A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2004
• 119min

Shinji Aoyama′s psycho-thriller, Lakeside Murder Case, based on a bestselling novel, arouses viewers′ curiosity. Director Shinji has been focusing on the uneventful world until recently. Viewers are inevitably attracted to this ne...

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2004
• 114min

Wim Wenders has crafted a poignant, funny film about contemporary America. Opposing perspectives relay the hope that truth is not an ideal lost in the socio-political realm of America in 2003. Paul is a Vietnam War veteran - a Gre...

Special Programs in Focus

• Greece
• 2004
• 126min

In Landscape in the Mist, Theo Angelopoulos′ habitually retuming father character is absent. His children, Alexandros and Voula, are searching for him. They believe - thanks to their mother - he is living in Gemany. Each night, th...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 82min

A group of illiterate, homeless kids battle for survival on the streets of Yogyakarta; their lives are mired in violence, crime and glue-sniffing. The one person who cares for them is the batik-seller Asih (played by veteran star ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 118min

Set on the island of Sumba (between Bali and Timor) with dialogue partly in the local dialect, this centres on the nine-year-old boy Lewa, whose life changes when an ad-man shooting a commercial gives him a Polaroid camera. Lewa’s...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2004
• 110min

Director Clara Law immigrated to Australia in 1995. Often in her career since then, she has reflected on and asked questions about this new country, also her new home. In October 2002, Law read a newspaper article about a doctor a...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 50min

My mother′s life seen through me, a documentary maker and the questions that I ask my daughter after I become a mother myself.. This is a frank film that shows the relationships between my mother, sister, my daughter and me as my ...

World Cinema

• France,SerbiaandMontenegro
• 2004
• 154min

It is Bosnia in 1992. Luka, a Serbian engineer from Belgrade, has installed himself in a village in the middle of nowhere with his opera singer wife, Jadranka, and their son, Milos. Luka is preparing to build the railroad that wil...

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2004
• 99min

Young Nathalie leaves her rural hometown to fulfill her dreams in the city. Her first order of business is to locate Johnny, a rock star she once met and who told her that she would be welcome to contact him if and when she was ev...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2004
• 5min

How does a movie star′s blind fan appreciate them? And what does the star mean to them? Amitabh Bachchan is a Bollywood icon who must be evoked - for his vision-impaired fans - in alternative ways. This five-minute documentary, b...