Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2005
• 129min

Black Silk(1961), a crime drama sometimes labeled Thailand′s first film noir, is arguably his best work. In contrast to his previous two films, Pestonji here takes on much more serious subject matters, most significantly Prae′s re...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 24min

Mr. Kim′s family spends the evening in front of the old television set. For the family who longed to have a new television, one day a great big television that they won arrives. However, the bigger television makes the whole famil...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2005
• 86min

A Simple Event is Sohrab Shahid Saless′ first feature film. He made it with the budget of a short film. Shahid Saless shot every scene in one take and made a feature in two weeks. At that time he was young (27 years-old) and unkno...

Wide Angle

• Spain
• 2005
• 110min

"There existed the possibility of witnessing... a basic chapter in human experience and human life: the period of ruin and decay that comes before the definitive disappearance. The possibility of being able to show what things occ...

Wide Angle

• Czech Republic,Iceland,Estonia
• 2005
• 15min

A public toilet situated in the middle of Prague is the unlikely location for blossoming romance in this short film, when Slavek, a toilet monitor, falls in love with the women’s toilet guard stationed across the street.

PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• Taiwan
• 2005
• 109min

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Lee Man-hee, the Poet of Night

• Korea
• 2005
• 121min

Followed by The Seven Female POWs, with which he was arrested for violating anti-communism act, he made a rather satirical return with this film of ′anti-communistic message where the characters once again are dressed in neat Nort...

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Lee Man-hee, the Poet of Night

• Korea
• 2005
• 90min

Along with Late Autumn, Road to Return is one of the all-time triumphs in the history of Korean cinema. Ji-yoen has lived with her crippled husband for 14 years. Her only relief is delivering her husband′s manuscripts to Newspaper...

New Currents

• Hong Kong
• 2005
• 98min

The world feels suffocating when you are young, due largely to discontent with your own soci or with older generations. Every society has its own problems, and every youth has his her own discontent to deal with. One Summer With Y...

Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 101min

2005 칸영화제 감독 주간 부문 The President′s Last Bang redramatizes assassination of the President Park Oct. 26th, 1979. Me Kim hears about a little dinner party at Gung-jeong dong for the president while he is in the hospital, and Kim goe...