PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• NARUSE Mikio
• Japan
• 2005
• 124min

Wide Angle

• Rajan Khosa
• India
• 2005
• 12min

The Flower Girl, who lives in the forest along with her Grandmother and sister, has the magical power to transform herself into a flowering tree that bears the most irresistibly aromatic flowers. One day, a wealthy official falls ...

Wide Angle

• Bo-jeong Kim
• Korea
• 2005
• 38min

The daughter who′s in high school is annoyed with having her period while her mother fears her menstrual cycle may have stopped too early. Having fallen in love with a woman who had her uterus removed, the father suffers the menst...

Wide Angle

• Lifen Jiang,Jinghui Meng,Hong Li,LIU Hao,WANG Xiaoshuai,JIA Zhangke,Xiao Jiang,Xiaoru Sun
• China
• 2005
• 29min

Zonbo Media brought together 8 emerging Chinese directors of different styles to make a series of 8 short films by 35mm film, with each film running at about 3 minutes. The films of Focus: This Moment are Out in There directed by ...

World Cinema

• Ira Sachs
• United States
• 2005
• 107min

Rip Tom plays Alan, a legendary music producer living in Memphis-a big fish in a small pond. He lives with his beautiful Russian wife, Laura, and their son. When Michael, his adult son, comes home, tensions stemming from a jealous...

World Cinema

• Aku Louhimies
• Finland
• 2005
• 126min

Leo Tolstoy′s Faux Billet is the basis for this tale of circumstance, destiny and consequence, and how our lives unknowingly intermingle and impact each other-sometimes with tragic results. Beginning with a counterfeit 500-euro no...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Abolfazl Jalili
• Iran
• 2005
• 98min

Seventeen-year-old Navid Raisi leaves his small village to look for a job as a teacher of Persian Literature. Put on a waiting list for the next available fob at the Education Center, Navid finds work as a daily worker. One night,...

Wide Angle

• Sunmin Kim
• Korea
• 2005
• 19min

After living in a room in the Garibong area, Sunhwa leaves the area when her company moves. The Garibong Market was a cultural place for laborers as well as the Mecca of industrialization along as the home of the Kuro Industrial C...

Wide Angle

• Mizue Furui
• Japan
• 2005
• 106min

The camera follows a woman called Ghada, born and raised in a refugee camp in Palestine, through her engagement, wedding ceremony, the birth of her child, and her journey to interview elderly Palestinian women about their experien...

World Cinema

• Christian Petzold
• Germany
• 2005
• 85min

Ghosts are all around us. According to director/co-writer Christian Petzold, they are represented by the homeless, the jobless, the disconnected, living alongside us-in a sort of visible parallel world. The drive to reconnect with...