Critics` Choice

• Argentina,France
• 2004
• 76min

Los Muertos begins with a scene showing two dead bodies in the forest. Then it tracks the trail of a South American Indian man who comes to realize that life is full of unexpected incidents. This man, just out of prison, is on his...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 17min

After a call saying her mother is sick, Yun-ji hurries home but gets lost in the subway station. A small girl separated from her mother appears at the lost and found and registers herself as lost property. Yun-ji and her mother do...

World Cinema

• Argentina,France,Italy,Spain
• 2004
• 100min

Lost Embrace is the story of a first, painful encounter between a father and his adult son. Ariel Iives in a slightly seedy shopping district in Buenos Aires. His mother sells lingerie, his brother is. an importer-exporter and amo...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 100min

Garin’s debut feature is a glossy drama about a sexual triangle, much influenced by the early features of Godard and Truffaut. The three central characters are yuppies (‘young urban professionals’). Harris, married to the magazine...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2004
• 105min

Low Life is the story of a man named Tae-woong who led a turbulent life during the political and social turmoil from 1958 to 1972. The story starts with Tae-woong in high school in Seoul in 1958. He is an honorable fighter in his ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2004
• 108min

The film is based on a true story. In the rural village of Prom Pi Ram, Thailand, a young woman is found dead beside the train tracks. At first, her death seems like an accident. As the police investigation progresses, however, it...

World Cinema

• Spain,Chile
• 2004
• 120min

Gonzalo Infante and Pedro Machuca are 11-year old classmates at Father McEnroe′s elite parochial school. It is Chile of 1973. Gonzalo lives in a wealthy neighborhood just a few blocks from Pedro′s shanty town. Father McEnroe force...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2004
• 47min

There are over 70,000 domestic helpers from the Philippines living and working in Singapore. Myla, who latively new to Singapore, wins the "She s My Girl" title in a beauty contest for overseas Filipino kors Vicky has been in Sin...

World Cinema

• United States,Colombia
• 2004
• 101min

Maria Alvarez is trapped in a rigid, tedious, stifling life in a rural community near Bogota. While on a search for a new job, she meets a young man who offers her excitement - and wealth to go with it. She will be a drug mule. He...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong
• 2004
• 78min

A housewife, forever short of money, Madame McBing looks after her son McDull, a daydreaming piglet. Hoping to anticipate problems that might arise from the uncertain political situation, she starts taking out insurance policies, ...