Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2004
• 98min

Priest Henri Kremer is an inmate at Dachau. As an outspoken critic of the Reich, Kremer has been arrested and interned. Daily he suffers starvation, over-work, and beatings. He and his fellow priests live in filth, and hope that t...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 18min

A strange air hangs between an old-looking student and the teacher in an empty classroom. The student keeps threatening the teacher, and the frightened teacher delivers an unknown locture Poetry Class puts the events from each ch...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2004
• 85min

Jiang Hu is a new take on Hong Kong Cinema′s celebrated triad genre. Wong Ching-po, a director of independent films, has successfully filmed Jiang Hu by adding modern touches to traditional gangster films. Right after the birth of...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2004
• 19min

Singaporean pop star X′Ho was invited by documentary filmmaker Zai Kuning to be involved in a film about Singapore′s tattoo culture. When X′Ho realized that the film - Living Digitally - would be screened at Singapore′s primary p...

New Current

• Japan
• 2004
• 94min

This film delicately depicts the everyday life of ordinary girls on their difficult journey to adulthood Suzu, who has been living with her boyfriend Furuta, gets fed up with his selfishness and leaves him. She goes to her friend ...

World Cinema

• France
• 2004
• 130min

Louis Trebor lives a reclusive life in the mountains near the French-Swiss border. He has a failing heart, yet feels robust and sensuous. After receiving a much needed heart transplant, Louis heads out on a journey to an unidentif...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2004
• 98min

Tragedy is not over yet. Bahman Ghobadi, who has been continuously talking about the sad history and fate of the Kurds, turns to tell another bitter story of the American attack on Irag. Many people who have been suffering under S...

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2004
• 138min

Hannes Balla is the popular foreman on a construction site. He ensures his crew is paid fairly -and on time. Things run smoothly until the day two newcomers arrive on the site: attractive young - and female - technician Kati Klee ...

Wide Angle

• Norway,Canada
• 2004
• 6min

Smith is searching for his guiding star. For centuries, his expeditions have all been in vain. But one night, just as he′s about to give up, the star emerges in the night sky above his bed. But the festivities are cut Juawhen Smi...

Wide Angle

• Israel
• 2004
• 80min

The West Bank and Gaza Strip have been under Israeli Military authority since 1967. Since then, over three million Palestinians have been living under Israeli occupation. When traveling from one village or city to another to go t...