A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mani RATNAM
• India
• 2004
• 169min

PIFF almost regularly invites this director. Mani Ratnam is again invited to PIFF with his praise song of youth. The youth are full of a passion, wanting to change society. Youth can be reckless, at times, when it comes to love. Y...

Wide Angle

• Kazuhiro GOSHIMA
• Japan
• 2004
• 11min

The director uses similar freeze-frame images in dissolves to convev a sense of movement and three-dimensionality far greater than what is found in standard animation. The abbreviated information presented lies somewhere in betwe...

Wide Angle

• Stefan ARSENIJEVIĆ
• Slovenia
• 2003
• 13m

From 1992 to 1995, during the siege of Sarajevo, the only connection to the outside world for the ordinary people was through a secret passage hidden beneath a runaway at the Sarajevo airport. People called it The Tunnel, but it l...

Wide Angle

• Hidenori SUGIMORI
• Japan
• 2003
• 10min

Metropolitan Tokyo. A boy on rollerblades with a bow and arrows enjoys shooting the crows that haunt the city landscape, until one day he meets a mysterious woman in black...

New Currents

• Royston TAN
• Singapore
• 2003
• 93min

World Cinema

• Richard JOBSON
• Scotland,UK
• 2003
• 102m

16 Years of Alcohol is a moving and powerful look at three stages of a man′s life as he searches for hope and redemption. Frankie Mac′s starts out with a dominant father and an alcohol-drenched childhood. Beyond that are his teena...

Special Programs in Focus

• François GIRARD
• Canada,Portugal,Netherlands,Finland
• 2003
• 93m

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Toshiaki TOYODA
• Japan
• 2003
• 120min

Nine prisoners, most of who are sentenced to hard time for murder, escape from prison to look for a treasure rumored to be hidden at an elementary school at Mount Fuji. In a car rented from a friend, they head for the school, stea...

Korean Panorama

• IM Sang-Soo
• Korea
• 2003
• 104m

This film shows the disintegration of a lawyer′s family in a comical and yet shocking way. Although the family appears to be happy, the husband who is a competent lawyer with high moral attitude, and his wife and mother are all in...

Special Programs in Focus

• Razi MOHEBI
• Afghanistan
• 2003
• 29min

When the Taliban forbid the flying of kites in Afghanistan, the young boys in Davood′s village are terribly disappointed. With the help of a Talib′s son they a clever way around this decree.