New Currents

• Hong Kong
• 2005
• 98min

The world feels suffocating when you are young, due largely to discontent with your own soci or with older generations. Every society has its own problems, and every youth has his her own discontent to deal with. One Summer With Y...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 14min

The severely disabled daughter who begins to have sexual desires expresses her own desire by hurting herself. Unable to see her in pain, her father even tries to buy a guy for her or ask a favor to someone but he′s just treated as...

World Cinema

• Palestine,Germany,Nethelands,France
• 2005
• 90min

"I am not an Israeli-Arab... I am a Palestinian. I have an Israeli passport but it does not make me an Israeli. As long as Israel continues to be a Jewish state, I cannot be an Israeli as I am not a Jew. I am not against the Jews ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India,United States
• 2005
• 120min

10-year-old Parzania is an innocent and good boy, raised with his parents’ boundless love. His angelic dream is to live in an imaginary world made of the ice cream and chocolate. Clever and warmhearted, Parzania tells the story li...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2005
• 90min

The 5th film of Ying Ning, who has persistently criticized Chinese society in her Beijing Trilogy which includes / Love Beijing presented at PIFF 2003, Perpetual Motion is a poignant criticism of past Chinese society from the pers...

World Cinema

• Italy,Poland,Russia
• 2005
• 117min

Polish master Krzysztof Zanussi returns with a new film where historical trends inform the present. Victor is the newly widowed Polish ambassador to Uruguay. Returning home following his wife′s death, he meets his old friend Oleg,...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2005
• 30min

One day, a broken UFO falls into the house of a girl called Funny. Corona and Crescent, the fallen extra terrestrials, become Funny′s pets. Together, they go through several adventures, from hunting with African masks to taking ca...

Special Programs in Focus

• Argentina,Chile,France
• 2005
• 105min

Described director Scherson as an urban fairy tale, Play proposes questions of identity, definition and place?and their relationships to each other. The central character is Cristina, a lonely nurse Santiago. She sees the space sh...

New Currents

• Iran,Japan
• 2005
• 81min

A feature debut of Mohammad Ahmadi, the director of the documentary Captive, Waiting presented at PIFF 2002. Written by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film deals with the growing-up story of an innocent 25-year-old cleaner, who comes to g...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2005
• 111min

Still active as an experimental filmmaker even at the age of 82, Seijun Suzuki made this film following Pistol Opera. Catching the world′s eyes original genre films in the ′60s, and Zigeunerweisen in the ′80s, his latest film is a...