Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2005
• 90min

Still Life, Sohrab Shahid Saless′ second film, chronicles the forced retirement of a poor old man in a remote part of northern Iran who works as a railroad track guard and switchman. The story is told with a more sophisticated sen...

World Cinema

• Bulgaria,Turkey
• 2005
• 111min

Ivan is a regenerator, a Bulgarian man whose job it is to rename and issue new identity papers to Turkish Bulgarians. His job brings him into contact with schoolteacher Ayten, who is on a mission to steal the official name seals i...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2005
• 108min

Michuko is the twelve-year-old only child of a principal father and a beautiful mother. She believes that she was bom at guillotine for no reason. After watching her parents having sex, she is raped by her father, and she becomes ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2005
• 134min

Sugar Is Not Sweet(1964) is a romantic farce shot in vibrant scope and it returns to Country Hotel′s patchwork style of narrative: there are numerous, largely inconsequential musical interludes, dance sequences and processions, bu...

World Cinema

• France,Tunisie,Morocco
• 2005
• 90min

Hamid is a happy, unwed, celibate journalist. Wishing desperately to avoid becoming like everyone else, he staunchly refuses to get married. His family thinks otherwise and speeds up plans to get him married. With his wedding to R...

Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 110min

Ho-sang encounters a car accident while traveling and his wife falls into coma. Upset over injury, he finds out the name of a man from her book, Sundays August, when goes mountain villa, the destination of their trip. The owner of...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2005
• 129min

Sunflower tells a family history that unfolds in Beijing, a city passing through a Chinese vicissitude; it′s a modem history by way of reminiscences. While a father, a painter, had to leave during the Cultural Revolution, a mother...

Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 112min

At the age of nineteen, Geum-ja is arrested and charged for the abduction and murder of a Being so young and pretty, Geum-ja and her horrific crime becomes the obsession of the m Thirteen years have passed and during that time, ha...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2005
• 90min

Tang is a night show drag queen in Beijing, busy dancing and singing in his sexy costumes and suggestive make-up nightly at clubs or exclusive restaurant stages. But doing the job causes Tang a great deal of confusion about his se...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 100min

-Recipient of Youngsan Fund - Invited to Wide Angle section 10th Pusan International Film Festival. - Acclaimed as the Best Asian Feature Documentary Film at 2006 Syracus International Film & Video Festival. A documentary dir...