A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2004
• 73min

Cui Zi′en, one of the leaders in Chinese queer cinema, has always been interested in boys on the street. Aside from showing the director′s consistent interest on boys, Night Scene is an equivocal, multi-layered film in various sen...

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2004
• 93min

A young woman and a young man live together in an apartment possessing an oppressive silence. He is a failed writer, happy to sit on the sofa all day reading. She is full of life and energy and in defiance, goes out dancing all ni...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2004
• 141min

A twelve-year-old boy and his three younger siblings live all by themselves, totally on their own. The film is not set in a war-torn region or in some poverty-stricken country. It is set right in the middle of Tokyo, the heart of...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 80min

Drum has lost almost everything. His mother died when he was three, and his father met with an accident when he was 17. He parlays his personal tragedy into a successful career as a criminal photojournalist for a daily paper. Drum...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2004
• 117min

Ocean Feveris a story of a rock music festival held in Taiwan in the summer of 2003. The Ho-Hai-Yan Rock Festival has tuned out to be an important opportunity for young independent Taiwanese bands to meet the world since its incep...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2004
• 119min

A normal office worker, with a wife and a daughter, is unexpectedly thrown into a small cell. After 15 years of imprisonment, he is released only to discover he is a suspect to his wife′s murder, and his daughter is missing. His l...

World Cinema

• France,Israel
• 2004
• 100min

Seventeen-year-old Or is a lovely young woman with a real trouper′s spirit. Her still-striking single mom Ruthie has been hooking for 20 years and her health is deteriorating. After a stint in the hospital for Ruthie, enterprisin...

World Cinema

• France
• 2004
• 80min

Our Music is divided into three parts: Hell; Purgatory; and Paradise. The first, Hell, is a montage of clips from movies and documentaries showing war, political conflict and genocide across the ages: battleships, gunfire, execut...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2004
• 111min

Three soviet prisoners of war escape a Nazi convoy near Pskov. It is August 1941, and the frontline has shifted yet again. Needing desperately to hide, the three soldiers take refuge in a local farmer′s barn - the father of the o...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 17min

A happy family is in a bright and sunny arboretum. Struck by a sudden pain, the woman wakes up in hospital room and looks for her husband. The whole situation looks strange. Struggling with memories on the blurred border of reali...