Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2005
• 105min

As descendants of Genghis Khan and the symbol of nomad culture who once ruled a great empire, how are these Mongolians living now? In a subdued voice, Season of the Horse witnesses the life of these Mongolian nomads who have no ch...

New Currents

• Korea,China
• 2005
• 109min

There are minorities in every society, and those minorities need an object to rely on, be it power or a lover. Soon-hee, a single mother estranged from her husband, is a minority in multiple senses. She is a Korean-Chinese living ...

World Cinema

• Hungary
• 2005
• 127min

"It is rather ironic that while his name is well know and respected around the world, in his native Hungary there is still some remaining controversy that surrounds his name, especially as his person and events of 1956 often becom...

Special Programs in Focus

• Mexico
• 2005
• 120min

Martin lives amid the dust of the Mexican desert. His community is a group of homesteaders so removed from the rest of society that their settlement doesn′t even have a name. This is a place that is economically and spiritually im...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2005
• 102min

In Behind the Mosquito Net, Teguh Karya creates the story of tragic wedding. The main character taxi driver, frustrated by his parents-in-law constantly belittling him for his low salary and lack of house-even rented one. The taxi...

Special Programs in Focus

• United States
• 2005
• 76min

What could be the worst possible place for a boy who′s just hit puberty to work? What could be the worst possible environment for a boy whose world is suddenly, confusingly sexually charged? Michael Kang′s answer to these question...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 25min

While going to his big brother′s house for a family gathering, the youngest one happens to meet with his father. To the son who silently follows him, the father brags about his trip to the South Pole while eating raw cuttlefish at...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2005
• 102min

Nomadic families herd horses and lambs in deserted plains. What do the kids of a nomad family do to play? Mongolian Ping Pong is an answer to the question and maybe a little bit more. Bilgee finds a ping pong ball in the river. He...

World Cinema

• Slovenia
• 2005
• 103min

Director Jan Cvitkovi?s debut film, Bread and Milk, was a sparse, hard film about an alcoholic who gets out of rehab, just to fall back into the same tragic pattern. Shot in black and white and bearing a fatalistic tone, the film ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India,Canada
• 2005
• 118min

The latest film by Deepa Mehta is a story of the repressed life of Indian widows. 1938, India. The just-married eight-year-old girl Chuyia becomes a widow after her husband passes away. Under Hindu doctrine that believes a wife is...