Wide Angle

• China
• 2004
• 110min

For thousands of years, two roads have connected China and Europe, One is the well-known Silk Road on the northern continent, and the other is the ′Tea-Horse Road′ leading from China and southern Tibet to Europe.From the ancient t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 21min

The capital of indonesia is Jakarta, and it is the third most polluted city in the world - as well as one of the most populous. As such, the city is abligated to provide enough public transit to meet the demands of its twenty mill...

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2004
• 123min

Germany in Autumn is a collective film by some of Germany′s most noted directors: Raine Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlondorff, Edgar Reitz and Alexander Kluge among them The film′s core is the kidnapping and murder of industrialis...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2004
• 108min

The Taekwondo Club of Manse High school once enjoyed a great reputation. But with its decline, it now faces the threat of extinction. The national tournament is coming up, but all the members are injured due to a big fight with fe...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 90min

An omnibus of short films about gay men′s relationships and partings. Kim Chu-ja is a fantasy musical about two men who were lovers in the past and meet by chance. Floating Island is about a quiet, sad love story about a man who w...

World Cinema

• Estonia
• 2004
• 100min

In the summer of 1986, a large group of teenagers get together to spend three days living and partying in a summer camp on a picturesque lake in the woods. Sixteen year old Tanel is one of them. He has come to spend these three d...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2004
• 74min

Splendid Float is a story about a guy named Rose (a.k.a. Roy), who leads two different lives at the same time: Taoist in daytime, drag queen at night. One day, he gets a request to bring back the soul of a recently drowned man and...

Wide Angle

• Latvia
• 2004
• 36min

It is a place teeming with life. Mammals, birds, reptiles and insects interconnect in a unique and athenworldly ecosystem. But it is not the Amazon rainforest or any of our oceans. It is a lowly garbage dump To us, it is a filthy ...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2004
• 14min

This animation is based on the life of Ryan Larkin, a Canadian animator who, decades ago, produced some of the most influential animated films of his time. Today, Ryan lives on welfare and panhandles for spare change in downtown M...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2004
• 95min

During the Jin Dynasty, women were not permitted education. So Jo - a girl from a wealthy family - disguises herself as a man and heads out to school. There she meets Leon - a commoner from a small village - and falls in love wi...