New Currents

• Hong Kong
• 2005
• 98min

The world feels suffocating when you are young, due largely to discontent with your own soci or with older generations. Every society has its own problems, and every youth has his her own discontent to deal with. One Summer With Y...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2005
• 78min

A man longs to have his own child. The first child died at birth, and the second child did not only de at birth, but also made his mother die, too. A devout believer of God, he keeps asking God why he has to go through such traged...

New Currents

• Korea,China
• 2005
• 109min

There are minorities in every society, and those minorities need an object to rely on, be it power or a lover. Soon-hee, a single mother estranged from her husband, is a minority in multiple senses. She is a Korean-Chinese living ...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2005
• 105min

A road movie where two men and a woman of different nationalities meet and come to a realization, set against the backdrop of the Grand Canyon. Touring the deserts of US, Japanese Teppei accidentally encounters Ali, from Pakistan,...

New Currents

• China
• 2005
• 102min

Silent Holy Stones proves how thin the line between documentary and drama is. The film does not tell story but portrays the everyday life of boy lama and the people around him Tibet. There is no dramatic event taking place. The fi...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2005
• 125min

SSunday Seoul is a film with three nonsensical episodes. A high school student Do-youn who is the victim of bullying in school is the main character of the first episode. He is ugly and bad at studying. What is worse, he cannot fi...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2005
• 122min

One hot summer night, Tae-jeong receives a phone call from his middle school friend, Seung young, who was under his command during his military service. When Tae-jeong meets Seung young, however, it seems like he feels uncomfortab...

New Currents

• Taiwan,Hong Kong
• 2005
• 90min

Children grow up believing in fairy tales. Is it that easily achieved and forever kept? How come the witch always has to die so pathetically? For little girl, Dodo who can′t walk, fairy tales are always full of mystery. When her f...

New Currents

• India,France
• 2005
• 92min

The film begins with Sarit′da, a man in his 30s, who decides that he has had enough of urban terrorism′, namely urban noise. His over-sensitivity to the noises of the city makes the audience rethink how psychologically damaging ur...

New Currents

• Iran,Japan
• 2005
• 81min

A feature debut of Mohammad Ahmadi, the director of the documentary Captive, Waiting presented at PIFF 2002. Written by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film deals with the growing-up story of an innocent 25-year-old cleaner, who comes to g...