A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2005
• 90min

Be With Me is a tapestry of three stories woven around the themes of love, hope and destiny. In Meant to Be, an ageing shopkeeper grapples with loneliness, until one day, he chances upon an autobiography which changes his life. ...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2005
• 11min

This film is about the relationship between one man and his eight-year-old Yamaha scooter, named DNU-747. Set in Taiwan, which has the highest density of motorbikes in the world, this films starts with the distinctive motorbike e...

Closing Film

• Korea
• 2005

The closing film is Korean director HWANG Byung-kuk’s feature directorial debut Wedding Campaign. This heart-warming humandrama with resonance is more of an earnest anthem dedicated to those in the periphery who live their lives t...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2005
• 92min

Leila is an adventurous and independent young woman who has never experienced love. And she wouldn′t have it any other way. She′s happy with her porn and casual, quasi-anonymous sexual trysts. She′s occupied by her cousin Rachel′s...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2005
• 97min

A nine-year-old boy living on an abandoned riverboat is the setting for this quasi-coming of age story. The boy leads a solitary life until he meets a girl who lives in a house nearby. She provides his first taste of affection and...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2005
• 102min

Fishing Luck is similar to the usual romance films but, at the same time, it holds a mood of romance that can′t be seen easily. The film is set on Lanyu Orchid Island where the beautiful scenery is overwhelmingly recreated, giving...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2005
• 100min

Ballad of the Man is the title of Teguh Karya′s first film, produced in 1970. By observing and contemplating the main message at the film′s core, it is revealed as a reflection of Karya′s individuality. Amallo feels like a strange...

World Cinema

• France
• 2005
• 107min

James Toback′s 1978 cult favorite Fingers provides the basis for Audiard′s latest film. In that film, Harvey Keitel played a man trapped in the world of the New York mafia who had aspirations to being a concert pianist. Audiard an...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2005
• 90min

The 5th film of Ying Ning, who has persistently criticized Chinese society in her Beijing Trilogy which includes / Love Beijing presented at PIFF 2003, Perpetual Motion is a poignant criticism of past Chinese society from the pers...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2005
• 118min

Marco Tullio Giordana achieved phenomenal critical success with his generational epic The Best of Youth, which was set against some of the most turbulent years in Italy′s history. Leaving the past behind, Giordana has set his new ...