Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 19min

An audition for children begins in subtle tension. It starts off without knowing what the audition is for. But through the process we become aware that it is for adoption. Absurdity is presented through the images of children who ...

Opening Film

• Taiwan
• 2005
• 135min

The opening film is HOU Hsiao Hsien’s final version of Three Times, which has been re-edited since its screening at the Cannes this year. Three Times introduces three exquisite tales of love weaved in consummate harmony that uses ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Italy,UK
• 2005
• 115min

A businessman finds comfort and comes to new realizations after having his romantic feelings stoked on a just concluded business trip. Elsewhere a young man finally finds pure love, but is uncompromisingly reminded of life′s oblig...

Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 110min

Film director Kim receives a sudden call from his cousin Il-kyu. Il-kyu calls to say that his mother will meet his father in Yan Jie, China. The two were separated during the Korean War and II-kyu asks if Kim could accompany with ...

World Cinema

• France
• 2005
• 90min

"Romain is a relatively egocentric, cruel character. He decides not to tell his loved ones about his condition, thus leaving them unprepared, which means his death will cause them that much more suffering. But after all, why shoul...

PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• Uzbekistan
• 2005
• 0min

Wide Angle

• France
• 2005
• 84min

Claire Denis has commented on the fact that her films are often referred to as choreographic, and so it is fitting that Mathilde Monnier is the subject of Denis′s latest documentary. A choreographer and director at the Centre Chor...

PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• Mongolia
• 2005
• 150min

Oepn Cinema

• France,UK
• 2005
• 109min

Kumal and Sangha are tiger cub siblings in the wilds of French Indochina. It is 1920, and the cubs are separated when a hunter captures Kumal and sells him to a circus. Sangha is given to the son of a French colonial administrator...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2005
• 17min

This is a world in which protagonists of both animated and live action segments proceed in their respective journeys. Characters continue their incoherent monologues, monsters appear suddenly, and in a world that constantly lacks ...