Critics` Choice

• Iceland
• 2004
• 93min

Though this film is a Norwegian, British co-production, Cold Light is another well made Icelandic film following director Bradley Rust Gray′s Salt from last year. Indeed, the film is obviously a masterpiece, proving the outstandi...

World Cinema

• Hungary
• 2004
• 105min

Who hasn′t felt, at some point in their lives, the desire to disappear from the face of the earth? This moment has arrived in the life of twenty-something Bulcsu, who seeks refuge from his problems at the subway, where he works. A...

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 6min

Three friends find a mysterious object on the road. They agree to find out if it is cow shit while trying not to dirty their shoes.

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2004
• 13min

Royston tan ten Tan tackles the issue of censorship in cut. Featuring cameos of notables from Singapore′s artistic community, this short film articulates the pent-up frustrations from both the perspective of Singaporean ete and t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 3min

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,France
• 2004
• 95min

Life is, sometimes, like a bondage you can never be free of. This is why many myths and legends have commonly used ′original sin′ and ′cruel fate of life′ as their main theme. In that sense, Guansheng′s destiny depicted in Day and...

World Cinema

• Sweden
• 2004
• 108min

Daybreak is a dark and provocative drama that weaves three stories and shows how it is necessary to go the very edge in order to find possible redemption. Agnes and Rickard are preparing to move to another town. One evening, they ...

World Cinema

• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2004
• 96min

Appliance mechanic Fuke goes to his aunt and uncle′s house to repair a broken boiler. Sabira and Idriz have lost their son to the war, and as a result, Fuke is welcomed by a suffocating pain and silence in their home. Unable to co...

Special Programs in Focus

• Greece
• 2004
• 110min

Sofianos, a one-time police informer, is an ex-drug trafficker out on probation. When a union leader assassinated, Sofianos is arrested for the murder. He strikes a deal with the authorities to intitrate ana entrap his former coll...

World Cinema

• Peru
• 2004
• 83min

Santiago Roman, a 23-year-old soldier, is back in Lima after years of fighting terrorist subversion and drug-trafficking inside his own country and during the war against Ecuador. He is part of a lost generation - those who paid f...