Critics` Choice

• Hungary
• 2004
• 120min

The instant this intriguing Hungarian film begins, you find yourself in a sophisticated brain game. where you are supposed to collect clues scattered throughout time and space, and also outline the case. In a remote town, the blis...

World Cinema

• Denmark
• 2004
• 104min

How does one bear the unbearable? That is the essential question for Claes and Britt, a couple in their mid-thirties. Britt is a social worker specializing in inadequate families and Claes is an architect. Their relationship and t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Greece
• 2004
• 210min

Megalexandros is a bandit, cut from the same cloth as many others of his ilk that were rife in Greece in the 1800s. Kidnapping a group of English nobles, Megalexandros spirits them off to a commune in the mountains where he is pla...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2004
• 98min

Under the name of globalization, all banking and insurance-related business enquiries from the United States and Europe are answered from toll-free numbers, with operators provided from India′s cheap workforce. Sue, who just star...

World Cinema

• Austria
• 2004
• 105min

Three couples - in particular three women - in the dreary Vienna suburbs are at the center of one larger tale. Sonja is a fragile woman attempting to handle her anger and frustration with a trying relationship. Eva is a working mo...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2004
• 103min

Based on the popular comic by Masamune Shirow, Apple Seed is the story of life after a devastating war in 2131 A.D. Deunan Knute, a female soldier is taken to Olympus. Accustomed to battle and war, Deunan is overwhelmed by Olymp...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2004
• 100min

Baober in Love is filled with neurotic symptoms. Characters, camera, settings and the story itself are beyond the norm. The film continuously wanders from the excessive running-and-laughing liveliness to the hypnotizing, dazing mo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2004
• 103min

Baytong is the fifth film of Nonzee Nimibutr who stands at the center of the Thai film industry. In the director′s words, Baytong is a "fish out of water tale." It is the story of Tum, a Thai Buddhist monk, who leaves the monaster...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2004
• 98min

16-year-old Ipen sends money to her family from her job of babysitting 9-year-old Dajun, who has a huge hole in the heart caused by his parents divorce. While Dajun hates seeing the fat Ipen instead of the mother he misses in his...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2004
• 80min

In Before Sunrise, two strangers - Jesse and Celine - met one evening in Vienna. Each was alone and they each felt an instant and intense connection to the other. For one night, until the sun rose, they explored the city and allow...