Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 87min

Made via co-production with locations provided by Korea, Duel to the Death is the theatrical debut of Ching Siu Tung, a master of Hong Kong martial arts films such A Chinese Ghost Story(1987) and The Legend of the Swordsman(1991)...

New Current

• Japan
• 2004
• 120min

This film is filled with creative imagination. Director Gen Sekiguchi creates a humorous world fully appreciated by Japanese pop culture. Yoko, a TV commercial planner tries to murder his hypnotist girlfriend Aoyama. Ishigaki want...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2004
• 112min

Haruko runs to Shinnosuko with hor hoart brokøn, but loaves him as soon as she falls in love witn another man. Shinnosuke somotimos Imaginod hle dostiny with her, looking at the foods they both like. But, now she is gne and Shinno...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 21min

Sara Jeanne, an old prostitute in a Gijichon (military camp-side town), realizes she cannolonger lead her life as a prostitute. Hiding wrinkles under thick make-up and dependent onalcohol, she tries hard to survive in the town. Sh...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2004
• 123min

Out of This World comes as a surprise from a director, Junji Sakamoto, who showed his talent for describing tough lives in a very gentle form. The film is set after the Second VWorld War, but life is comic and optimistic throughou...

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 6min

Three friends find a mysterious object on the road. They agree to find out if it is cow shit while trying not to dirty their shoes.

Wide Angle

• NewZealand
• 2004
• 15min

Recent arrivals from Korea, Su Jung and Kim are settling into their West Auckland home. Unknown to Kim, Su Jung befriends the neighbors who take her along to their weekly swimming lessons. When dinner is not cooked and the routine...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 148min

For ten years, the director met with POWS who refused to change their political beliefs. The film has a liist person narrator and is dramatic, especially as it spans over such a long time period. The director talks quietly and sl...

Critics` Choice

• France
• 2004
• 88min

Two women are trapped in despair. One is Claire, who is in her late teens and is pregnant against her will. The other is an Armenian woman, Melikian, who raised her son alone but lost him in a car accident. The common ground for t...

World Cinema

• Turkey
• 2004
• 97min

Recep and Mehmet are two friends who take summer jobs in Tavsanli, Turkey in the 1960s. Recep works for a watermelon salesman and Mehmet is apprentice to a barber. On the side, the two movie-mad friends dream of being film directo...