PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• Philippines
• 2005
• 125min

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 105min

Father had been living an unstable life following after construction sites to work as part-time carpenter. But now, he′s old and there aren′t any sites who′ll hire him. The multi-leveled structure of the construction industry in K...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 135min

[The Treasure Island] Kim sung-ho Mie comes to Korea in search for a keepsake, which her Grandpa left behind when going back to Japan from Jeju Island due to Korean Liberation. She and her friend, Eiko meet a variety of Korean ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2005
• 90min

Still Life, Sohrab Shahid Saless′ second film, chronicles the forced retirement of a poor old man in a remote part of northern Iran who works as a railroad track guard and switchman. The story is told with a more sophisticated sen...

Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 112min

If You Were Me 2 is an omnibus feature film under the theme of human rights. Seaside Flower by Park Kyung-hee describes the everyday life of Eun-hye, who is suffering from Down syndrome. The protagonist of Hey, Man-by Jang-jin is ...

Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 81min

A 17-year-old boy, Dong-kyu, finds a poster offering a reward for reporting stores that use disposable supplies. To get the reward, he takes pictures of a fast-food restaurant and runs away, only to be knocked out by a stone which...

World Cinema

• Iceland,Denmark
• 2005
• 106min

Director Dagur Kari is known for his off beat sense of humor and low-key filmic tone. He′s stated in the past that he prefers making films that are a ′catalogue of ideas′ rather than traditional narratives, and he has carried out ...

Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 90min

A comedy and epilogue about marriage and divorce. On their 2nd anniversary of marriage, Kang A Nam-dae and Jang Young-mi become bored with their routine sex life. They visit a motel to re live their first night ㅁtogether and recor...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2005
• 105min

Made by Taiwan′s young director Cheng Sheng Lin, it was an officially selected PPP project at the 2001 Pusan International Film Festival. The Taiwanese countryside in the 1960s. Charming lady Bao Chai lives with her daughter Xi Li...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2005
• 134min

Sugar Is Not Sweet(1964) is a romantic farce shot in vibrant scope and it returns to Country Hotel′s patchwork style of narrative: there are numerous, largely inconsequential musical interludes, dance sequences and processions, bu...