Open Cinema

• Germany
• 2004
• 120min

"You can put an end to your life without killing yourself." Cahit is told this by his doctor at a psychiatric hospital. He has tried to commit suicide. He knows he should start a new life, but he is unsure as to whether or not he ...

Wide Angle

• Sweden
• 2004
• 76min

Director Carl Johan De Geer grew up in an upper class home with his grandparents, his parens Iiving in another country altogether. As a teenager, he left his affluent home behind and set out to forge a completely different life fo...

New Current

• Taiwan
• 2004
• 90min

Ah-Zhou, who is about to be honorably discharged from military service, has a surreal dream the dream, he sees the dead body of Chen Shin-shin, a classmate in elementary school from years back. Isthis dream implying that Chen Shin...

World Cinema

• Angola,Portugal
• 2004
• 90min

The hollow city of the title is Luanda, the Angolan capital, where a war orphan meets his inevitable fate. N′dala is a refugee child being escorted to Luanda with a group of children by a nun. Once they arrive, N′dala runs off to ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 83min

After surviving a sea storm that destroyed his ship, Bumi must engage the efforts of others in the rebuilding of the Utopian Castle. The first help comes from a giant dragon, followed by the initially combative Bob Clan. Even th...

World Cinema

• Finland
• 2004
• 103min

Tom is an American songwriter. He′s in Germany, after years on the road, for one last club tour that he is obligated to do. Lacking motivation and mired in a creative slump, he′s ready to go home.Tom Natascha is a Russian dancer. ...

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

• 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...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 42min

The research office in Chung Moo Ro is closed down and a relationship comes to an end. These two events are seen from a subjective point of view. The film rejects the conventional narrative style and it seems to have a patchwork ...

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...