World Cinema

• Greece,Turkey
• 2005
• 105min

"The film revolves around the subjects of emigration and the longing one perceives for one′s native country; it is also about the responsibility of the mass media. It was my aim to shed some light on an extremely violent and tragi...

Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2005
• 104min

Before Born is the new film made by director Ming Zhang who won the New Currents Award at the Pusan International Film Festival for his film Rainclouds over Wushan. Arriving at Bei Hai to find a man named Li Chonggao, Huang Guangl...

Special Programs in Focus

• Malaysia
• 2005
• 90min

The film begins with children going to school early in the morning. follows the everyday poor yet peaceful family with many children. The same old days go by, and just you begin wonder if this is a fictional film or an ethnographi...

PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• China
• 2005
• 81min

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2005
• 12min

When you′re in love, your heart sings. But whether you can is another matter. In this zany new work, audiences can listen in on what Patrick, the Singapore Idol contestant famed for his inaudible rendition of the George Michael hi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2005
• 22min

A girl′s family is disturbed with her brother′s divorce. Her brother and mother look childish and practical when confronting with the problems of raising the nephew dealing with compensation fees. Her father becomes lethargic. She...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 42min

There is a blind masseur who cures by frighteningly pointing out people′s area of pain. His world that is recreated with the senses of his fingertips is a rather peaceful one. That peace is shattered by the woman who seduced him o...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2005
• 115min

2005 Venice Film Festival A beautiful lady is surrounded by four men who swear to give up everything for her because they love her?and she doesn’t choose to remain with any of them. Rather, love may be purity that can only be ...

Critics' Choice

• Germany
• 2005
• 94min

Christoph Hochhausler made an impressive debut at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2003 and at the Kwang-ju International Film Festival in 2005 with his first feature This Very Moment. Low Profile is his second feature, a...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 22min

A man and a woman meet again in a coffee shop after being introduced by a matchmaker. The man brings a present wrapped in a pink cloth and the woman spares her words as if she′s shy. But when they talk about the memories and exper...