Special Programs in Focus

• Greece
• 2004
• 110min

Sofianos, a one-time police informer, is an ex-drug trafficker out on probation. When a union leader assassinated, Sofianos is arrested for the murder. He strikes a deal with the authorities to intitrate ana entrap his former coll...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,China,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 112min

Evident from its title, 20:30:40 talks about the love and lives of women in their 20s, 30s and 40s. The film follows one woman from each generation as she must make important decisions in her ife. We learn that the idea taught to ...

Opening Film

• Hong Kong
• 2004
• 120min

Chow Mo Wan, once imnpossibly in love with Li-chun in In the Mood for Love, still has a lot to talk about and still has endless dream. This time, there are more women: Bai Ling who happens to be a prostitute: Wang Jing-wen, daught...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2004
• 3min

This short film was inspired by the filmmaker′s 5-day stav in Pusan and Seoul in 2001. Utilizing Korean advertisements, the film depicts a real love story, although ephemeral, that began and ended within a time span of 24 hours i...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2004
• 11min

This film deals with war, killer virus?s, death, bad economies, unemployment and the all-around uncertainties that surround us these days. 576 emerged out of the frustrations from the filmmaker′s feeling of helplessness in the fa...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2004
• 114min

69 Sixty Nine, Lee Sang-il′s third feature following Blue Chong and Border Lines is based on the novel by Ryu Murakami. The film′s opening sequence, filled with 60s′ rock music and American pop culture-style animation, summarizes ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2004
• 98min

Priest Henri Kremer is an inmate at Dachau. As an outspoken critic of the Reich, Kremer has been arrested and interned. Daily he suffers starvation, over-work, and beatings. He and his fellow priests live in filth, and hope that t...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 18min

A strange air hangs between an old-looking student and the teacher in an empty classroom. The student keeps threatening the teacher, and the frightened teacher delivers an unknown locture Poetry Class puts the events from each ch...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2004
• 85min

Jiang Hu is a new take on Hong Kong Cinema′s celebrated triad genre. Wong Ching-po, a director of independent films, has successfully filmed Jiang Hu by adding modern touches to traditional gangster films. Right after the birth of...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2004
• 19min

Singaporean 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...