A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam,United States
• 2005
• 134min

Long, who decides to take part in the reestablishment of his ruined country after the Vietnam War, is imprisoned for reeducation on the charge that he is tainted by capitalism. He endures a brutal life. Meanwhile, his mother, wife...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2005
• 84min

Jump! Boys follows a group of naughty little boys, mostly in the first or second grade. They are from different families and the have different characteristics. But, they have one thing in common. Unlike other, typical elementary ...

New Currents

• India,France
• 2005
• 92min

The film begins with Sarit′da, a man in his 30s, who decides that he has had enough of urban terrorism′, namely urban noise. His over-sensitivity to the noises of the city makes the audience rethink how psychologically damaging ur...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2005
• 84min

Joni is a 22-year-old film deliverer in Jakarta. In the entire film making process from writing the script, funding, filming, editing, to the screening of films, he believes that film delivery is the hidden, but most important par...

Wide Angle

• Japan,Taiwan
• 2005
• 90min

This film follows the pain of ordinary people living on the social fringe and their historical background. Japanese director Shuhei Fujita completed it in Taiwan over a span of 4 years based on autobiographical experiences. The yo...

World Cinema

• Sweden,UK,Denmark
• 2005
• 103min

Director Josef Fares is shifting tone, style and subject with Zozo. His first feature Jalla! Jallal and the follow-up, Kops, were representative Scandinavian comedies, with absurd misunderstandings and clashes of culture and gener...

Critics' Choice

• Korea
• 2005
• 175min

A film that runs up to 175 minutes. Having such a running time for a debut feature is in itself fresh. The director, Shin Yeon-shick, is a totally unknown director. Video production work is his whole filmography and he completed t...

Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 121min

2005 The Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, 2005 FIPRESCI Tae-shik, once a silver medalist in the Asian Games, now gets paid to be beaten up in place of others in the middle of the street. With his back up against the wall and nothi...

PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• Japan
• 2005
• 144min

World Cinema

• Israel
• 2005
• 90min

Two draftees into mandatory military service in Jerusalem forge a cautious friendship as they patrol the streets. Smadar and Mirit are 18-year-old women with wildly differing perspectives on their service. Smadar, vivacious, flip,...