Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 73min

This documentary road film delves into Asia through dynamic films and footage from several countries in Asia. The potential energy of Asian Cinema is confirmed, and comprises Iran, India, Thailand, New Zealand, Middle Asia, China,...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2005
• 120min

Buddhadeb Dasgupta makes the most contemporary films in the film industry in India. His new film, Memories in the Miat is about the loneliness of today′s Hindus in the city. After his wife left him with his son, thinking that he ...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2005
• 108min

Dear Pyongyang is an account of the reconstruction of the bonds of affection between a father and daughter that had been sundered by the father′s political choices. Director Yang Yong-hi is a second-generation ethnic Korean born a...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 110min

Lee Hee-Ja has launched a lawsuit against the Yasukuni Shrine and the Japanese government in order to withdraw the enshrinement of her father. Furukawa is the Japanese man who organized the support committee for the lawsuit regard...

Special Programs in Focus

• Peru
• 2005
• 130min

"The script looks to openly address the anguish contained within the sensation of uneasiness that exists when something that we aspire to is taken away; the sensation felt when things we yeamed for escape us, are unreachable. It a...

Wide Angle

• Sweden
• 2005
• 18min

Two men are trying to make contact with another civilization. So they push a barrel laden with communication equipment to ever-higher ground in a vain attempt to get better reception, convinced that this is the reason for their fa...

PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• Kyrgyzstan,France
• 2005
• 81min

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2005
• 102min

Pestonji shot another feature, Dark Heaven(1958), for Kachara Film, a film company owned by a close friend. Keen to progress his films and film industry of Thailand, he shot in colour and expanded the use of songs in the narrative...

World Cinema

• Finland
• 2005
• 126min

Leo Tolstoy′s Faux Billet is the basis for this tale of circumstance, destiny and consequence, and how our lives unknowingly intermingle and impact each other-sometimes with tragic results. Beginning with a counterfeit 500-euro no...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 80min

-Recipient of Youngsan Fund - Invited to Wide Angle section 10th Pusan International Film Festival. - Acclaimed as the Best Asian Feature Documentary Film at 2006 Syracus International Film & Video Festival. A personal docume...