Feature length digital cinema from around the world will be shown and awards presented to filmmakers. This year, 10 nominees were selected from 194 submissions. Jury President: Charles S. Swartz (CEO Entertainment Technology Center at USC, USA) Jury Members: Pitof (Director, France) Jianqi Huo (Director, China) Shoji Masui (Producer, Japan) Awards Grand Prize / Sony D-Cinema Award Certificate and trophy are given by the festival organizers. Trophy and cash reward of 10,000,000 Yen is given by Sony Corp. and Sony Marketing Inc. Best Picture / Sony D-Cinema Award Certificate and trophy are given by the festival organizers. Trophy and cash reward of 1,000,000 Yen is given by Sony Corp. and Sony Marketing Inc. Best New Director / Sony D-Cinema Award Certificate and trophy are given by the festival organizers. Trophy and cash reward of 2,000,000 Yen are given by Sony Corp. and Sony Marketing Inc. (*Limited to the directors whose credits do not exceed three feature films) Best Technology / Sony D-Cinema Award Achievement in use of digital technology Certificate and trophy are given by the festival organizers. Trophy and cash reward of 1,000,000 Yen are given by Sony Corp. and Sony Marketing Inc. Special Jury Prize / Sony D-Cinema Award Certificate and trophy are given by the festival organizers. Trophy and cash reward of 1,000,000 Yen is given by Sony Corp. and Sony Marketing Inc. * All films are subtitled in English and Japanese unless otherwise noted. �š Nominees for Best New Director 7/17 14:00 7/22 18:30 2003�^Germany�^82 min�^German�^Digital BETACAM Director�FMarina Caba Rall Cast�FPetra Kleinert, Ercan Durmaz,Katharina Schmalenberg Two airport cleaning ladies find a foreign man in handcuffs in their cubbyhole. Is he really threatened by unjustified deportation? Or is he nothing but a criminal, attempting to escape the police? The two women must decide whether to believe the fugitive. 7/17 17:00 7/20 13:00 2005�^Japan�^117 min�^Japanese�^HDCAM Director�FMayumi Miyasaka Cast: Kyoko Fukada, Hiromi Nagasaku, Asahi Uchida, Megumi Sato, Masatoshi Nagase One day, an angel materializes before Kato�fs eyes. While the angel seems like an average girl with a passion for gin and lime, she sports a pair of big white wings. Only lonely-hearted people can see her. She may seem ordinary, but this angel touches hearts and transforms lives. 7/17 17:30 7/21 18:00 2004�^USA�^82 min�^English�^DV Director�FMiguel Coyula Cast�FAdam Plotch, Talia Rubel, Jeff Pucillo �¦Not suitable for audience under 18 New York�fs not-so-distant future: the city is ravaged with acid rain and controlled by the DNA 21 Corporation. A young man meets a mysterious woman who disrupts the banality of daily life. Together, they embark on a destructive journey revealing dark family secrets and forbidden desires. 7/18 11:30 7/20 18:30 2005�^USA�^90 min�^English�^HDCAM Director�FMiranda July Cast�FEllen Geer, John Hawkes, Miranda July (c)2005 IFC AND FILMFOUR Christine is an aspiring artist who works as an elder-cab driver. Richard, a divorced shoe salesman, struggles to raise two sons, while yearning for a better life. A chance meeting brings Christine and Richard together, and the two slowly form a fragile relationship. 7/18 14:00 7/21 18:30 2004�^Denmark�^110 min�^Danish�^HDCAM Director�FSusanne Bier Cast�FUlrik Thomsen, Connie Nielsen Nikolaj Lie Kaas Michael is a family man with a successful military career. His brother Jannik is an ex-convict. When Michael�fs helicopter goes down in Afghanistan, Jannik rises to the occasion and begins looking after his sister-in-law and niece. One day, Jannik discovers his brother did not die. 7/18 14:30 7/22 18:00 2004�^China�EJapan�EFrance�^139 min�^Chinese�^HDCAM Director�FZhan-ke Jia Cast�FTao Zhao, Taisheng Chen, Wang Hong-wei At the World Park in Beijing, visitors can see famous international monuments from around the world. Pretty young dancers perform daily in lavish theme park shows. But even this fun and magical theme park proves vulnerable to Beijing�fs increasingly fast-paced culture. 7/19 13:00 7/23 14:30 2003�^Germany�^90 min�^Russian and German�^DV Director�FTill Endemann Cast�FAndrej Dronov, Anton Levit, Annika Blendl (c)FILMVERLAG DER AUTOREN Two brothers from a third-generation German family in Kazakhstan return to Germany. Disconnected from their heritage, the brothers struggle to rediscover their cultural identity in a homeland as foreign as the moon. 7/19 15:30 7/23 11:00 2004�^USA�^90 min�^English�^Digital BETACAM Director�FDaniel Anker Cast�FMembers of Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestra (c) Anker Productions, Inc. A kaleidoscopic look at Philadelphia�fs Philharmonic Orchestra. When the city�fs finest musicians come together, the result is magical, touching members of the audience and orchestra alike. 7/19 18:30 7/23 14:00 2004�^USA�^85 min�^English�^DV Director�FGraham Robertson Cast�FScott Galbreath, Keri Bruno, David Ury The Edwards Corporation creates a clone of entertainment mogul, Abel Edwards, to revive the company�fs glory days. But as the line between fantastical and real blurs, the clone begins to explore his identity, while taking over the floundering corporation. 7/21 13:00 7/23 17:30 2004�^China�^115 min�^Chinese�^HDCAM Director�FJian Zhong Huang Cast�FRao Meng, Yang Gu, Tonghui Wang The District Magistrate Jingren has a homosexual son, Daojing. When Daojing�fs wife commits adultery with a young silversmith, Jingren plots to poison his daughter-in-law�fs lover. This tangled web of romance and deception ultimately leads to tragedy.