Films by Darezhan Omirbayev, Eric Khoo, Pen-ek Ratanaruang
Fri 09.02.
20:00
Cinema
Arsenal 1
Director
Darezhan Omirbayev
Republic of Korea, Kazakhstan / 2006
38 min.
/ Digital file
/ Original version with English subtitles
Omirbayev directs his short film adaptation of the short story “Gooseberries” by Anton Chekhov with the same sense of sobriety that characterizes the unrealized feelings between a married woman and a friend of her husband.
Director
Eric Khoo
Republic of Korea, Singapur / 2006
39 min.
/ Digital file
/ Original version with English subtitles
NO DAY OFF describes the life of Indonesian housekeepers in Singapore in unflinching fashion. Siti is exemplary of this modern slave trade, who has left her small child behind at home in order to earn money abroad for a supposedly better future.
Director
Pen-ek Ratanaruang
Republic of Korea, Thailand / 2006
39 min.
/ Digital file
/ Original version with English subtitles
TWELVE TWENTY is an elegantly staged love story that only takes place in thoughts and lasts for exactly the 12 hours and 20 minutes of a flight on which a man and woman are seated next to one another.
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