A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kyrgyzstan,Germany
• 2005
• 85min

In the time of inflation and poverty, sheep start to disappear in a small village in Kyrgyzstan. Centered around the investigation into the sheep thefts, the film tells the hardly trivial stories of some village people, such as an...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2005
• 90min

The film is set in a traditional market in Jakarta, which is flooded by goods and people but, in fact, dominated by a feeling of loss. The three siblings, Seno, Bimo, and Asih, have lost their mother, while Rindu has been adopted ...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2005
• 21min

Hod-Hod witnesses some birds fighting over some food. Upon hearing a tune, which calls them towards light, a group of birds set out in a certain direction, with Hod-Hod following them. For this journey, the birds and Hod-Hod will ...

Special Programs in Focus

• UK
• 2005
• 86min

Mona is a fair haired, plain and plainspoken young woman. While she lounges in a field outside of her Yorkshire town home, she has an encounter with Tamsin. Tamsin is dark and exotic, attends a boarding school and meets Mona while...

World Cinema

• France
• 2005
• 103min

"It is the triumph of the autodidacts, the outsiders; a street singer, a robber with a car, a bar waitress... and a charismatic street peddler... My heart is always balanced between comedy and tragedy. It is this mixture which is ...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2005
• 70min

A new feature film of Director Kihachiro Kawamoto, who has been working on marionette performances and animations for almost 40 years. The Book of the Dead is a love story about a ghost in Japan′s 8th century capital, Nara, and is...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2005
• 60min

Why do we take a picture? Ever since the invention of the camera, we have taken pictures of ourselves and kept the photos. In City of Photos we are introduced to photo studios in small villages, and we are forced to ask what the s...

World Cinema

• Norway
• 2005
• 93min

Henry Chinaski, novelist Charles Bukowski′s alter ego, has a few simple pleasures in life: drinking, betting on horses, chasing easy, anonymous women, and writing. This episodic adaptation of Bukowski′s book of the same title is a...

Special Programs in Focus

• UK
• 2005
• 91min

The debut film by Amma Asante is an unblinking, disturbing and powerful look at contemporary race relations and hate crime. Set in the working class area of South Wales, the film begins with a vicious attack on a local man of Musl...

Special Programs in Focus

• Singapore
• 2005
• 115min

Ali is a single mother living with her 7-year-old blind son. Having discovered how they live in the rough on the streets, the authorities take them to Ali′s estranged father and make them live with him. What unspeakable story lies...