Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 8min

This documentary is about Melburnia doors, which look as they sound. The film is an ensemble of 24 doors fearturing their owners' stories about them. It is an experiment in combining sampling techniques in music with documentary i...

World Cinema

• Senegal,Morocco,France,Tunisie,Cameroon,BurkinaFaso
• 2004
• 120min

From acclaimed Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene comes a searing indictment of an ancient practice still carried out today in 38 of the 54 member states of the African Union. Some form of female genital mutilation - also referre...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2004
• 130min

M. F. Husain, director of Meenaxi: Tale of 3 Cities, is known as a great figure of Indian art history. Meenaxi: Tale of 3 Cities carries strange colors that seem to cast strange spells. The film does not describe the characters wi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2004
• 102min

Based on the novel by Dirk Kurbjuweit - who also wrote the screenplay - Gun-Shy is a poetic thriller which depicts one man′s desolation and disintegration. Lukas is a solitary soul who spends his days delivering meals on wheels. H...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2004
• 83min

This is the second film by Director Hassan Yektapanah, whose previous film, Djomeh, won the Cannes Film Festival′s Camera d′Or for best feature. A group of masked Iranians sitting in a bus is headed for a different wond, escaping ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2004
• 105min

In the summer of 1974 when the Cultural Revolution sways the fate of ordinary people, Xing Yu and Si Mong happen to bump into each other on a bus. That short moment decides their destiny forever. The Foliage is a story about a des...

Open Cinema

• Germany
• 2004
• 120min

"You can put an end to your life without killing yourself." Cahit is told this by his doctor at a psychiatric hospital. He has tried to commit suicide. He knows he should start a new life, but he is unsure as to whether or not he ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2004
• 118min

In 1968 Kyoto, Japanese high school student Kosuke spends everyday dreaming of having girlfriend. An-sung, the leader of a delinquent group at a Korean high school for Korean residents, spends everyday fighting against rowdy Karat...

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2004
• 93min

A young woman and a young man live together in an apartment possessing an oppressive silence. He is a failed writer, happy to sit on the sofa all day reading. She is full of life and energy and in defiance, goes out dancing all ni...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2004
• 124min

Multitude poor people live in and around the Manila Bay breakwater. Two brothers, expelled from their hometown for unknown reasons, drift into the bay and meet a tired prostitute named Paquita. They are all under the watchful eye...