A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2005
• 106min

Fix exemplifies the fact that what it takes to make a good sci-fi film is not a huge budget, but a wildly creative imagination. Nanase is a slacker living at his girlfriend′s place and wasting his time.One day he receives a strang...

Special Programs in Focus

• UK,The Nethelands
• 2005
• 115min

A Zed & Two Noughts in the simplest of terms is about people desperately searching for meaning in life and death. Oliver and Oswald Deuce are twins. Both are zoologists, both work at the same zoo, and both lose their wives in a fr...

PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• Korea
• 2005
• 90min

Wide Angle

• France,Korea
• 2005
• 62min

In his lengthy career as a critic, writer and documentarian Hubert Niogret has expounded on Asian and European cinema extensively. He now turns his camera toward Korea. Korean cinema is one of the current darlings on the internati...

Special Programs in Focus

• UK
• 2005
• 100min

The events of 9/11 are burned into the collective consciousness as acts perpetuated by monsters: by someone less than human. Quite to the contrary, the mass murderers involved in the events at the World Trade Center and the Pentag...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2005
• 129min

Sunflower tells a family history that unfolds in Beijing, a city passing through a Chinese vicissitude; it′s a modem history by way of reminiscences. While a father, a painter, had to leave during the Cultural Revolution, a mother...

Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 119min

During the 19th century Chosun dynasty, a remote island of Donghwa-do has seen growth based on its paper manufacturing. A transport ship carrying paper to the palace burns into ashes An investigator Won-kyu is sent to the scene, a...

Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 111min

In the late Chosun dynasty, counterfeits were circulating around. Detective Ahn of West Security Station and a passionate newcomer, Nam-sun try to trace the source of the counterfeiting. They chase the Secretary of National Securi...

Critics' Choice

• China
• 2005
• 78min

So Much Rice is the debut feature by the former novelist, Hongqi Li. The film entertains by bringing out strange comical mood and irony from the main characters′ lives which don′t seem to offer much surprises. Although it starts o...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 19min

An audition for children begins in subtle tension. It starts off without knowing what the audition is for. But through the process we become aware that it is for adoption. Absurdity is presented through the images of children who ...