History
Korean Cinema Retrospective: Lee Man-hee, the Poet of Night
04:00-1950- Korea
- 2005
- 92min
A group of Korean soldiers are equipped with some rifles left by Japanese and US Army, standing guard at the frontline post. A corporal who watches his hometown in distance, a new enlisted soldier who doesn′t believe in war, and a...
International Premiere
Special Programs in Focus
A Side B Side Seaside- Hong Kong
- 2005
- 89min
A Side B Side Seaside is a story about two girls who bid farewell to their own youth. Up against the same setting, the two girls′ story of how differently they spent their adolescence overlaps one another. One story is lead by a g...
International Premiere
Special Programs in Focus
3 Needles- Canada
- 2005
- 123min
Spanning continents, Thom Fitzgerald directs a strong international cast in this epic film about people fighting an epidemic. In Canada, cut-rate porn actor Denys repeatedly fakes his blood tests by using the blood of his ailing f...
World Cinema
4- Russia
- 2005
- 126min
The contradictory and seemingly hypocritical nature of human existence is explored in llia Khrzhanovsky′s controversial debut film. Two parallel tales unfold in two distinct spheres. Or perhaps not distinct at all. In a bar in Mos...
World Cinema
5x2- France
- 2005
- 90min
The normal order of things is reversed in Francois Ozon′s latest, 5x2. Instead of beginning where most romances do, Ozon uses the device most recognizable from Harold Pinter′s Betrayal with divorce proceedings his jumping off poin...
World Cinema
The Novena- Canada
- 2005
- 97min
Jeanne is a doctor consumed by guilt. Her life is at a standstill because of the murder of one of her patients and the woman′s daughter-a murder Jeanne believes she could have prevented. Francois is consumed with fear for his aili...
World Premiere
Wide Angle
Ghada - Song of Palestine- Japan
- 2005
- 106min
The camera follows a woman called Ghada, born and raised in a refugee camp in Palestine, through her engagement, wedding ceremony, the birth of her child, and her journey to interview elderly Palestinian women about their experien...
Wide Angle
Garivegas- Korea
- 2005
- 19min
After living in a room in the Garibong area, Sunhwa leaves the area when her company moves. The Garibong Market was a cultural place for laborers as well as the Mecca of industrialization along as the home of the Kuro Industrial C...
Wide Angle
Small Station- Taiwan
- 2005
- 30min
2005 Venice Film Festival Small Station is inspired by a real story. A 60-year-old woman and her 35-year-old mentally disabled son travel from Taipei to a remote train station in the interior of Taiwan. The son is fond of watc...
