Aaltra
Australian Premiere
Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
Belgium 2004
This politically incorrect comedy follows the misadventures of two wheelchair–bound warring neighbours...More
Ae Fond Kiss
Ken Loach
UK 2003
In British director Ken Loach's latest film, Casim, a DJ in Glasgow's coolest venues, is a second generation Pakistani...More
Akame 48 Waterfalls
(Akame shijyuyataki shinjyumisui)
Genjirou Arato
Japan 2003
Arato Genjiro is the long-term producer of many films by the famed director Seijin Suzuki (whose season of abstract pistol operas was a highlight of AFF 03)...More
Bitter Dream
(Khab é talkh)
Australian Premiere
Mohsen Amiryoussefi
Iran 2004
For forty years Esfandiar has been unconcernedly preparing corpses for the journey to their final resting place...More
Brothers
(Brødre)
Australian Premiere
Susanne Bier
Denmark 2004
This second collaboration between director Susanne Bier and scriptwriter Anders Thomas Jensen (their first, Open Hearts, was a hit at AFF 03) is about people's lives being turned upside down by events outside their control...More
Café Lumière
(Kohi jikou)
Australian Premiere
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Japan 2004
Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien has been widely acclaimed as the most important and original filmmaker working today...More
Code 46
Australian Premiere
Michael Winterbottom
UK 2003
Limited Tickets Available
This chilling and beautifully imagined futuristic film takes the present to its logical conclusion...More
Control
(Kontrol)
Australian Premiere
Nimród Antal
Hungary 2003
Deep below the cobbled streets of Budapest two rival groups of ticket inspectors rule the metro system and its passengers whilst trying to track down an anonymous killer...More
Day and Night
(Ri ri ye ye)
Australian Premiere
Wang Chao
China 2004
This delicate study integrates a Sixth Generation critique of China's new industrial miracle with a calculated celebration of the beauty of a ruined world...More
Duck Season
(Temporada de Patos)
Australian Premiere
Fernando Eimbcke
Mexico 2004
Every Sunday 14 year-old Flama's mother heads off to work and he spends all day hanging out in the 11th floor apartment with his best friend Moko...More
Enduring Love
Australian Premiere
Roger Michell
UK 2003
Based on the acclaimed novel by Ian McEwan, Enduring Love is a psychological suspense thriller about how fate shapes our relationships, how accidents can change our lives and how meaning is unravelled from sheer chaos...More
The Green Hat
(Lu mao tze)
Australian Premiere
Liu Fendou
China 2003
After scripting international successes such as Spicy Love Soup and Shower, Liu Fendou's assured debut feature is a bold narrative experiment dealing with the infinite variety of male sexual anxiety in contemporary China...More
Hollow City
(Na cidade vazia)
Australian Premiere
Maria João Ganga
Angola 2004
Orphaned by the civil war in Angola, 12 year-old N'dala is bought to the capital by a nun, but he escapes to explore the city Luanda...More
Human Touch
Australian Premiere
Paul Cox
Australia 2004
Limited Tickets Available
Human Touch marks a culmination in Paul Cox's career in which he reworks the themes which have absorbed him: the obsessiveness of the artist, the sensual pleasures of art and sex, and the inextricable relation between them...More
The Illustrated Family Doctor
Kriv Stenders
Australia 2005
Gary Kelp is haunted by the recent memory of his father's death and is shocked by the discovery that the body has been "harvested" for organ transplants...More
Incident at Loch Ness
Australian Premiere
Zak Penn
USA 2003
Incident at Loch Ness chronicles two films in one...More
Innocence
Australian Premiere
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
France 2004
Innocence is the debut feature of Gaspar Noé (Irreversible) collaborator, Lucile Hadzihalilovic and is based on the Frank Wedekind novella Mine-Haha, or the Corporal Education of Young Girls...More
Jewboy
World Premiere
Tony Krawitz
Australia 2005
After the death of his father, Yuri returns from Israel to the strict Chassidic community of Sydney...More
Kings and Queen
(Rois et Reine)
Australian Premiere
Arnaud Desplechin
France 2004
From one of the greatest young directors working in cinema today and the winner of the prestigious Louis Delluc Prize in France, this popular and critical hit film of the 2004 international film festival circuit tells two stories...More
The Last Train
(Posledniy Poezd)
Australian Premiere
Aleksei German Jr.
