World Cinema

• SouthAfrica,UK,Italy
• 2005
• 121min

"This was a story that had to be told, a story that would take cinema-goers around the world inside and event that, to all our great shame, we knew nothing about. But more than that, it would allow audiences to join in the... cour...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2005
• 15min

Inspired by the recent SARS epidemic, Respire is set in a fictional world transformed by a deadly, airborne virus in which people are required by law to wear masks at all times. A young girl who knows her time is short decides to ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2005
• 97min

Two men, Kimata and Sagawa, rob a bank shile dressed in tight-fitting Santa outfits. But when they run out of the bank, the robbers discover their gataway car has been towed away. They decide to stash the loot in a coin-operate...

Critics' Choice

• Russia
• 2005
• 97min

Mars is a small village, named after Karl Marx. It was once a center of massive toy production, but not any more. The village people are now mostly unemployed. It is the only hope for them to sell toys to passengers on the trains ...

Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 90min

2005 Opening Feature of Un Certain Regard at Cannes An old man and a girl have lived for 10 years on an old boat before a remote island. The old man makes a living by giving rides to anglers with the girl′s help. He protects the ...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2005

Based on an article about director-wannabe named Hussain Sabzian, who was arrested for falsely representing himself as Kiarostami in real life, the director made a feature titled Close-up. The question still remained unanswered as...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 95min

Through the daily lives of ′Nottle′ members, who perform theater art while living as a collective, the film presents the lifestyle they hope to pursue. Also, by relating to and harmonizing with the local people, they create a coll...

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Lee Man-hee, the Poet of Night

• Korea
• 2005
• 76 min

Huh-wook and Ji-yeon are a destitute couple who meets on every holiday, having nothing to do but spending time at an empty park, even without money for a cup of coffee. She informs him d her pregnancy, and he wonders off the city ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,China,France
• 2005
• 114min

Shiang-Chyi just returned to Taipei from overseas. She meets Hsiao-Kang by chance. She once bought a watch from him when he was a street peddler. But now, Hsiao-Kang works as a porn actor. She isn′t aware about that. The Wayward C...

World Cinema

• France,Austria,Germany,Italy
• 2005
• 99min

Michael Haneke′s latest is an exciting thriller while simultaneously being a timely, biting metaphor on first and third world relations. Georges is a successful middle-class husband and father, who hosts a television program on ar...