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New Currents (11) Korean Cinema Today (17) Korean Retrospective (15) World Cinema (73)
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King Naresuan 2
A Window on Asian Cinema
Director : Entry Year : 2007 (12) Country : Thailand Running Time : 169min
Director MC Chatrichalerm Yukol of Suriyothai returns to create another grand scale epic. This film series in 3 parts will be introduced this time with its 1st and 2nd parts; the 3rd part will be released in December. In the 16th century, the son of King Maha Thammarcha of ...

Zero Zone
A Window on Asian Cinema
Director : Entry Year : 2007 (12) Country : India Running Time : 101min
Indian cinema brings to mind fantastic costumes and exciting song and dance. However, Arindam Mitra's Zero Zone is far removed from such images. This film is a modern interpretation of Murder in the Cathederal, T.S. Elliot's play about the assassination of Thomas Becket, Archb...

World Premiere
Xiaolin Xiaoli
A Window on Asian Cinema
Director : Entry Year : 2007 (12) Country : China Running Time : 108min
Xiaolin and Xiaoli each walk through a long dark tunnel. The film exposes the dark shadow of modern China through the stories of two unrelated characters. Xiaolin, who earns money through physical labor, suffers from excessive sexual desire but cannot afford to have a girlfrie...

Tuya's Marriage
A Window on Asian Cinema
Director : Quan An Wang Entry Year : 2007 (12) Country : China Running Time : 96min
Winner of this year¡¯s Golden Berlin Bear. Set in Mongolian wastelands, a woman leaves her sick husband for a new life, discovers the value of life in the process, and decides her own destiny. A dazzling film by WANG Quan An.

Those Three
A Window on Asian Cinema
Director : Naghi Nemati Entry Year : 2007 (12) Country : Iran Running Time : 80min
The film delivers its feeling as if we can sense the cold of snow field and the heat of hot springs. Three soldiers - Essi, Yousef, and Dariush - run away from their military base and while wandering in the snow field, encounter a pregnant woman who fell behind a group of peo...

The Unseeable
A Window on Asian Cinema
Director : Entry Year : 2007 (12) Country : Thailand Running Time : 97min
With his feature debut, Tears of the Black Tiger, rising Thai director Wisit Sasanatieng was said to have created the "Tom yam gung Western". His next film, Citizen Dog, displayed a buoyant and fanciful imagination. With these two films, Sasanatieng has emerged as the talent t...

The Sun Also Rises
A Window on Asian Cinema
Director : Wen Jiang Entry Year : 2007 (12) Country : Running Time : 116min
Life is full of riddles we cannot solve. Movies, at times, give us a better understanding of life by showing causal relations in life that are unknown to the characters - from an omniscient point of view. The Sun Also Rises unfolds four different stories one by one. However, ...

The Rebirth
A Window on Asian Cinema
Director : Entry Year : 2007 (12) Country : Japan Running Time : 102min
The Rebirth is a story of despair and renewal by director Masahiro Kobayashi based on a true murder case in Japan. A young girl gets stabbed to death by her classmate. The mother of the offender cannot get over the guilt and the father of the victim suffers from rage and despa...

International Premiere
The Photograph
A Window on Asian Cinema
Director : Entry Year : 2007 (12) Country : Indonesia Running Time : 94min
This PPP project of 2001 took 6 years to complete. Sita who sings at a Karaoke bar also works as a prostitute to send money to her daughter in her hometown. Looking for a new place to stay, she comes to rent a room at the house of Johan who runs a photo studio. She soon discov...

The Most Distant Course
A Window on Asian Cinema
Director : Jing Jie Lin Entry Year : 2007 (12) Country : Taiwan Running Time : 113min
It is a road movie about people finding their true selves and overcoming heartaches through the medium of sound. Xiao Tang sends a tape of nature¡¯s sounds he recorded himself to a former girlfriend without knowing she had moved away. Ruoyun knows the tape is meant for someone ...



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