Special Programs in Focus

• Greece
• 2004
• 126min

In an isolated, border zone town, a joumalist investigates the meaning of the town′s nickname: the walting room. The majority of the residents are refugees - in the town illegally - having crossed the border and who are now just ...

World Cinema

• SerbiaandMontenegro
• 2004
• 95min

After a ten-year absence, Lazar is returning to his Serbian home. He is a different man now, newly liberated after a decade in prison. Like him, the country itself seems to want a better future. Jasna is a single mother with an au...

New Current

• Hong Kong
• 2004
• 90min

Ever since the return of Hong Kong to China, Hong Kong people seem to ask questions like, "Am I really happy?" or "Will I be happy someday?" Their questions root from the uncertainty of their future. Recently, Hong Kong filmmaker...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2004
• 96min

Wahab enjoys an easygoing carefree way of life in Montreal. Shortly after a debauched and decadent birthday celebration, the young man of Lebanese descent learns of his father′s death. His aunts and uncles - the people who raised...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2004
• 117min

Ocean Feveris a story of a rock music festival held in Taiwan in the summer of 2003. The Ho-Hai-Yan Rock Festival has tuned out to be an important opportunity for young independent Taiwanese bands to meet the world since its incep...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2004
• 119min

Shinji Aoyama′s psycho-thriller, Lakeside Murder Case, based on a bestselling novel, arouses viewers′ curiosity. Director Shinji has been focusing on the uneventful world until recently. Viewers are inevitably attracted to this ne...

World Cinema

• Austria
• 2004
• 82min

Welcome to the Hotel Waldhaus, an ideal destination for the family, but also for the solitary traveler seeking plenitude and calm. In the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock comes an off-beat thriller that has its roots planted firmly i...

World Cinema

• Bulgaria
• 2004
• 91min

As Mila from Mars opens, we see a pregnant and bruised sixteen-year-old girl running away from a clearly dangerous man. She escapes to a remote border village with all of nine citizens: nine elderly people who grow marijuana for a...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2004
• 104min

Anna is in her early thirties and is in a committed, loving relationship with her boyfriend David, who is a painter. Anna sings in a choir where her remarkable voice and luminous presence command attention. During a concert, she i...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 93min

In the 1970s, Golden Harvest attempted co-productions with Korean film companies in their search for the next Bruce Lee. Their search took them to the nation of taekwondo and turned up various beautiful outdoor locations and histo...