Opening (1) Closing (1) A Window on Asian Cinema (39) New Currents (10) Korean Cinema Today (21) Korean Retrospective (8) World Cinema (52) Wide Angle (55) Open Cinema (7) Critic's Choice (12) Special Program in Focus (34) Mid Night Passion (13) Mingming A Window on Asian Cinema Director : Susie Au Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : HongKong Running Time : 105min Ming Ming is a 21st Century martial arts princess and lady Robin Hood who steals for love. Her Prince Charming is D, a maverick fighter and irresistible rogue who posted this challenge to his swarms of female admirers - give him 5 million dollars and he’ll run away with his be... To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die A Window on Asian Cinema Director : Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Running Time : 95min Twenty-year-old Kamal has been married for several months but has not yet been able to consummate the marriage; his wife remains a virgin, and he – sexually frustrated. After consulting a physician and finding that there is nothing physically wrong, he travels to the cit... Syndromes and a Century A Window on Asian Cinema Director : Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Running Time : 105min The film ls about a `flow`; it never dwells in any conventional cinematic form or in completed structure. To create the `flow`, Weerasethakul focuses on the dialogues from daily lives. Those dialogues, however, lead us nowhere in the story; we are just allowed to listen to the... Summer Palace A Window on Asian Cinema Director : Ye Lou Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Running Time : 135min [Summer Palace] is the new film by Lou Ye, one of the most talented and ambitious of the emerging crop of Chinese directors. This film, shown in competition at Cannes, portrays the lives of men and women who suffered the political upheavals of China between 1987 and 2001. Like... Story of PAO A Window on Asian Cinema Director : Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Vietnam Running Time : 98min At first glance, [Story of Pao] is histrionic; it is a melodrama ling of a woman`s suffering from pre-modern patriarchal society. Based on a true story, however, Ngo Quang Hai shows a woman who searches for her own life. It is a story told by Pao, rather than a story about Pao... Scream of The Ants A Window on Asian Cinema Director : Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Running Time : 91min It seems that Makhmalbaf is now putting himself into idealism. His consistent subject matter is philosophical - fundamental questions of the truth rather than the complex, paradoxical reality of our time, as shown in his previous films in his writings about Afghanistan. In thi... The Sakais` Happiness A Window on Asian Cinema Director : Mipo O Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Japan Running Time : 112min The Sakais lead typical mundane lives in Japan. There are no world-shaking events but they still have their problems. Masakazu, the father, is busy working hard and his remarried wife, Terumi, complains that he doesn`t take care of her side of the family. Then there`s the teen... The Road A Window on Asian Cinema Director : Jiarui Zhang Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : China Running Time : 114min When we think of Chinese films that have addressed the topic of the Cultural Revolution, for the most part, we think of the Lost Generation. One thing that [The Road] departs from is this stereotype. On one level, this film represents a film of deep historical interest, in tra... Opera Jawa A Window on Asian Cinema Director : Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Indonesia Running Time : 125min This is a brand-new type of musical… a musical that one can encounter only from Indonesia. [Opera Java] represents the accomplishment of Garin Nugroho`s ambitious dream to represent the glorious tradition of Gamelan in a film. The basic plot is derived from India`s [Ramayana].... Rain Dogs A Window on Asian Cinema Director : Yuhang HO Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Malaysia Running Time : 94min In the familiar frame of a coming-of-age story with delicate touches, [Rain Dogs] ls about the harshness of a boy`s journey to becoming an adult. Wai-Tung, who lives with his mother, hears about his brother`s death shortly after he returns home from visiting him in Kuala Lumpu...   1    2    3    4   Title Director Country