Wide Angle

• China
• 2004
• 85min

Jing Ming who works in advertising in Zhengzhou, likes taking photographs. He carries his camera wherever he goes. The act of showing his photos or taking photos is his way of showing affection towards the person. Then he falls i...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2004
• 14min

Incapable of paying back a loan shark, a man goes to his friend to borrow money. Hne mmeno lo aying, and has left a will saying that all the money he has belongs to this same friend. The man hurries to the hospital. However, two ...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2004
• 105min

Can haiku, a form of Japanese poetry, be animated? The answer is yes. It has been achieved. Winter Days, Matsuo Basho′s famous haiku collection, has now been tumed into an animated film through collaboration between 35 leading an...

World Cinema

• Croatia
• 2004
• 88min

Three Croatian soldiers are intending to commit an act of sabotage. When the mission fails, the survivors and one′s brother attempt to get revenge on a Serbian businessman, and unexpectedly murder him. But now they must decide wha...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2004
• 88min

Two men who went to the same school meet after a long time. They indulge in their memories of a woman and visit her. The woman was once the girlfriend of the older man and then dates the younger man after a break up with the first...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2004
• 124min

Multitude poor people live in and around the Manila Bay breakwater. Two brothers, expelled from their hometown for unknown reasons, drift into the bay and meet a tired prostitute named Paquita. They are all under the watchful eye...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2004
• 112min

Haruko runs to Shinnosuko with hor hoart brokøn, but loaves him as soon as she falls in love witn another man. Shinnosuke somotimos Imaginod hle dostiny with her, looking at the foods they both like. But, now she is gne and Shinno...

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2004
• 60min

In 1942, a Zero Sentoki crashes in Indonesia. Although the pilot, Yasujiro Yamada, survives the crash, he has never been found. Half a century later, in 2002, the grandson of the pilot, also named Yasujiro Yamada, comes to Indones...

Special Programs in Focus

• Germany
• 2004
• 88min

Anita is a young, Jewish, East German refugee. Without a job or a home, she gets caught stealing and lands in prison. Upon her release, she finds she remains an awkward newcomer. Though her probation officer tries to help, she can...

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...