New Current

• Hong Kong
• 2004
• 90min

Ever since the return of Hong Kong to China, Hong Kong people seem to ask questions like, "Am I really happy?" or "Will I be happy someday?" Their questions root from the uncertainty of their future. Recently, Hong Kong filmmaker...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 21min

The capital of indonesia is Jakarta, and it is the third most polluted city in the world - as well as one of the most populous. As such, the city is abligated to provide enough public transit to meet the demands of its twenty mill...

World Cinema

• Peru,Cuba,Spain,Chile
• 2004
• 93min

The Con Game builds itself around seven unscrupulous characters, revealing their dreams and the way each of them lives and lies in this story full of surprises and traps. Rafo is desperate to sell his car and Gutierrez appears lik...

Wide Angle

• Belarus
• 2004
• 14min

Motherhood ensures the propagation of the human race, and so it is celebrated in a series of archival images in The Continuation. Mothers, families, children, old, young, urban and rural all highlight the fterences among the mothe...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 23min

After writing a note of ′body-abandonment owing to a debt, a man invades an empty house intending to rob it. Met by the husband and wife in the house, he commits cold-blooded murder. Nothing scares him - not the police running af...

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2004
• 126min

Friends Jan and Peter are "The Edukators," young, rebellious and non-violent agitators who break into the homes of wealthy people and leave messages warning that their time in such positions is coming to an end. Jule is Peter′s gi...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2004
• 82min

32-year old Manon goes on a date with her co-worker. A couple of days later, she′s at a car wash when she sees a man with tattoo-covered arms. She rushes home, terrified and distraught, and tightly locks her door. Manon recalls a ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2004
• 105min

In the summer of 1974 when the Cultural Revolution sways the fate of ordinary people, Xing Yu and Si Mong happen to bump into each other on a bus. That short moment decides their destiny forever. The Foliage is a story about a des...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 129min

The lives of several upper class, thirty-something Jakartans are boldly revealed for the first time in Indonesian cinema. The film follows the career and social life of three life-long friends who seem to have conquered the metrop...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 107min

The King Myojang is a violent, belligerent tyrant that destroys neighboring countries. His third daughter, Princess Myosun converts to Buddhism and helps prisoners of war escape. wient told that her ailing father will only live if...