World Cinema

• Russia
• 2005
• 126min

The contradictory and seemingly hypocritical nature of human existence is explored in llia Khrzhanovsky′s controversial debut film. Two parallel tales unfold in two distinct spheres. Or perhaps not distinct at all. In a bar in Mos...

World Cinema

• France
• 2005
• 90min

The normal order of things is reversed in Francois Ozon′s latest, 5x2. Instead of beginning where most romances do, Ozon uses the device most recognizable from Harold Pinter′s Betrayal with divorce proceedings his jumping off poin...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2005
• 97min

Jeanne is a doctor consumed by guilt. Her life is at a standstill because of the murder of one of her patients and the woman′s daughter-a murder Jeanne believes she could have prevented. Francois is consumed with fear for his aili...

World Cinema

• Nethelands,Belgium
• 2005
• 90min

Anna is married with a young son-the picture of happiness. Her career as an irrigation specialist takes her around the world, and while in Egypt, she discovers the body of a woman colleague who has committed suicide. Like Anna, th...

World Cinema

• Estonia
• 2005
• 112min

Alice is a costume designer in her mid-twenties. She returns to her Tallinn home after vacationing Portugal to discover the television studio she worked for has gone bankrupt. She and her two friends and former colleagues Ada and ...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2005
• 92min

Leila is an adventurous and independent young woman who has never experienced love. And she wouldn′t have it any other way. She′s happy with her porn and casual, quasi-anonymous sexual trysts. She′s occupied by her cousin Rachel′s...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2005
• 97min

A nine-year-old boy living on an abandoned riverboat is the setting for this quasi-coming of age story. The boy leads a solitary life until he meets a girl who lives in a house nearby. She provides his first taste of affection and...

World Cinema

• France
• 2005
• 107min

James Toback′s 1978 cult favorite Fingers provides the basis for Audiard′s latest film. In that film, Harvey Keitel played a man trapped in the world of the New York mafia who had aspirations to being a concert pianist. Audiard an...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2005
• 118min

Marco Tullio Giordana achieved phenomenal critical success with his generational epic The Best of Youth, which was set against some of the most turbulent years in Italy′s history. Leaving the past behind, Giordana has set his new ...

World Cinema

• Iceland,Denmark
• 2005
• 106min

Director Dagur Kari is known for his off beat sense of humor and low-key filmic tone. He′s stated in the past that he prefers making films that are a ′catalogue of ideas′ rather than traditional narratives, and he has carried out ...