A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2003
• 86min

The characters in Fu Bo witness the borderline between life and death everyday. The life of Uncle Fu, a coroner estranged from his wife and son, is more closely related to the dead than the living. Tragically enough, Uncle Fu enco...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2003
• 30min

On the street called Junk Alley lives a man named Stain, living with a huge cat and unusual friends. One day he meets the girl of his dreams. Now his unsparing efforts to confess his love begin. The film displays everything about...

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 2003
• 110min

What makes Germany so distinctly German?Ten experts from ten different countries offer not only a stranger′s point of view, but also the expertise of their particular field. The Russian author Wladimir Kaminer offers his interpret...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2003
• 112min

Get Up deals with the hilarious happenings related to a James Brown, ′the King of Soul′, concert. The director Izutsu Kazuyuki, famous for Nodojiman, which portrayed the contestants for a TV singing contest, has wished to make a f...

Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2003
• 85min

Should I stay or should I go? The dilemma in the minds of many young Chinese found one of its sharpest definitions in cinematographer Wu Di′s debut feature as a director. It haunts the hopelessly indecisive Ma Lixin, who breeds an...

Open Cinema

• Germany
• 2003
• 118m

October 1989 was a bad time to fall into a coma if you lived in East Germany and this is precisely what happens to Alex′s proudly socialist mother. Teenage Alex has a big problem on his hands when she suddenly regains consciousnes...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2003
• 82min

Dealing with the two hours on the eve of a theater closing, the film can be seen as a hymn to old-style cinemas. The film begins with the last screening in an old 1000-seat theater, soon to be replaced by a new multiplex. Signific...

Special Programs in Focus

• Afghanistan
• 2003
• 11min

Basir, a young Afghan refugee living in Iran, sees a television program about the plight of his fellow countrymen which affects him deeply. Later, when he goes to the store to buy a vase for a flowering plant, he decides to donat...

World Cinema

• Netherlands
• 2003
• 103m

One winter′s day Jacob and his sister Marie are left behind in the woods by their unemployed father. In his coat Jacob finds a note from his mother urging them to go to their uncle in Spain. They arrive in Spain only to find that ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Sweden
• 2003
• 156min

Knut Hamsun, the Norwegian writer and Nobel prize-winner was a widely admired and passionate man. Hamsun actively supported the occupation of his country by the Nazisin World War II because he believes it will protect his people f...