World Cinema

• Chile,Spain,Venezuela
• 2004
• 90min

Kathy lives in a town on the Chilean coast with her mother and brother. Notable about her life is the absence of her father, who is in prison doing time for robbery. Also noteworthy to Kathy are the daily struggles and difficultie...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2004
• 124min

Butterfly is a love story. To be exact, a homosexual love story of a woman who has to deal with her dual sexual orientation. Flavia, a 30 year-old high school teacher, leads quite an ordinary life at home and at school. One day wh...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 35min

This essay film resembles groups of visual language which describe the community, the culture and the family of the director’s childhood. The filmmaker created the film to look like the face of his nation and his family.

World Cinema

• Iceland
• 2004
• 87min

Jed and Chloe are in their early twenties, in love - and mentally handicapped. When Jed accidentally causes the death of Chloe′s cat, which she loves almost as much as Jed, Chloe retreats into silence and loses her will to live. C...

Open Cinema

• Germany,Mongolia
• 2004
• 90min

A warm and touching story from the Gobi Desert. Directors Byambasuren Davaa and Luioi Ealormi wanted to shoot a real-life story of Mongolian nomads and their camels. Their film is a real-life ston more dramatic than any other fict...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 15min

A fully attired girl entertains a male customer. The customer can have her body, but he can′t let her set the dinner table for him. Her husband stays in back room in silence. When the life-supporting and love-making customer start...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,France
• 2004
• 95min

Life is, sometimes, like a bondage you can never be free of. This is why many myths and legends have commonly used ′original sin′ and ′cruel fate of life′ as their main theme. In that sense, Guansheng′s destiny depicted in Day and...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2004
• 86min

In the war zone of Kurdistan bordering Iran, on one side, a group of soldiers are searching for landmines. On the other side, a girl is shepherding her sheep. The two that never seem to get alona are always on full alert. They liv...

Wide Angle

• France,Japan
• 2004
• 53min

In the last ten years, Japan has felt at a loss over the recession that has stopped its growth and shaken its pride. Overwhelmed by a series of crimes and failures, the country is ageing. Strangely, a new generation of Japanese fi...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2004
• 82min

32-year old Manon goes on a date with her co-worker. A couple of days later, she′s at a car wash when she sees a man with tattoo-covered arms. She rushes home, terrified and distraught, and tightly locks her door. Manon recalls a ...