Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2005
• 79min

"Whenever I travel, I would eat at Chinese restaurants and listen to their owner′s fascinating life stories. For twenty-five years, I have always wanted to make a film about the Chinese diaspora through the life and times of it...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2005

Based on an article about director-wannabe named Hussain Sabzian, who was arrested for falsely representing himself as Kiarostami in real life, the director made a feature titled Close-up. The question still remained unanswered as...

Critics' Choice

• Brazil
• 2005
• 99min

Johann is a typical German with blonde hair and blue eyes. Escaping from World War II, he flies to South America and now sells aspirin in the remote parts of Brazil. When he gets to a village, he sets up the screen and plays aspir...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2005
• 99min

Glittering with colorful expressions and cheerfulness, Citizn Dog tells a love story between a young man named Pod who comes to Bangkok from the countryside, and a genuine but single-minded woman named Jin. Pod is a delicate and a...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2005
• 60min

Why do we take a picture? Ever since the invention of the camera, we have taken pictures of ourselves and kept the photos. In City of Photos we are introduced to photo studios in small villages, and we are forced to ask what the s...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 14min

A young man and a woman become isolated due to a climbing accident. A man comes by and leaves after fixing a little flag into the ground as a promise to come back with a rescue team. Whenever he meets a victim, he just sticks in t...

World Cinema

• Israel
• 2005
• 90min

Two draftees into mandatory military service in Jerusalem forge a cautious friendship as they patrol the streets. Smadar and Mirit are 18-year-old women with wildly differing perspectives on their service. Smadar, vivacious, flip,...

PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• Iran
• 2005
• 90min

World Cinema

• France
• 2005
• 100min

"For me, it′s more about happiness. All forms of happiness: the intoxication of victory, money, the most intense orgasm. But for you, it′s about whatever you want it to be"-Antony Cordier Mickael is a teenaged boy from a working-c...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2005
• 98min

Recalling the fictional Romeo and Juliet and the real-life James Carville and Mary Matalin, come David Massey and Lea Jones. The polarized America of 2004 is the environment in which this political love story takes place. Director...