PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• Japan
• 2005
• 172min

World Cinema

• Lithuania
• 2005
• 110min

With unconventional visual elements and a unique sense of dramatic composition, The Forest of Gods tells the story of the Professor, an artist, who survives two suffocating regimes: the Nazis and the Soviets. We first meet the Pro...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2005
• 19min

This is a story about a girl who loves watching washing machines spin in the middle of the night. One day, a fantastical washing machine appears in the Laundromat. Clothes placed inside this machine don′t always come out clean. In...

Oepn Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2005
• 118min

In 221 BC, the first Emperor of China started building a royal tomb for himself, which was completed 37 years later. Legend has it that, to ensure utmost secrecy, the more than 700,000 forced laborers who worked on the project wer...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2005
• 88min

Cinephiles are aware of the midnight movies, films whose audiences and filmmakers were uninterested in either the Hollywood mainstream or the traditional art film. This doc reviews the phenomenon with the help of some of the key f...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2005
• 125min

SSunday Seoul is a film with three nonsensical episodes. A high school student Do-youn who is the victim of bullying in school is the main character of the first episode. He is ugly and bad at studying. What is worse, he cannot fi...

Opening Film

• Taiwan
• 2005
• 135min

The opening film is HOU Hsiao Hsien’s final version of Three Times, which has been re-edited since its screening at the Cannes this year. Three Times introduces three exquisite tales of love weaved in consummate harmony that uses ...

World Cinema

• Argentina
• 2005
• 93min

In the five years between 1986 and 1991, Argentina boasted a population of over 20,000 Koreans living in the country. Director Bae Youn-suk was on of those 20,000-born in Seoul and relocating to Buenos Aires when he was 12-in 1986...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2005
• 100min

In Chengdu, China, we can see the feast of dance in a bar. We can enjoy a variety of dances Chinese classical dance, ballet, and modern dance-in the red spotlight. There′s no guideline for what to play or what to dance. But there′...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 14min

The severely disabled daughter who begins to have sexual desires expresses her own desire by hurting herself. Unable to see her in pain, her father even tries to buy a guy for her or ask a favor to someone but he′s just treated as...