Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2003
• 115m

In this contemporary adaptation of the Korean tradition tale, the film portrays the madness of a young girl abused by her stepmother. It is director Kim Ji-Woon’s third film, and although he is known to have an outstanding ability...

World Cinema

• Morocco,Belgium,France
• 2003
• 124m

It is the first day of Ramadan in 1981 and the people of a small Moroccan village in the Atlas Mountains are preparing for a period of fasting and deprivation. During this time of piety, Amina and her seven year-old son Mehdi move...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 21m 15sec

Two lovers, Chang-No and Sung-Mi are in their early 20s, and they want to have sex as soon as they meet, but neither of them have enough money or time. As they search for a place to have sex, they accidentally find the door of an ...

Wide Angle

• Albania
• 2003
• 20m

As young people emigrate in search of a better future, only the elderly remain in a beautiful village on Albanian south coast. The presence of a baby in this village makes the people very happy. They dedicate their energies to car...

Wide Angle

• Ireland
• 2003
• 54m

A unique film essay on the world-renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. It is the first film to celebrate all aspects of Kiarostami′s artistry: poet, painter, photographer, installation artist, and filmmaker. Taking an analy...

Closing Film

• Korea
• 2003
• 104

A boy has lost his way. Rather than feeling sympathy for him, we fear him. We fear that he might snoop around our house or secretly come inside. The boy is suppressed and driven away from our consciousness. But eventually he retur...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2003
• 65min

Critics' Choice

• China
• 2003
• 95min

Sall busy as a cinematographer, Yu Lik-wai has finally completed his second feature as director, a tremulous, dystopian fantasy in some ways reminiscent of the Iranian allegories made under the Shah. A future East Asia is ruled by...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 8m 50sec

It is the last subway train of the day and it is almost empty and tranquil inside. A drunk man is sprawled on the seat and a woman is looking out the window with a dull look. Like the stillness of the empty train, the woman exudes...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2003
• 108m

AMANDLA!, which means power in the Xhosa language, is a soul-stirring documentary that uses exclusive interviews and rare, never-before-seen film footage to document the vital role that music played in the nearly half-century stru...