A Window on Asian Cinema
Electric ShadowsThis is the Chinese version of Cinema Paradiso. Beautiful memories about movies have a huge influence on the individual, regardless of space and time. Jiang Xiao′s debut film Electric Shadows describes love, hate, and reconciliati...
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En RouteYoung mother Sandra is on a camping holiday in Brandenburg (Eastern Germany), south of Berlin, with her new boyfriend, Benni, and her six year old daughter, Jule. They run into Marco, solitary, enigmatic youth, who introduces hims...
Wide Angle
Eternal GazeOn January 11, 1966, the modern art world lost one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, Alberto Giacometti. Inspired by the life and torment of this legendary man, Eternal Gaze follows the artist through Ciat nine ve...
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Eternity and a DayMother, I came to say goodbye. I′m leaving." So begins one of the monologues ot Alexandet, a le" witer. One grey Sunday before he enters the hocpital never to leave again - and prompted by a tours letter from his deceased wife, An...
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Even Dogs Have ChoicesSingaporean pop star X′Ho was invited by documentary filmmaker Zai Kuning to be involved in a film about Singapore′s tattoo culture. When X′Ho realized that the film - Living Digitally - would be screened at Singapore′s primary p...
World Cinema
ExilesOne day, Zano suggests to his lover, Naima, that they both set out for Algiers in order to discover the land their parents had to flee decades ago. Lost in the perils of immigration, these two children of the Diaspora take to the ...
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Fashion StatementA young, successful shoe shop owner has his world tuned upside down one day by an unlikely culprit. Everything in the shoe seller′s life and career is going well, when one day into his store walks a barefoot man. Fashion Statemen...
World Cinema
Father`s GardenJean and Marie are newlyweds on their honeymoon in Africa. Jean - the son of a colonist - wants to show the country to his new bride. But this is not an ideal vacation destination. Africa in Father′s Garden is in turmoil, struggli...
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FingerprintVerox boy Su-in refuses to work at the resident′s registration office. A girl from the village office- who once photocopied a letter of complaint with a picture of herself brutally beaten attached - shows interest in him. Her app...
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FlatlifeEveryone has his or her routines - especially when it comes to the home. But when does hanging a picture become a hazard to our health? How could special skills be required to do the laundry? Is leisurely constructing a house of ...