Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 4min

Sita is a 14- years-old girl who lives in an isolated house with an old woman, known to her as her mother. With no friend in the area, Sita talks to the flowers on her windowsil. One day, her world is turmed upside-down when she s...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2004
• 110min

For thousands of years, two roads have connected China and Europe, One is the well-known Silk Road on the northern continent, and the other is the ′Tea-Horse Road′ leading from China and southern Tibet to Europe.From the ancient t...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2004
• 8min

Thisfctional piece is about the communication between a woman who dwells in the water and a man who dwells in the sand. The surfaces of the water and the land are connected, and the border between the two raversed by seeds and fi...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2004
• 101min

Irene lives in the strip-mall world of upstate New York. Her marriage is crumbling, she has two sons and a secret cocaine habit that she knows she must end. After entering and completing a rehab program, she returns home only to f...

Wide Angle

• Latvia
• 2004
• 36min

It is a place teeming with life. Mammals, birds, reptiles and insects interconnect in a unique and athenworldly ecosystem. But it is not the Amazon rainforest or any of our oceans. It is a lowly garbage dump To us, it is a filthy ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2004
• 137min

Duel is a film completely different from conventional movies in terms of style. Most other Iranian films that have gained international recognition are documentary films focusing on the marginalized people of Iranian society, such...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 87min

Made via co-production with locations provided by Korea, Duel to the Death is the theatrical debut of Ching Siu Tung, a master of Hong Kong martial arts films such A Chinese Ghost Story(1987) and The Legend of the Swordsman(1991)...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Afghanistan,France
• 2004
• 105min

An elderly man sets out to reach his son with his grandson. The great wind of dust filling the screen seems to stifle the viewers. In the mountains of northern Afghanistan, Dastaguir and his grandson Yassin start their journey to ...

Wide Angle

• NewZealand
• 2004
• 15min

Recent arrivals from Korea, Su Jung and Kim are settling into their West Auckland home. Unknown to Kim, Su Jung befriends the neighbors who take her along to their weekly swimming lessons. When dinner is not cooked and the routine...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2004
• 98min

This is the Chinese version of Cinema Paradiso. Beautiful memories about movies have a huge influence on the individual, regardless of space and time. Jiang Xiao′s debut film Electric Shadows describes love, hate, and reconciliati...