Wide Angle

• China
• 2005
• 29min

Zonbo Media brought together 8 emerging Chinese directors of different styles to make a series of 8 short films by 35mm film, with each film running at about 3 minutes. The films of Focus: This Moment are Out in There directed by ...

World Cinema

• France
• 2005
• 100min

"For me, it′s more about happiness. All forms of happiness: the intoxication of victory, money, the most intense orgasm. But for you, it′s about whatever you want it to be"-Antony Cordier Mickael is a teenaged boy from a working-c...

Special Programs in Focus

• UK,Nethelands
• 2005
• 118min

Drowning by Numbers is either audacious or pretentious, depending on how much you like games. Greenaway returns to the subjects of sex and death, weaving a tale of hidden jealousies, greed and revenge, filled with sardonic, black ...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2005
• 103min

Randall Miller′s award-winning short film was the basis for this feature length film. A bakery worker, Frank, still reeling from the death of his wife, goes to the aid of a man trapped in a car wreck. The man, Steve, was rushing t...

World Cinema

• Denmark
• 2005
• 88min

Melodrama is a format largely associated with Douglas Sirk-style histrionics. Henrik Ruben Genz strips away the heart-wrenching dramatics and crafts a subtle, understated story about two wounded people overcoming apathy and appreh...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2005
• 79min

"Whenever I travel, I would eat at Chinese restaurants and listen to their owner′s fascinating life stories. For twenty-five years, I have always wanted to make a film about the Chinese diaspora through the life and times of it...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 30min

Having begun to distrust his wife, Young-min ultimately installs a hidden camera and witnesses the scene of his wife′s infidelity. He goes to Kyungju to meet with the Buddhist monk who one day gave him the Mask of Chuyong (represe...

PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• Mongolia
• 2005
• 150min

World Cinema

• Iceland
• 2005
• 120min

Baltasar Kormakur makes the move into large-scale major studio filmmaking with this thriller. A con artist with a multi-million dollar life insurance policy dies under mysterious circumstances in a small town, and as usual an insu...

World Cinema

• Palestine,Germany,Nethelands,France
• 2005
• 90min

"I am not an Israeli-Arab... I am a Palestinian. I have an Israeli passport but it does not make me an Israeli. As long as Israel continues to be a Jewish state, I cannot be an Israeli as I am not a Jew. I am not against the Jews ...