A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2004
• 130min

M. F. Husain, director of Meenaxi: Tale of 3 Cities, is known as a great figure of Indian art history. Meenaxi: Tale of 3 Cities carries strange colors that seem to cast strange spells. The film does not describe the characters wi...

World Cinema

• SerbiaandMontenegro
• 2004
• 95min

After a ten-year absence, Lazar is returning to his Serbian home. He is a different man now, newly liberated after a decade in prison. Like him, the country itself seems to want a better future. Jasna is a single mother with an au...

World Cinema

• Bulgaria
• 2004
• 91min

As Mila from Mars opens, we see a pregnant and bruised sixteen-year-old girl running away from a clearly dangerous man. She escapes to a remote border village with all of nine citizens: nine elderly people who grow marijuana for a...

World Cinema

• Senegal,Morocco,France,Tunisie,Cameroon,BurkinaFaso
• 2004
• 120min

From acclaimed Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene comes a searing indictment of an ancient practice still carried out today in 38 of the 54 member states of the African Union. Some form of female genital mutilation - also referre...

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong
• 2004
• 9min

A man must bear the burden of great responsibilities and society does little to sympathize with men. MMen must be the "provider" and make numerous decisions, even down to mundane decisions such as choosing a restaurant to go to. ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 35min

This essay film resembles groups of visual language which describe the community, the culture and the family of the director’s childhood. The filmmaker created the film to look like the face of his nation and his family.

New Current

• Korea
• 2004
• 85min

A young man and a woman are poor and somewhat reserved, but they love each other sincerely. The man dreams of becoming a director, but in reality, he is only a part-time weding cameraman. The woman wanders from one job to another ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2004
• 110min

A woman who works in a post office does not like her unrelenting mother. Her incompetent father leads a spiritless life. Her mother is always mean to her father, complaining that he is incompetent. When her father leaves the house...

Wide Angle

• France,Japan
• 2004
• 53min

In the last ten years, Japan has felt at a loss over the recession that has stopped its growth and shaken its pride. Overwhelmed by a series of crimes and failures, the country is ageing. Strangely, a new generation of Japanese fi...

World Cinema

• Iceland
• 2004
• 87min

Jed and Chloe are in their early twenties, in love - and mentally handicapped. When Jed accidentally causes the death of Chloe′s cat, which she loves almost as much as Jed, Chloe retreats into silence and loses her will to live. C...