Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2005
• 105min

As a 20-year-old college student who just entered adulthood, Gadi spends each day in gloom. Due to the memory of having been betrayed by her friend and boyfriend, she lives life without much will. She becomes a loner who doesn′t o...

World Cinema

• Turkey,Greece
• 2005
• 98min

Dysfunctional, lost people trapped in repeating cycles that they′d like to escape populate Angel′s Fall. Zeynep works as a hotel housekeeper. Her days are filled with tedious work, shared by her only friend, Mustafa. Mustafa has a...

Wide Angle

• Switzerland
• 2005
• 97min

Gendun Choephel was one of the earliest of the 20th century′s great rebels. He was an outspoken critic of the establishment and authority, a free spirit and since the time he was active in the 1930s has become a symbol of long sou...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 110min

Lee Hee-Ja has launched a lawsuit against the Yasukuni Shrine and the Japanese government in order to withdraw the enshrinement of her father. Furukawa is the Japanese man who organized the support committee for the lawsuit regard...

Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 105min

In-su′s Sujin, accident Sam-chuk while Kyung-ho was her car. In-su meets Kyung-ho′s wife, Seo-young, corridor hospital. They out Sujin and Kyung-ho′s affair which more unbearable accident itself. In-su Seo-young with sense of betr...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2005
• 45min

Twenty-four years after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, there is still a legal prohibition against female singers singing in Iran. However, rumors start to circulate about females being permitted to sing as part of a duet. This ne...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2005
• 100min

Ballad of the Man is the title of Teguh Karya′s first film, produced in 1970. By observing and contemplating the main message at the film′s core, it is revealed as a reflection of Karya′s individuality. Amallo feels like a strange...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2005
• 90min

Be With Me is a tapestry of three stories woven around the themes of love, hope and destiny. In Meant to Be, an ageing shopkeeper grapples with loneliness, until one day, he chances upon an autobiography which changes his life. ...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2005
• 100min

In Chengdu, China, we can see the feast of dance in a bar. We can enjoy a variety of dances Chinese classical dance, ballet, and modern dance-in the red spotlight. There′s no guideline for what to play or what to dance. But there′...

Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2005
• 104min

Before Born is the new film made by director Ming Zhang who won the New Currents Award at the Pusan International Film Festival for his film Rainclouds over Wushan. Arriving at Bei Hai to find a man named Li Chonggao, Huang Guangl...