New Currents

• India
• 2003
• 84min

Director Manish Jha says that if the proportion of males and females keeps shifting the way it is today, India will face a horrible future. The imaginary India portrayed in Matrubhoomi: A Nation without Women is a nation where onl...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 24m 30sec

Grandma runs out naked and father grabs her and locks her up in the room to no avail. Grandma′s body is continuously bleeding. Gil treats her in silence but what comes back is his father′s beatings. Gil does not understand why thi...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2003
• 127m

A tremendous box office hit in Korea, this film also received high criticisms making it one of the most talked about movies in 2003. The film’s idea was based on the real serial killings case that took place in Hwa-Sung, Kyung-Gi ...

Wide Angle

• Venezuela
• 2003
• 13m

In a small town in the middle of nowhere, basket weaver Miguelina waits for her husband Jose to return. Some of her neighbors start blaming her for the drought and the death of their animals. They think she might be possessed by...

World Cinema

• Spain
• 2003
• 113m

In an industrial city by the sea in northern Spain, Carlos(Spanish chameleon Javier Bardem in a stellar performance) and his unemployed friends search daily for life′s emergency exits. For them life is a tightrope walk along waiti...

World Cinema

• England
• 2003
• 112m

The Mother offers a thoughtful and ironic reflection on familial imperfections. Sixty-something May and her older husband Toots visit London, where their son Bobby and his wife Helen lead frenetic lives. Bobby′s confused, frustrat...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2003
• 18min

This film follows a day in the life of a custodian at a holy shrine, as he performs a funeral service in the morning and a wedding ceremony in the afternoon.

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2003
• 101m

This film is a story about a young man who has a good heart and is a good fighter, even though he is socially incompetent. His nickname, ′mutt boy′, represents his incapable rural lower class status but his constant boldness in de...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2003
• 93m

S is a suicide designer who assists people to commit suicide according to a method of their own choosing. When a man′s loved one kills herself, he decides to investigate and discovers that S is behind the suicide. An adaptation of...

World Cinema

• Estonia,Finland
• 2003
• 90m

In 1918, when Estonia gained independence, the initiative for the new-born state came from the schoolboys. The film follows four months in the life of a group of classmates in the middle of one of the most decisive events in the h...