Wide Angle

• Czech Republic,Iceland,Estonia
• 2005
• 15min

A public toilet situated in the middle of Prague is the unlikely location for blossoming romance in this short film, when Slavek, a toilet monitor, falls in love with the women’s toilet guard stationed across the street.

World Cinema

• Austria
• 2005
• 100min

In the modern climate of distrust, it could be said that we all have a denunciating side. How far we are able to trust at all is the question the core of Sleeper. Johannes is a scientist working in Munich alongside Farid. Their op...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2005
• 30min

2005 Venice Film Festival Small Station is inspired by a real story. A 60-year-old woman and her 35-year-old mentally disabled son travel from Taipei to a remote train station in the interior of Taiwan. The son is fond of watc...

Critics' Choice

• China
• 2005
• 78min

So Much Rice is the debut feature by the former novelist, Hongqi Li. The film entertains by bringing out strange comical mood and irony from the main characters′ lives which don′t seem to offer much surprises. Although it starts o...

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Lee Man-hee, the Poet of Night

• Korea
• 2005
• 121min

Followed by The Seven Female POWs, with which he was arrested for violating anti-communism act, he made a rather satirical return with this film of ′anti-communistic message where the characters once again are dressed in neat Nort...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 25min

While going to his big brother′s house for a family gathering, the youngest one happens to meet with his father. To the son who silently follows him, the father brags about his trip to the South Pole while eating raw cuttlefish at...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2005
• 117min

The White Rose group′s anti-Nazi activities earned them a great deal of attention from the Gestapo, as well as a place in German history; Sophie Scholl is an icon German resistance. In 1943, Sophie was arrested and taken to Rob...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2005
• 150min

A passionate first love tom by leukemia, and a man who struggles to keep a 17-year-old promise. Following his hugely successful film Crying out Love in the Center of the World which celebrated the purity of an old-fashioned love, ...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2005
• 125min

SSunday Seoul is a film with three nonsensical episodes. A high school student Do-youn who is the victim of bullying in school is the main character of the first episode. He is ugly and bad at studying. What is worse, he cannot fi...

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 2005
• 82min

Advertising was once a tool that was used to sell products we need. In the globalized world, it has become a tool for selling us a lifestyle we should aspire to. When western consumer items are appropriated into India’s culture, a...