A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2004
• 161min

Black Friday is based on the terrible terror attacks on Bombay in 1999 - dubbed the Indian 9/11. The tragic religious fight between Muslims and Hindus left 300 dead and 800 wounded. Director Anurag Kashyap takes a realistic and c...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2004
• 105min

Can haiku, a form of Japanese poetry, be animated? The answer is yes. It has been achieved. Winter Days, Matsuo Basho′s famous haiku collection, has now been tumed into an animated film through collaboration between 35 leading an...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 10min

An old lady shows mercy to a homeless-looking young man. Like any other old woman iMing alone, she brings him to her home and offers him a meal. There are only blank looks and silence between them. One day, he is brutally beaten b...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 25min

A family displaced from its hometown due to dam construction gathers to build grandfather′s 10th anniversary tombstone. No sooner does the family hear that the youngest son can′t come than it gets into a fight. The Swaying Boat po...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2004
• 109min

The Wedding unfolds on the night of a wedding reception. Wojnar is throwing a party for his daughter Kate. His gift to the newlyweds is a new Audi. All the parts are in place: the car, the guests, the band. But events take one unl...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 74min

In the early 90′s, when the Korean economy was at its peak, the Korean government allowed the entry of workers from abroad. Many of them are now living illegal existences in Korea. In order to solve this "social problem" , the gov...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2004
• 98min

16-year-old Ipen sends money to her family from her job of babysitting 9-year-old Dajun, who has a huge hole in the heart caused by his parents divorce. While Dajun hates seeing the fat Ipen instead of the mother he misses in his...

World Cinema

• Turkey,France,Greece,Germany
• 2004
• 87min

In the port town of Trebolu, 65-year old Ayshe Ilives with her dying sister Selma, a day the fiercely devoted Ayshe dreads. Nonetheless, she befriends the neighbor′s son, Mehmet, telling him fantastic stories, making both happy f...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2004
• 100min

Middle-aged widower Xu Daquin never felt that he lived a day for himself. Since his youth, he always wanted to go to Yunnam, near Tibet. He imagines what his life would have been like bad he lived there. This imaginative "what if"...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2004
• 105min

Director Marco Bellocchio has crafted a completely contemporary film based on a true story that unfolded over twenty years ago. In 1978, Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped by a terrorist group. It was a crime that shoc...