Critics` Choice

• Argentina,France
• 2004
• 76min

Los Muertos begins with a scene showing two dead bodies in the forest. Then it tracks the trail of a South American Indian man who comes to realize that life is full of unexpected incidents. This man, just out of prison, is on his...

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2004
• 99min

Young Nathalie leaves her rural hometown to fulfill her dreams in the city. Her first order of business is to locate Johnny, a rock star she once met and who told her that she would be welcome to contact him if and when she was ev...

Critics` Choice

• Japan
• 2004
• 68min

Tsuburo is a film about a man and a woman who are caught in the middle of an incident without knowing either the cause or the result. In the film, the world is suddenly overwhelmed with disasters, and the characters start exhibiti...

Critics` Choice

• Iceland
• 2004
• 93min

Though this film is a Norwegian, British co-production, Cold Light is another well made Icelandic film following director Bradley Rust Gray′s Salt from last year. Indeed, the film is obviously a masterpiece, proving the outstandi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2004
• 110min

For Sudhir Mishra, it seems to be possible that people living in different places can console each other. In pouring rain, Aman Kapoor, an investment consultant, stays on the quiet road with his broken down car waiting to be repai...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2004
• 80min

Wherever you are, McDonald′s and Chinese restaurants are easy to find. While the McDonald′ s hamburgers with its standard taste represents itself as the symbol of food capitalism, Chinese restaurants always serve different tastes...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 29min

Two guys are having a big Baduk (Korean checkers) match. One is a legendary master who came back to the mach after 30 years after hearing about a friend′s death by swallowing 30 Baduk pieces. The other, young top-ranking player C...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 23min

After writing a note of ′body-abandonment owing to a debt, a man invades an empty house intending to rob it. Met by the husband and wife in the house, he commits cold-blooded murder. Nothing scares him - not the police running af...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 118min

Set on the island of Sumba (between Bali and Timor) with dialogue partly in the local dialect, this centres on the nine-year-old boy Lewa, whose life changes when an ad-man shooting a commercial gives him a Polaroid camera. Lewa’s...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2004
• 169min

PIFF almost regularly invites this director. Mani Ratnam is again invited to PIFF with his praise song of youth. The youth are full of a passion, wanting to change society. Youth can be reckless, at times, when it comes to love. Y...