Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 22min

Friendship between friends who each follow after their own dreams in order to escape the harsh reality is depicted here. Because of a groundless dream, the friend′s saxophone is stolen and she struggles to look for the guy who ran...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 38min

The daughter who′s in high school is annoyed with having her period while her mother fears her menstrual cycle may have stopped too early. Having fallen in love with a woman who had her uterus removed, the father suffers the menst...

World Cinema

• Israel
• 2005
• 104min

“Romanians and Chinese workers build our houses. Africans clean them, Thai workers cultivate our fields. Women mainly from the Ukraine and Moldavia provide us with paid sex and caregivers from the Philippines take care of the peop...

Wide Angle

• Switzerland
• 2005
• 97min

Gendun Choephel was one of the earliest of the 20th century′s great rebels. He was an outspoken critic of the establishment and authority, a free spirit and since the time he was active in the 1930s has become a symbol of long sou...

New Currents

• China
• 2005
• 102min

Silent Holy Stones proves how thin the line between documentary and drama is. The film does not tell story but portrays the everyday life of boy lama and the people around him Tibet. There is no dramatic event taking place. The fi...

Wide Angle

• Thailand
• 2005
• 80min

Set in a solitary island resort in Thailand, 3 Friends is full of beautiful blue sky and dazzling emerald sea. Three gorgeous girls, close friends, are enjoying a weeklong vacation on the white sand beach, in the shade of palm tre...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Tajikistan,Iran,France
• 2005
• 105min

It is stunning film fully showing Mohsen Makhmalbaf′s pathos. Who else can create the lyrical images and convey the philosophical introspection as ingeniously as Makhmabaf accomplishes in the film? Jan, an instructor at a dance sc...

PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• Iran
• 2005
• 100min

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2005
• 17min

A man refuses to get off his sofa. Every since a traumatic ′accident six months ago, this would-be writer has cut himself off from the outside world. His friends and loved ones find their efforts to ′cure′ him constantly rebuffed....

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2005
• 117min

The White Rose group′s anti-Nazi activities earned them a great deal of attention from the Gestapo, as well as a place in German history; Sophie Scholl is an icon German resistance. In 1943, Sophie was arrested and taken to Rob...