A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mongolia,Germany
• 2005
• 90min

The Cave of the Yellow Dog is a story about a Mongolian family and their dog. Nonsal, the six-year-old daughter, brings home a dog she finds in a cave. But her father says she can′t keep the dog since they don′t know where the dog...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2005
• 17min

This is a world in which protagonists of both animated and live action segments proceed in their respective journeys. Characters continue their incoherent monologues, monsters appear suddenly, and in a world that constantly lacks ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,France
• 2005
• 93min

2002 PPP Sixteen-year-old Xiao Yun lives in a small riverside town in China in 1983, where her deeply felt emotions can’t be articulated in the repressive social climate of her home and small town. When her high school teacher...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2005
• 78min

A man longs to have his own child. The first child died at birth, and the second child did not only de at birth, but also made his mother die, too. A devout believer of God, he keeps asking God why he has to go through such traged...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 38min

Following the day spent by the grandson and the daughter, who took her elderly father to the hospital, the film introduces a grandfather who′s facing death, the little grandson who′s starting his life, and the daughter who′s hurt ...

World Cinema

• Romania
• 2005
• 153min

Mr. Lazarescu lives alone, and one night he falls ill. After arriving at the hospital by ambulance, a bizarre tragic, and comic odyssey unfolds as he sees doctor after doctor to diagnose his condition. In what director Cristi Puiu...

Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 120min

Ji-seok rents a room at Sunny′s, a Korean-American woman running a massage parlor in LA. In this city, Ji-seok′s former girl friend Young-shin works as a radio DJ of ′Love Talk. Ji-seok and Young-shin happen to meet again and shar...

World Cinema

• France
• 2005
• 129min

"Don′t you ever think about the day when things will start to go wrong?" Lemming is about that day. Alain and his wife Benedicte relocate for work. They are the perfect modern couple. On the evening they invite Alain′s new boss an...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2005
• 107min

Rip Tom plays Alan, a legendary music producer living in Memphis-a big fish in a small pond. He lives with his beautiful Russian wife, Laura, and their son. When Michael, his adult son, comes home, tensions stemming from a jealous...

Special Programs in Focus

• UK
• 2005
• 98min

A violent act of savagery is at the heart of this film. In the town of Blighty, three young men, Robert, Joe and Ben, carry out their days in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq-the film′s dominant motif-in a haze of boredom and m...