Critics` Choice

• Vladimir MORAVEK
• Czech
• 2004
• 103min

At any time, in any nation, sexuality has always taken up a solid part of people′s living and lives. This is because sexuality is an essential element constituting not just a natio...

Critics` Choice

• Joseph CEDAR
• Israel
• 2004
• 95min

Outside of film festivals, Israeli films are usually hard to see. Campfire is a story of three women living in Jerusalem, Israel of 1981. A 42-year-old widow, Rachel, and her two t...

Critics` Choice

• Hilmar ODDSON
• Iceland
• 2004
• 93min

Though this film is a Norwegian, British co-production, Cold Light is another well made Icelandic film following director Bradley Rust Gray′s Salt from last year. Indeed, the film ...

Critics` Choice

• Eléonore FAUCHER
• France
• 2004
• 88min

Two women are trapped in despair. One is Claire, who is in her late teens and is pregnant against her will. The other is an Armenian woman, Melikian, who raised her son alone but l...

Critics` Choice

• Lisandro ALONSO
• Argentina,France
• 2004
• 76min

Los Muertos begins with a scene showing two dead bodies in the forest. Then it tracks the trail of a South American Indian man who comes to realize that life is full of unexpected ...

Critics` Choice

• Jane SHIN
• Korea
• 2004
• 103min

The principal of Angel′s House orphanage teaches children that eating is a sin in order to reduce operating costs. So the children secretly drink milk and eat pies to ease their hu...

Critics` Choice

• Jonathan CAOUETTE
• United States
• 2004
• 88min

Tamation, a film by Jonathan Caouette, is a unique documentary that carries both the avant-garde′s experimentalism and melodrama′s heartwarming tenderness. The director, who grew u...

Critics` Choice

• Tawfik Abu WAEL
• Israel
• 2004
• 110min

Thirst by Palestinian director Tawfik Abu Wael is a story of a family yearning for a bucket of water in a barren land. The family has lived on an empty land the Israeli government ...

Critics` Choice

• Masafumi YAMADA
• Japan
• 2004
• 68min

Tsuburo is a film about a man and a woman who are caught in the middle of an incident without knowing either the cause or the result. In the film, the world is suddenly overwhelmed...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Phaoon Chandrasiri
• Thailand
• 2004
• 110min

The Letter is a remake of director Lee Jung-gook′s film from 1997. Dew leads a solitary life after the death of her grandmother and roommate. She ends up marrying Ton after an inci...