World Cinema

• Turkey,Greece
• 2005
• 98min

Dysfunctional, lost people trapped in repeating cycles that they′d like to escape populate Angel′s Fall. Zeynep works as a hotel housekeeper. Her days are filled with tedious work, shared by her only friend, Mustafa. Mustafa has a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2005
• 90min

An old abandoned ship becomes a functioning and ingeniously self-sufficient community for several poor familiesfrom the southern coasts of Iran. Captain Nemat, garbed in a white turban and long robes, runs a tight ship and is a b...

PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• Taiwan
• 2005
• 106min

New Currents

• Iran,Japan
• 2005
• 81min

A feature debut of Mohammad Ahmadi, the director of the documentary Captive, Waiting presented at PIFF 2002. Written by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film deals with the growing-up story of an innocent 25-year-old cleaner, who comes to g...

World Cinema

• Germany,Latvia
• 2005
• 90min

Fred Kelemen′s latest film continues on the aesthetic and thematic roads he has explored in his past films. Displaced and dispossessed characters inhabit dark, dank urban spaces. Tortured, miserable people with little chance at re...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2005
• 105min

As a 20-year-old college student who just entered adulthood, Gadi spends each day in gloom. Due to the memory of having been betrayed by her friend and boyfriend, she lives life without much will. She becomes a loner who doesn′t o...

Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 112min

At the age of nineteen, Geum-ja is arrested and charged for the abduction and murder of a Being so young and pretty, Geum-ja and her horrific crime becomes the obsession of the m Thirteen years have passed and during that time, ha...

Special Programs in Focus

• Vietnam,Germany,Australia
• 2005
• 114min

Bride of Silence is an interesting film that depicts a fascinating legendary folk tale-like story while unexpectedly creating a defiant image of women. 200 years ago in Vietnam, Tuy, on his deathbed, tells his 17-year-old son Hien...

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2005
• 9min

Kara is a little girl living in an isolated place. Her father disappears one day after Ronald kills Kara′s mother. A journalist gets involved, and invasion into Kara′s life prompts her to look for Ronald and try and receive the ul...

World Cinema

• Republic of South Africa
• 2005
• 120min

Bizet′s 19th century libretto Carmen endures because of its timeless, and endlessly adaptable, themes of love, lust, revenge, violence, and power. The story of Carmen is transplanted to a modem South African township, a dynamic sp...