A Window on Asian Cinema

• Riri RIZA
• Indonesia
• 2005
• 147min

Gie is based on the life of Soe Hok Gie, a legendary figure in the time of sociopolitical turbulence in Indonesia during the 1950s and 1960s. A chronological biography covering Soe Hok Gie′s entire life from birth to death, the fi...

Wide Angle

• Seung-soo Noh
• Korea
• 2005
• 24min

Mr. Kim′s family spends the evening in front of the old television set. For the family who longed to have a new television, one day a great big television that they won arrives. However, the bigger television makes the whole famil...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Rakhshan Bani-etemad,Mohsen ABDOLVAHAB
• Iran
• 2005
• 84min

A film that shows how an aimless war destroys individuals′ lives, portrays the life of a woman named Gilaneh. In the first half, the film follows the life-threatening journey of a mother and a daughter to Tehran in search of their...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Jian xin Huang
• China
• 2005
• 100min

A superstar reporter at a Nanjing newspaper, Gu seems to have it all, but his whole universe starts falling apart after Yang begs Gu for public kudos in the newspaper for saving a university coed from rape. This is Yang’s despera...

Wide Angle

• Norihiro Iki
• Japan
• 2005
• 6min

Good-bye Song opens with photographs. Children at a nursery school energetically shout out the name of things they like-from giraffes to dragonflies. Animated renditions of the children′s favorite things are added to live action f...

New Currents

• Zhang Lu
• Korea,China
• 2005
• 109min

There are minorities in every society, and those minorities need an object to rely on, be it power or a lover. Soon-hee, a single mother estranged from her husband, is a minority in multiple senses. She is a Korean-Chinese living ...

World Cinema

• Jan Cvitkovic
• Slovenia
• 2005
• 103min

Director Jan Cvitkovi?s debut film, Bread and Milk, was a sparse, hard film about an alcoholic who gets out of rehab, just to fall back into the same tragic pattern. Shot in black and white and bearing a fatalistic tone, the film ...

World Cinema

• Nanouk LEOPOLD
• Nethelands,Belgium
• 2005
• 90min

Anna is married with a young son-the picture of happiness. Her career as an irrigation specialist takes her around the world, and while in Egypt, she discovers the body of a woman colleague who has committed suicide. Like Anna, th...

World Cinema

• Michael HANEKE
• France,Austria,Germany,Italy
• 2005
• 99min

Michael Haneke′s latest is an exciting thriller while simultaneously being a timely, biting metaphor on first and third world relations. Georges is a successful middle-class husband and father, who hosts a television program on ar...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SABU
• Japan
• 2005
• 97min

Two men, Kimata and Sagawa, rob a bank shile dressed in tight-fitting Santa outfits. But when they run out of the bank, the robbers discover their gataway car has been towed away. They decide to stash the loot in a coin-operate...