A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2005
• 120min

Even today, many films are inspired by the subjects of city nightlife and taxicabs. Midnight My Love is a love story that was made by the new melding of a familiar subject with urban sensitivity. But is a taxi driver working the n...

Wide Angle

• Finland
• 2005
• 6min

illegal immigrants and migrant workers are a fact of life in almost every country in the world, and well over a quarter million Koreans live abroad illegally in countries like Germany. But only one German resides illegally in Sout...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2005
• 103min

From the animators of Steamboy, Mind Game is a stream of consciousness film, with a surreal succession of sight gags, shifting art styles and animation so alive it looks like it′s being drawn right before your eyes. Mind Game is a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia
• 2005
• 82min

Emerging Malaysian director Ming Jin Woo was inspired to make this film by the Bali bomb attack of 2002. A small group of terrorists in a country based on Malaysia blow up a nightclub with many foreign (particularly American) visi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2005
• 102min

Nomadic families herd horses and lambs in deserted plains. What do the kids of a nomad family do to play? Mongolian Ping Pong is an answer to the question and maybe a little bit more. Bilgee finds a ping pong ball in the river. He...

PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• India
• 2005
• 96min

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2005
• 11min

This film is about the relationship between one man and his eight-year-old Yamaha scooter, named DNU-747. Set in Taiwan, which has the highest density of motorbikes in the world, this films starts with the distinctive motorbike e...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2005
• 103min

The identity of Thai films is difficult to define in just one word, and after watching a film like My Space, one realizes how true that really is. My Space is about young people who are clueless about what to do in the confusion o...

Special Programs in Focus

• UK
• 2005
• 86min

Mona is a fair haired, plain and plainspoken young woman. While she lounges in a field outside of her Yorkshire town home, she has an encounter with Tamsin. Tamsin is dark and exotic, attends a boarding school and meets Mona while...

Special Programs in Focus

• Mexico
• 2005
• 120min

Martin lives amid the dust of the Mexican desert. His community is a group of homesteaders so removed from the rest of society that their settlement doesn′t even have a name. This is a place that is economically and spiritually im...