Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 18min

The ballerina, Jung, always wears a mask to hide her facial hair. Even though people dissuads her to not go through with the dangerous hair removal surgery, they are still afraid to see her plain face without the mask. While lying...

World Cinema

• Poland,Germany
• 2005
• 120min

The Master is a knife thrower in a travelling circus. One night, drunk, he releases all the circus animals from their cages and gets fired for his work. He decides to follow his dream and head to Paris on his own. Along the way he...

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

• Korea
• 2005
• 104min

Dealing with the desire of advancing one′s social status within the plot of wicked revenge and the structure of horror, this film prides itself being closest to the mainstream. A doctor, Kwang-ho murdered his lover Jin-sook and du...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2005
• 103min

The identity of Thai films is difficult to define in just one word, and after watching a film like My Space, one realizes how true that really is. My Space is about young people who are clueless about what to do in the confusion o...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2005
• 103min

From the animators of Steamboy, Mind Game is a stream of consciousness film, with a surreal succession of sight gags, shifting art styles and animation so alive it looks like it′s being drawn right before your eyes. Mind Game is a...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2005
• 107min

The farm village is abandoned by the young and only old men are left. After the WTO accession, rice prices plummeted. They cannot stop working as farmers even with their entire body aching from working all these years. The Last Ri...

PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• Kazakhstan
• 2005
• 65min

Wide Angle

• France
• 2005
• 84min

Claire Denis has commented on the fact that her films are often referred to as choreographic, and so it is fitting that Mathilde Monnier is the subject of Denis′s latest documentary. A choreographer and director at the Centre Chor...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2005
• 108min

Magdalena stands out with its portrayal of how young souls can be rescued. Malen′s mother is a ′mediator′ between God and people, who makes a living by saying prayers for others. Malen hates her strict, semi-clergywoman mother. On...

World Cinema

• United States,Denmark,Sweden,Nethelands,France,Germany
• 2005
• 139min

In Dogville, Lars Von Trier put Grace, an innocent woman with the best of intentions, into a town where she was stripped of her power and dignity by corrupt human nature. Her power came roaring back when she imposed a judgement an...