Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 133min

In 1950, in the thick of the Korean War, Smith, a UN soldier who crash-lands in Dongmakgol, the North Korean Company Commander Lee Soo-hwa and his group who have fallen back, and the party of Pyo Hyun-cheol, a South Korean soldier...

World Cinema

• Israel
• 2005
• 104min

“Romanians and Chinese workers build our houses. Africans clean them, Thai workers cultivate our fields. Women mainly from the Ukraine and Moldavia provide us with paid sex and caregivers from the Philippines take care of the peop...

World Cinema

• Croatia
• 2005
• 109min

A young widow, an alcoholic priest, a returnee, his German daughter, the priest′s army general twin brother, his mistress and a poet fond of haiku are the main players in this adaptation of Ante Tomic′s novel. Hrvoje Hribar uses t...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2005
• 108min

Based on the critically acclaimed novel by Christoph Hein, Willenbrock looks into the mind of a man who has never been afraid and never lacked confidence when he finally does feel fear and has his confidence stolen from him. Wille...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2005
• 78min

A man longs to have his own child. The first child died at birth, and the second child did not only de at birth, but also made his mother die, too. A devout believer of God, he keeps asking God why he has to go through such traged...

Critics' Choice

• Japan
• 2005
• 93min

A low budget road movie. Having hit a yakuza′s lover by mistake, Yoshiki robs the apartment of Yumeno, his latest acquaintance, so that he can prepare the reparation money. Unfortunately, he ends up killing her parents. Yoshiki es...

PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• Japan
• 2005
• 144min

World Cinema

• Sweden,UK,Denmark
• 2005
• 103min

Director Josef Fares is shifting tone, style and subject with Zozo. His first feature Jalla! Jallal and the follow-up, Kops, were representative Scandinavian comedies, with absurd misunderstandings and clashes of culture and gener...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,China,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 112min

Evident from its title, 20:30:40 talks about the love and lives of women in their 20s, 30s and 40s. The film follows one woman from each generation as she must make important decisions in her ife. We learn that the idea taught to ...

Opening Film

• Hong Kong
• 2004
• 120min

Chow Mo Wan, once imnpossibly in love with Li-chun in In the Mood for Love, still has a lot to talk about and still has endless dream. This time, there are more women: Bai Ling who happens to be a prostitute: Wang Jing-wen, daught...