Russia 2003
Aleksei German, the 26 year-old son of the distinguished Russian filmmaker Aleksai German, turns to his own family history for inspiration in his debut feature...More
Love in Thoughts
(Was Nützt die Liebe in Gendanken)
Australian Premiere
Achim von Borries
Germany 2004
Does it really exist, the pinnacle of life? Guenther and Paul are convinced that it does: they want to live - to the limit and with no compromises – and they expect the same of love...More
Mama's Guest
(Mehman-o-Maman)
Australian Premiere
Dariush Mehrjui
Iran
Iranian New Wave cinema icon Dariush Mehrjui crafts an apparently artless tale with beguiling skill and mastery...More
Midwinter Night's Dream
Australian Premiere
Goran Paskaljevic
Serbia and Montenegro 2004
This is a gentle fable about love, hope and acceptance in a world that has gone mad...More
Moolaadé
Australian Premiere
Ousmane Sembene
Senegal 2004
Despite his 82 years, Ousmane Sembene remains the most impassioned voice of African cinema...More
Nobody Knows
(Dare Mo Shiranai)
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Japan 2004
Hirokazu Kore-eda established himself as a major voice in Japanese cinema with films such as Maborosi and After Life...More
Ong Bak
Prachya Pinkaew
Thailand 2003
There is nothing more satisfying than watching Tony Jaa (Jaa Phanom) apply a justly dished out flying elbow to the evil thugs in the hit Thai film Ong Bak...More
Panorama Ephemera
Australian Premiere
Rick Prelinger
USA 2004
This beautiful collage work by legendary film collector and archivist Rick Prelinger is composed of sequences drawn from a wide variety of ephemeral (industrial, advertising, educational and amateur) films, touring conflicted North American landscapes...More
Peaches
Australian Premiere
Craig Monahan
Australia 2003
Sold Out
Set in two time frames in South Australia's Riverland, Peaches tells the story of Stephanie (Emma Lung)...More
Primer
Australian Premiere
Shane Carruth
USA 2004
Behind a garage door, four competitive young entrepreneurial tech-wiz guys in white shirts and ties spend their every spare minute working on the "box"...More
Rhinoceros Eyes
Australian Premiere
Aaron Woodley
Canada 2004
When the movie-prop store that young and exquisitely androgenous Chep works in is to be sold, his world will change...More
Shouf Shouf Habibi!
Albert ter Heerdt
Netherlands 2004
High-spirited Abdullah is a 20 year-old Arab Muslim living in Holland with his Moroccan parents...More
Silent Waters
(Khamosh pani)
Australian Premiere
Sabiha Sumar
Pakistan 2003
The first narrative feature by acclaimed independent documentary maker Sabiha Sumar is set in 1979 Pakistan and tells the story of Saleem, an aimless youth in love with local beauty Zubeida and adored by his widowed mother, Ayesha...More
The Sleeping Child
(L'Enfant Endormi)
Australian Premiere
Yasmine Kassari
Belgium 2004
In contemporary Morocco, a young wife watches her husband leave the country to go underground the day after their wedding...More
South of the Clouds
Zhu Wen
China 2004
A retired engineer fulfils a youthful dream to visit the remote mountain province of Yunnan...More
Spider Forest
(Geomisoop)
Australian Premiere
Song Il-gon
South Korea 2004
After awakening in a dark, mysterious forest, TV producer Min finds the mutilated bodies of a woman and man in a cabin...More
The Syrian Bride
(Hacala hasurit)
Australian Premiere
Eran Riklis
France 2004
"The Syrian Bride is an emotional, authentic and often humorous drama defying all borders, whether physical or mental...More
A Taste for Murder
(Une Place parmi les vivants)
Australian Premiere
Raúl Ruiz
France 2003
A Taste for Murder is Chilean master Raúl Ruiz's playful concoction of noir murder mystery set in Paris in the 1940s...More
Woman of Breakwater
(Babae sa Breakwater)
Australian Premiere
Mario O'Hara
Philippines 2003
A community of fringe dwellers tries to eke out a living along the length of the Manila Bay sea wall, a place awash with the deitrus of the city...More