World Cinema

• Germany
• 2005
• 85min

Ghosts are all around us. According to director/co-writer Christian Petzold, they are represented by the homeless, the jobless, the disconnected, living alongside us-in a sort of visible parallel world. The drive to reconnect with...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2005
• 110min

Dreaming Light about the lives people who make eyeglass lenses and how they secretly realize another kind feeling life that they didn′t know about. The protagonists of the film, Ikea, Yoko, and Yojiro work together at Ikea′s eyegl...

Critics' Choice

• Japan
• 2005
• 93min

A low budget road movie. Having hit a yakuza′s lover by mistake, Yoshiki robs the apartment of Yumeno, his latest acquaintance, so that he can prepare the reparation money. Unfortunately, he ends up killing her parents. Yoshiki es...

Wide Angle

• Australia
• 2005
• 52min

Rabbinical student Yuri returns to Sydney when his father suddenly dies. With little else to do he starts driving a taxi after the week of mourning has passed. Almost immediately he meets Sarita - a woman Yuri believes is the most...

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2005
• 16min

An unfortunate event takes an unsuspecting street food vendor to a local auto-mechanic shop. His encounter with the mechanic leads to a series of money-making contests between the two until an unlikely customer determines the outc...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 21min

The film′s new and original take on the form is impressive by quoting in proliferation the extremely personal motifs of love and art such as Jang-hoon who comes to Busan still has feelings but Jun-ah doesn′t have the battery, the ...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2005
• 6min

Good-bye Song opens with photographs. Children at a nursery school energetically shout out the name of things they like-from giraffes to dragonflies. Animated renditions of the children′s favorite things are added to live action f...

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 2005
• 90min

Composer Alexander Hacke and Fatih Akin-who collaborated on Akin′s Head-On-travel the length and breadth of Istanbul in an attempt to document the diversity of modern Turkish music. From their home base of the Buyuk Londra Oteli, ...

Wide Angle

• Finland
• 2005
• 6min

illegal immigrants and migrant workers are a fact of life in almost every country in the world, and well over a quarter million Koreans live abroad illegally in countries like Germany. But only one German resides illegally in Sout...

New Currents

• Taiwan,Hong Kong
• 2005
• 90min

Children grow up believing in fairy tales. Is it that easily achieved and forever kept? How come the witch always has to die so pathetically? For little girl, Dodo who can′t walk, fairy tales are always full of mystery. When her f...