A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2004
• 93min

At a giance, a love story of a gav COuple by a female director seems to be unfamiliar. Formula 17 is filled with the delicate sensibilities of adolescent girls. 7 year-old Tien Tsai arrives in Taipei with an ambition. There seems ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 118min

This film documents the struggle of Korea Telecom temporary workers that began in December 2000nd continued for 517 days. It charts the establishment of the labor union by the workers to the tebanding that came about against their...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 29min

Two guys are having a big Baduk (Korean checkers) match. One is a legendary master who came back to the mach after 30 years after hearing about a friend′s death by swallowing 30 Baduk pieces. The other, young top-ranking player C...

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2004
• 123min

Germany in Autumn is a collective film by some of Germany′s most noted directors: Raine Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlondorff, Edgar Reitz and Alexander Kluge among them The film′s core is the kidnapping and murder of industrialis...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 17min

With an approaching birthday, Shin-e can hardly bear the wait. But mother, separating from father, is always late from working overtime. They never see each other without brawling. The only friend Shin-e has is a goldfish in a bow...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2004
• 105min

Director Marco Bellocchio has crafted a completely contemporary film based on a true story that unfolded over twenty years ago. In 1978, Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped by a terrorist group. It was a crime that shoc...

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2004
• 102min

Based on the novel by Dirk Kurbjuweit - who also wrote the screenplay - Gun-Shy is a poetic thriller which depicts one man′s desolation and disintegration. Lukas is a solitary soul who spends his days delivering meals on wheels. H...

Wide Angle

• Netherlands
• 2004
• 52min

Thirteen years after being trapped in the southern part of Korea, a group of sailors returned home, and one of them wrote a joumal about the events. It is one of the earliest known documents Europeans ever read, or had access to,...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2004
• 135min

Shunji Iwai, who has been creating his own artistic world while still capturing a contemporary sensitivity this time enters the heart of a teenage girl. The funny love story of Hana and Alice, who live in The Iwai World′ will be s...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 97min

Hand of Death, an authentic martial arts film with a revenge plot, is the second Korea-Hong Kong co-production from John Woo, after The Dragon Tamers. Shin was once an apprentice of the Shaolin Temple but betrayed it by standing ...