New Current

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 90min

The Rainmaker is an avant-garde film full of symbols and obscurity. It is the forbidden love story of Johan, a meteorologist who wants to make artificial rain and Asih, a traditional puppet show singer. Asih is the diva of the vil...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 85min

Schoolmistress is a film starring Li Ching, the Shaw Brothers Princess,′ who was the most popular Hong Kong actress in Korea after Susanna was released in 1967. This co-production is remarkable in two senses: first, it revives th...

New Current

• Korea
• 2004
• 85min

A young man and a woman are poor and somewhat reserved, but they love each other sincerely. The man dreams of becoming a director, but in reality, he is only a part-time weding cameraman. The woman wanders from one job to another ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2004
• 97min

Homicide detective Choi is fed up with the busy and rough life of Seoul. He requests to be reassigned to a police unit in the countryside. The small village where there is no crime all year round is literally a paradise for him. H...

World Cinema

• Spain,Chile
• 2004
• 120min

Gonzalo Infante and Pedro Machuca are 11-year old classmates at Father McEnroe′s elite parochial school. It is Chile of 1973. Gonzalo lives in a wealthy neighborhood just a few blocks from Pedro′s shanty town. Father McEnroe force...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong
• 2004
• 78min

A housewife, forever short of money, Madame McBing looks after her son McDull, a daydreaming piglet. Hoping to anticipate problems that might arise from the uncertain political situation, she starts taking out insurance policies, ...

World Cinema

• United States,Germany,UK,Argentina
• 2004
• 126min

With a highly romantic sense of adventure, two friends leave their familiar surroundings in Buenos Aires for an eight-month journey. When their bike breaks down, they press on, hitching rides along the way. As they begin to see a...

World Cinema

• Croatia
• 2004
• 88min

Three Croatian soldiers are intending to commit an act of sabotage. When the mission fails, the survivors and one′s brother attempt to get revenge on a Serbian businessman, and unexpectedly murder him. But now they must decide wha...

Critics` Choice

• Israel
• 2004
• 110min

Thirst by Palestinian director Tawfik Abu Wael is a story of a family yearning for a bucket of water in a barren land. The family has lived on an empty land the Israeli government made available 50 years ago, but the traces of the...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2004
• 114min

Wushan, in China, is where the world′s largest dam construction project is in progress. The list stage is completed, dividing the region into an old area that will soon be submerged underwater, and a new area that is packed with ...