World Cinema

• Republic of South Africa
• 2005
• 120min

Bizet′s 19th century libretto Carmen endures because of its timeless, and endlessly adaptable, themes of love, lust, revenge, violence, and power. The story of Carmen is transplanted to a modem South African township, a dynamic sp...

Special Programs in Focus

• UK,France,NewZealand
• 2005
• 125min

Mike Leigh has focused on the working class for much of his career; the struggles, the motivations and the circumstances. In 1950 London, working-class house cleaner Vera has a side job providing abortions for desperate girls. Whe...

Wide Angle

• Australia
• 2005
• 52min

In 1965, when Vietnam was facing the potential of massive US bombing, the Vietnamese went underground. The Hanoi National Conservatory of Music relocated into the tunnels of the countryside and carried on teaching and playing. The...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Palestine,France
• 2005
• 88min

Six years after his debut film, Director Ahmad wants to make a satirical comedy. He decides to go into exile in the West after failing to fulfill his ambition. However, just before leaving, his friend asks him to audition actors f...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2005
• 22min

A man and a woman meet again in a coffee shop after being introduced by a matchmaker. The man brings a present wrapped in a pink cloth and the woman spares her words as if she′s shy. But when they talk about the memories and exper...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India,Canada
• 2005
• 118min

The latest film by Deepa Mehta is a story of the repressed life of Indian widows. 1938, India. The just-married eight-year-old girl Chuyia becomes a widow after her husband passes away. Under Hindu doctrine that believes a wife is...

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

• Korea
• 2005
• 92min

In mid-1960s known as the period in which "literary cinema" became thriving, Lee who was in desperate search of new cinematic language became interested in cinematic re-interpretation of pre-existed fiction. Based on a short story...

Korean Cinema

• Korea
• 2005
• 90min

A comedy and epilogue about marriage and divorce. On their 2nd anniversary of marriage, Kang A Nam-dae and Jang Young-mi become bored with their routine sex life. They visit a motel to re live their first night ㅁtogether and recor...

Wide Angle

• Ukraina
• 2005
• 10min

This short film is based on a traditional lullaby and is about childhood visions-be they good, bad or ugly. In Wayfarers, dreams don′t come true, and once childhood is gone it′s gone forever. Igor Strembitskyy, who grew up in a vi...

Closing Film

• Korea
• 2005

The closing film is Korean director HWANG Byung-kuk’s feature directorial debut Wedding Campaign. This heart-warming humandrama with resonance is more of an earnest anthem dedicated to those in the periphery who live their lives t...