New Current

• Japan
• 2002
• 115min

Woman of Water was inspired by the true story of UA who plays Ryo in the film. UA is a famous singer in Japan, who seems to call upon rain every time she performs at an important concert. Based on this fact, the film revolves arou...

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• Korea
• 2002
• 110min

A wife is in despair when she finds out about her husband’s infidelity. Out of guilt, the husband decides they will move to the idyllic countryside to console her. There the wife meets an attractive yet pessimistic doctor who draw...

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• Taiwan
• 2002
• 103 min

The Trigger, the directorial debut from Alex Yang, seems definitely to follow the traditions of Taiwanese cinema associated with the likes of Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, etc. Just as in the films by these directors, the storylin...

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• Japan
• 2002
• 118min

Border Line is a film by Korean-Japanese director Lee Sang-il, a graduate from Japan’s Moving Image Academy. His previous film, Blue Chong, was about a third generation Korean-Japanese attending a North Korean sponsored school. Bo...

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• China
• 2002
• 90 min

A small-town policeman, 42-year-old Ma Shan, wakes up one morning to discover that his gun is missing. In China, an officer who loses his gun can be sent to prison for up to three years. Believing he must have lost it at a wedding...

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• Indonesia
• 2002
• 83min

Eliana lives in Jakarta after leaving her hometown. Her mother Bunda is trying to take her back home. Eliana, Eliana is about the conflicts between mother and daughter during a single night. In this low-budget digital adventure fi...

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• Iran
• 2002
• 106 min

Is there a nation that unjustly imprisons its citizens? According to independent film director Manijeh Hekmat, Iran is such a society. When one realizes that two thirds of Iranian citizens have been to prison, one can understand t...

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• India
• 2002
• 89 min

The Rite... A Passion is the directorial debut from Indian film critic K.N.T. Sastry. The film received the Indira Gandhi Award for the Best First Feature Film. Subbaiah is a priest who goes from funeral to funeral, to study and p...

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• Korea
• 2002
• 67 min

A man meets a woman, falls in love, and spends his life with her. Perhaps the most shocking aspect of this film is that it boldly depicts the sexuality of a couple in their seventies. Based on a true story the director encountered...

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• Korea
• 2002
• 123min

Graduate student Won-sang is dumped by his girlfriend. When he finds out that she was seeing Yun-sik, a magazine editor, he gets a job at the magazine as a writer. Yun-sik sees himself as a mentor to Won-sang, who becomes his trus...