Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2005
• 89min

Written by a Ming-era writer, Wu Cheng-en, Journey to the West, is based on myths surrounding the 17-year joumey to India of a Chinese monk, Xuan Zang, to get the Buddhist Sutra during the Great Tang era. One of the six greatest n...

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

• Korea
• 2005
• 95min

A breathtaking pursuit breaks out to get the Tibetan Buddhist statue inscribed with the list of names of the Resistance Army. After 2 years of seclusion, Lee made a graceful return with this film set in the Manchurian landscape wh...

Wide Angle

• Brazil,Switzerland,Finland
• 2005
• 90min

Choro is Brazil′s own urban music. It is a blend of various forms-European, indigenous that has evolved over the course of 130 years. Popular until the 1920s, and the de facto mother of both samba and bossa nova, it faded into the...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2005
• 108min

Michuko is the twelve-year-old only child of a principal father and a beautiful mother. She believes that she was bom at guillotine for no reason. After watching her parents having sex, she is raped by her father, and she becomes ...

PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• Iran
• 2005
• 100min

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 2005
• 82min

Advertising was once a tool that was used to sell products we need. In the globalized world, it has become a tool for selling us a lifestyle we should aspire to. When western consumer items are appropriated into India’s culture, a...

World Cinema

• Austria
• 2005
• 100min

In the modern climate of distrust, it could be said that we all have a denunciating side. How far we are able to trust at all is the question the core of Sleeper. Johannes is a scientist working in Munich alongside Farid. Their op...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2005
• 148min

For the director, Country Hotel was an experiment in almost every respect. Simply shooting on 35mm was challenge enough, so everything needed to be kept as simple as possible. Country Hotel has perhaps the most relaxed approach to...

Critics' Choice

• Brazil
• 2005
• 99min

Johann is a typical German with blonde hair and blue eyes. Escaping from World War II, he flies to South America and now sells aspirin in the remote parts of Brazil. When he gets to a village, he sets up the screen and plays aspir...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2005
• 99min

Glittering with colorful expressions and cheerfulness, Citizn Dog tells a love story between a young man named Pod who comes to Bangkok from the countryside, and a genuine but single-minded woman named Jin. Pod is a delicate and a...