Special Programs in Focus

• Greece,Italy,France
• 2004
• 170min

Three autonomous stories - The Weeping Meadow, The Third Wing and Retum- elegantly chronicle the broader story of a time just passed, and acts as a summation of our recent departed century, and the century we are embarking on. The...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• France,Thailand
• 2004
• 118min

Tropical Malady is one of the most creative experimental films released this year. The film is mainly composed of two parts. The first half is about Keng, a serviceman, who is having fun with his friend, Tong, during his vacation....

Critics` Choice

• Japan
• 2004
• 68min

Tsuburo is a film about a man and a woman who are caught in the middle of an incident without knowing either the cause or the result. In the film, the world is suddenly overwhelmed with disasters, and the characters start exhibiti...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2004
• 98min

Tragedy is not over yet. Bahman Ghobadi, who has been continuously talking about the sad history and fate of the Kurds, turns to tell another bitter story of the American attack on Irag. Many people who have been suffering under S...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2004
• 100min

A poor farmer, De-shan, living in a cold and dry village in the midst mist-covered rocky mountains, gets the chance of a lifetime: he receives two sheep for free as part of the village development program. The two imported sheep,...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2004
• 10min

There is a boy, who is looking for something, walking along the silent street. He sees a half moon-shaped amme and a flag with 33 formations. Thinking that the name card in his hand has the same mark as what he saw, he rings the ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Greece
• 2004
• 176min

Tuming to The Odyssey for inspiration, Angelopoulos crafts a film about the burden of memory each of us carries with us. A Greek-American filmmaker identified only as A, returns to his hometown in northern Greece when his latest f...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2004
• 121min

Koki Mitani, the screenwriter and Mamoru Hoshi, the director meet to create an original comic film Just like all the other Koki Mitani′s dramas, most of the story in University of Laughs unfolds in one single space. We know very w...

World Cinema

• Czech
• 2004
• 108min

Two refugee smugglers dump their cargo near the Czech border. Left behind in their truck, however, is an infant that promptly goes up for sale. At an amusement park, Milu?ka is accused of trying to steal a baby carriage - complete...

Special Programs in Focus

• Greece
• 2004
• 137min

Once again Angelopoulos turns to Greek myth as a foundation, and makes it relate to contemporary Greece. An old man retums from a 32-year Soviet exile, a symbol of the country′s leftist past. He is befriended by a young man, a fi...