Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong
• 2005
• 89min

A Side B Side Seaside is a story about two girls who bid farewell to their own youth. Up against the same setting, the two girls′ story of how differently they spent their adolescence overlaps one another. One story is lead by a g...

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• Canada
• 2005
• 123min

Spanning continents, Thom Fitzgerald directs a strong international cast in this epic film about people fighting an epidemic. In Canada, cut-rate porn actor Denys repeatedly fakes his blood tests by using the blood of his ailing f...

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• Thailand
• 2005
• 129min

Black Silk(1961), a crime drama sometimes labeled Thailand′s first film noir, is arguably his best work. In contrast to his previous two films, Pestonji here takes on much more serious subject matters, most significantly Prae′s re...

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• Iran
• 2005
• 86min

A Simple Event is Sohrab Shahid Saless′ first feature film. He made it with the budget of a short film. Shahid Saless shot every scene in one take and made a feature in two weeks. At that time he was young (27 years-old) and unkno...

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• Taiwan
• 2005
• 102min

Fishing Luck is similar to the usual romance films but, at the same time, it holds a mood of romance that can′t be seen easily. The film is set on Lanyu Orchid Island where the beautiful scenery is overwhelmingly recreated, giving...

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• Indonesia
• 2005
• 100min

Ballad of the Man is the title of Teguh Karya′s first film, produced in 1970. By observing and contemplating the main message at the film′s core, it is revealed as a reflection of Karya′s individuality. Amallo feels like a strange...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2005
• 90min

Still Life, Sohrab Shahid Saless′ second film, chronicles the forced retirement of a poor old man in a remote part of northern Iran who works as a railroad track guard and switchman. The story is told with a more sophisticated sen...

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• Thailand
• 2005
• 134min

Sugar Is Not Sweet(1964) is a romantic farce shot in vibrant scope and it returns to Country Hotel′s patchwork style of narrative: there are numerous, largely inconsequential musical interludes, dance sequences and processions, bu...

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• UK
• 2005
• 98min

A violent act of savagery is at the heart of this film. In the town of Blighty, three young men, Robert, Joe and Ben, carry out their days in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq-the film′s dominant motif-in a haze of boredom and m...

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• Australia
• 2005
• 100min

Meryl is on the verge of losing her job if she doesn′t complete a project immediately. Nick has been diagnosed with cancer and has no idea what to expect. Andy′s girlfriend Anna is pregnant and gives him a few days to consider his...