World Cinema

• the Netherlands
• 2004
• 91min

Paradise Girls is about three young women who are going through an emotional phase in their lives in different places in the world. Twenty-three year old Miki, twenty-one year old Pei Pei and twenty-four year old Shirley are each...

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2004
• 106min

Paul and Paula meet by chance in a bar. They know each other, and have for some time, but have never really connected. Paul is unhappily married. Paula has two children and is being courted by an older tire salesman - and marriage...

Wide Angle

• Czech
• 2004
• 9min

A young, successful shoe shop owner has his world tuned upside down one day by an unlikely culprit. Everything in the shoe seller′s life and career is going well, when one day into his store walks a barefoot man. Fashion Statemen...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 38min

The great thing about this film is not that it′s a product of 3 year′s CG work, but that it uses the familiar topic of "memory" to weave its story. The earth of the future is at war between the northern and the southern hemispher...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2004
• 110min

The Letter is a remake of director Lee Jung-gook′s film from 1997. Dew leads a solitary life after the death of her grandmother and roommate. She ends up marrying Ton after an incident where Ton picks up her purse, but Ton also so...

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2004
• 114min

Wim Wenders has crafted a poignant, funny film about contemporary America. Opposing perspectives relay the hope that truth is not an ideal lost in the socio-political realm of America in 2003. Paul is a Vietnam War veteran - a Gre...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2004
• 108min

The film is based on a true story. In the rural village of Prom Pi Ram, Thailand, a young woman is found dead beside the train tracks. At first, her death seems like an accident. As the police investigation progresses, however, it...

Wide Angle

• Belgium
• 2004
• 11min

Everyone has his or her routines - especially when it comes to the home. But when does hanging a picture become a hazard to our health? How could special skills be required to do the laundry? Is leisurely constructing a house of ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2004
• 144min

Yoichi Sai′s Blood and Bones is centered on a man who is hated and abandoned by everyone. His name is Kim Sun-pei. The Godfather by Francis Ford Coppola depicted empty dreams and shadows of the “American Dream." Blood and Bones, b...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 21min

Verox boy Su-in refuses to work at the resident′s registration office. A girl from the village office- who once photocopied a letter of complaint with a picture of herself brutally beaten attached - shows interest in him. Her app...