with the pro-democracy movement, and fought against corporations and the state. Losing their jobs as a result, the women, n...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2006
• 108min

Marta, Sebastian and Jozef are virtual strangers to one another, simultaneously heroic and utterly regular. The one thing they have in common is a desperate need for money with which to fulfill their dreams. Each goes to extremes ...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2006
• 80min

Where is Leili? is a cinematic journey into the ethnic music of Iran, providing fascinating insight into regional Iranian music and culture through the works of Mohammad Reza Darvishi, a veteran musician, composer and researcher i...

World Cinema

• Hungary
• 2006
• 101min

When a serious injury cuts short the career of gymnast Miklos Dongo, he decides to head to Canada to resume his life as a coach. But a miserable childhood trapped inside a 1980s-era Hungarian gymnasium and a past dominated by brut...

Midnight Passion

• UK
• 2006
• 93min

The Moorgate Young Offenders Institution is the place where you don`t want to be. The inmates are nothing but trouble makers, and they are beyond control. One of the inmates who is bullied apparently commits a suicide, and the res...

Special Programs in Focus

• 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 could even think of it as a social-realist movie. Hi...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2006
• 127min

Film director Joong-rae is in a creative quagmire. For a change of scenery, he takes a trip to a beach with his friend Chang-wook and Chang-wook`s girlfriend Moon-sook. Drawn to Moon-sook`s charm, Joong-rae flirts her and she doe...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2006
• 99min

[Wool 100%] is perhaps the most eccentric film debut this year that deals with encounters and affection in a fairytale world. The film lives up to the reputation created by the director`s short animations, crossing formats from an...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2006
• 92min

Although she was neither a politician nor an artist, an old woman called Mary was a famous figure to people of Yokohama. Who was she and where is she now? Director Nakamura Takayuki traces her life with the help of her acquaintanc...