Special Programs in Focus

• Greece,Italy,France
• 2004
• 170min

Three autonomous stories - The Weeping Meadow, The Third Wing and Retum- elegantly chronicle the broader story of a time just passed, and acts as a summation of our recent departed century, and the century we are embarking on. The...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2004
• 121min

Koki Mitani, the screenwriter and Mamoru Hoshi, the director meet to create an original comic film Just like all the other Koki Mitani′s dramas, most of the story in University of Laughs unfolds in one single space. We know very w...

World Cinema

• Uruguay
• 2004
• 94min

Jacobo′s life is his gloomy little stocking factory. Most of his time is spent grumbling orders to his humble and loyal assistant Marta. Their relationship never goes beyond quietly and efficiently working side by side. Jacobo′s ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Greece
• 2004
• 230min

Between the turbulent years of 1939 and 1952, a traveling drama troupe jourmeys from province to province, village to village, performing Persiadis′ Golfo the Shepherdess. The increasingly impoverished actors relationship to each ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Greece
• 2004
• 176min

Tuming to The Odyssey for inspiration, Angelopoulos crafts a film about the burden of memory each of us carries with us. A Greek-American filmmaker identified only as A, returns to his hometown in northern Greece when his latest f...

World Cinema

• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2004
• 96min

Appliance mechanic Fuke goes to his aunt and uncle′s house to repair a broken boiler. Sabira and Idriz have lost their son to the war, and as a result, Fuke is welcomed by a suffocating pain and silence in their home. Unable to co...

Wide Angle

• Philippines
• 2004
• 103min

Imelda is the wife of former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, who stayed in power for 20 years until forced out of office in 1986. She became an intemational star on the strength of her brilliant taste, cosmopolitan posture...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2004
• 128min

New work from Takashi Miike is always unpredictable, and cinephiles may feel blown away yet again by Izo. It mocks the borders of taboo through extreme violence. The spirit of Izo, an Edo-period samurai, can go neither to heaven n...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 118min

This film documents the struggle of Korea Telecom temporary workers that began in December 2000nd continued for 517 days. It charts the establishment of the labor union by the workers to the tebanding that came about against their...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2004
• 8min

Thisfctional piece is about the communication between a woman who dwells in the water and a man who dwells in the sand. The surfaces of the water and the land are connected, and the border between the two raversed by seeds and fi...