New Current

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 90min

The Rainmaker is an avant-garde film full of symbols and obscurity. It is the forbidden love story of Johan, a meteorologist who wants to make artificial rain and Asih, a traditional puppet show singer. Asih is the diva of the vil...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 83min

A resistance force that wants to see the Song Dynasty resurrected has gathered around Moon Sung-ju. When he′s arrested by Won Dynasty loyalist Daewonsa, the others plot his rescue operation. They manage to get inside the prison wi...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2004
• 105min

The life of two brothers is shattered by the sudden appearance of their father, who has been virtually non-existent in their lives until that point. In fact, the only way they know their father is from a 10-year-old photograph. A...

Closing Film

• Korea
• 2004
• 115min

Ki-hoon, a graduate from Police Academy, is an elite homicide detective. He′s married to Soo-hyun and he s naving an affair with Soo-hyun′s friend, Ga-hee. A photo studio owner is murdered and the main suspect is the victims wife,...

Open Cinema

• Germany,Mongolia
• 2004
• 90min

A warm and touching story from the Gobi Desert. Directors Byambasuren Davaa and Luioi Ealormi wanted to shoot a real-life story of Mongolian nomads and their camels. Their film is a real-life ston more dramatic than any other fict...

Special Programs in Focus

• Greece
• 2004
• 126min

In an isolated, border zone town, a joumalist investigates the meaning of the town′s nickname: the walting room. The majority of the residents are refugees - in the town illegally - having crossed the border and who are now just ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 25min

A family displaced from its hometown due to dam construction gathers to build grandfather′s 10th anniversary tombstone. No sooner does the family hear that the youngest son can′t come than it gets into a fight. The Swaying Boat po...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2004
• 86min

In the war zone of Kurdistan bordering Iran, on one side, a group of soldiers are searching for landmines. On the other side, a girl is shepherding her sheep. The two that never seem to get alona are always on full alert. They liv...

Special Programs in Focus

• Greece
• 2004
• 230min

Between the turbulent years of 1939 and 1952, a traveling drama troupe jourmeys from province to province, village to village, performing Persiadis′ Golfo the Shepherdess. The increasingly impoverished actors relationship to each ...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2004
• 109min

The Wedding unfolds on the night of a wedding reception. Wojnar is throwing a party for his daughter Kate. His gift to the newlyweds is a new Audi. All the parts are in place: the car, the guests, the band. But events take one unl...