Wide Angle

• United States
• 2005
• 68min

Grace Lee. It seems that we all know someone called Grace Lee. The name is the quintessential name for Asian-American women, and the director Grace Lee has used the moniker as a springboard into an investigation of gender, ethnici...

Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 89min

2005 칸영화제 경쟁부문 A Tale of Cinema means both a ′story of cinema′ and a ′story before a theatre′. An audience member, Dong-soo, watches a film by his school senior suffering from cancer. In the film, a high school student, Sang-won,...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Palestine,France
• 2005
• 88min

Six years after his debut film, Director Ahmad wants to make a satirical comedy. He decides to go into exile in the West after failing to fulfill his ambition. However, just before leaving, his friend asks him to audition actors f...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2005
• 84min

A film that shows how an aimless war destroys individuals′ lives, portrays the life of a woman named Gilaneh. In the first half, the film follows the life-threatening journey of a mother and a daughter to Tehran in search of their...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 115min

In 1993 for the first time as a chief of the states President Mitterrand visited Korea. On this visit Mitterrand promised that he would return the 397 volumes of the Oe-Kyujanggak Archives (royal protocols of Chosun Dynasty in Kor...

World Cinema

• Estonia
• 2005
• 112min

Alice is a costume designer in her mid-twenties. She returns to her Tallinn home after vacationing Portugal to discover the television studio she worked for has gone bankrupt. She and her two friends and former colleagues Ada and ...

Wide Angle

• Ukraina
• 2005
• 10min

This short film is based on a traditional lullaby and is about childhood visions-be they good, bad or ugly. In Wayfarers, dreams don′t come true, and once childhood is gone it′s gone forever. Igor Strembitskyy, who grew up in a vi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2005
• 99min

Nine Emotions is growth story of thirteen-year-old girl and at the same time, it is a story of transgender who wants to find his/her sexual orientation. The daughter of a wealthy Hindu family, Swetha one day witnesses shocking sig...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2005
• 98min

Seventeen-year-old Navid Raisi leaves his small village to look for a job as a teacher of Persian Literature. Put on a waiting list for the next available fob at the Education Center, Navid finds work as a daily worker. One night,...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2005
• 100min

A superstar reporter at a Nanjing newspaper, Gu seems to have it all, but his whole universe starts falling apart after Yang begs Gu for public kudos in the newspaper for saving a university coed from rape. This is Yang’s despera...