Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2005
• 92min

Ho-jun is a college lecturer who lives an isolated life with dissatisfaction for society. He is locked in his bathroom because of a broken door lock. A missionary, Kye-sang, happens to save him. Since then, Kye-sang started visiti...

World Cinema

• Greece,Turkey
• 2005
• 105min

"The film revolves around the subjects of emigration and the longing one perceives for one′s native country; it is also about the responsibility of the mass media. It was my aim to shed some light on an extremely violent and tragi...

World Cinema

• SouthAfrica,UK,Italy
• 2005
• 121min

"This was a story that had to be told, a story that would take cinema-goers around the world inside and event that, to all our great shame, we knew nothing about. But more than that, it would allow audiences to join in the... cour...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 42min

There is a blind masseur who cures by frighteningly pointing out people′s area of pain. His world that is recreated with the senses of his fingertips is a rather peaceful one. That peace is shattered by the woman who seduced him o...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2005
• 97min

A nine-year-old boy living on an abandoned riverboat is the setting for this quasi-coming of age story. The boy leads a solitary life until he meets a girl who lives in a house nearby. She provides his first taste of affection and...

Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 112min

If You Were Me 2 is an omnibus feature film under the theme of human rights. Seaside Flower by Park Kyung-hee describes the everyday life of Eun-hye, who is suffering from Down syndrome. The protagonist of Hey, Man-by Jang-jin is ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 79min

In the autumn of 2004, a showdown was had between the progressive camp that continued its movement for the abolishment of the National Security Law and the conservative forces that obstinately persist in maintaining it. This film ...

Wide Angle

• Thailand
• 2005
• 100min

In the mountains of northern Thailand, Chiang Mai, there is a school for hill tribe children. The students are from different tribes and they speak different dialects. They neither attend school every morning nor go back home afte...

Critics' Choice

• France
• 2005
• 90min

Invisible is the feature debut by Thierry Jousse, who was the former chief editor of ′Cahiers du Cinema′ . At the core of the film is a music composer. He collects sounds from his own sex life in order to use them in his musical c...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2005
• 90min

An old abandoned ship becomes a functioning and ingeniously self-sufficient community for several poor familiesfrom the southern coasts of Iran. Captain Nemat, garbed in a white turban and long robes, runs a tight ship and is a b...