Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 74min

I′ma film director and one day I leave my sick, old mother and helpless father to retum to a fam in the country. I don′t know why I made that decision. Before I left, I ask my mother to make a belt for me. I remember my mother′s s...

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2004
• 98min

Priest Henri Kremer is an inmate at Dachau. As an outspoken critic of the Reich, Kremer has been arrested and interned. Daily he suffers starvation, over-work, and beatings. He and his fellow priests live in filth, and hope that t...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2004
• 104min

For the teenagers who live on the northern part of the Han River in Seoul, the southern area is the land of wealth and opportunity. Ik-soo and his two friends are high school students in the northern area who live without any spec...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 115min

Near the point of death, a resistance soldier tells his wife where some gold is hidden. The wife is sent to a camp for female POWS, where blatant acts of cruelty and sexual abuse are rampant. An escape attempt is made by resistanc...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia
• 2004
• 113min

It may not be quite like the Genie in the Magic Lamp, but Theo in The Beautiful Washing Machine does strike some luck. His just-purchased used washing machine does at least one trick: it shuts on and off of its own free will. Theo...

Special Programs in Focus

• Greece
• 2004
• 120min

Soyros tells his young daughter about the natural selection process of bees. We only hear his voice. The moment then reveals itself as a reminiscence. His daughter is getting married, and the table we see - and at which we assume...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2004
• 116min

Five thieves, all with their own secret motives, carry out a mega-scale theft on the Bank of Korea. The outcome is successful, but the 5 billion won stolen from the bank somehow vanishes. The principal player, Chang-hyuk, dies. An...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 100min

Since 1963, when Shin Films started co-producing with Shaw Brothers, actors and directors from Shin Films also started to forge careers in Hong Kong, in the form of providing property loans, up until the mid-1970s. The Black Hair ...

Wide Angle

• Estonia
• 2004
• 60min

At one time in the not too distant past, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia were parts of one Ountry, Now, they are four - each with its own money and independent borders. On its route, the Tallinn-Kaliningrad bus crosses three...

New Current

• Japan
• 2004
• 94min

This film delicately depicts the everyday life of ordinary girls on their difficult journey to adulthood Suzu, who has been living with her boyfriend Furuta, gets fed up with his selfishness and leaves him. She goes to her friend ...