Wide Angle

• Finland
• 2005
• 28min

Hollywood wasn’t the only industry to produce its own version of [Titanic]. In the last bastion of isolated totalitarianism, movies like [Woman Warrior of Koryo] are produced to use the cinema as a mobilizing force for revolution....

Special Programs in Focus

• Peru
• 2005
• 130min

"The script looks to openly address the anguish contained within the sensation of uneasiness that exists when something that we aspire to is taken away; the sensation felt when things we yeamed for escape us, are unreachable. It a...

World Cinema

• Lithuania
• 2005
• 110min

With unconventional visual elements and a unique sense of dramatic composition, The Forest of Gods tells the story of the Professor, an artist, who survives two suffocating regimes: the Nazis and the Soviets. We first meet the Pro...

PIFF‘s Asian Pantheon

• Vietnam
• 2005
• 100min

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2005
• 68min

Grace Lee. It seems that we all know someone called Grace Lee. The name is the quintessential name for Asian-American women, and the director Grace Lee has used the moniker as a springboard into an investigation of gender, ethnici...

Special Programs in Focus

• Malaysia
• 2005
• 90min

The film begins with children going to school early in the morning. follows the everyday poor yet peaceful family with many children. The same old days go by, and just you begin wonder if this is a fictional film or an ethnographi...

Special Programs in Focus

• UK
• 2005
• 98min

A violent act of savagery is at the heart of this film. In the town of Blighty, three young men, Robert, Joe and Ben, carry out their days in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq-the film′s dominant motif-in a haze of boredom and m...

Special Programs in Focus

• UK
• 2005
• 100min

The events of 9/11 are burned into the collective consciousness as acts perpetuated by monsters: by someone less than human. Quite to the contrary, the mass murderers involved in the events at the World Trade Center and the Pentag...

World Cinema

• Angola,Portugal,France
• 2005
• 97min

Vitorio is a 20-year veteran of Angola′s 30-year long civil conflict. He′s lost a leg, and now in Luanda he′s lost the prosthesis he worked so hard to get to street kids. As he searches the city′s slums for it, he cobbles together...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 95min

Through the daily lives of ′Nottle′ members, who perform theater art while living as a collective, the film presents the lifestyle they hope to pursue. Also, by relating to and harmonizing with the local people, they create a coll...