A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2003
• 128m

During the 1931 occupation of Shanghai by Japan's armed forces, a Chinese resistance group known as Purple Butterfly plot the assassination of Yamamoto, the head of the invading country's secret service. Ding Hui who works for the...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 29m

A former worker who had been dismissed by the company′s adjustment policy and his family are living in hardship. The man is trying to slowly overcome wounds in his body and heart that he acquired while fighting against the company...

World Cinema

• Morocco,France
• 2003
• 112m

Shot entirely in Morocco and Marrakech, Jacques Doillon′s new film is another of his powerful studies of adolescence. Raja, a beautiful young Moroccan woman, lives life on the streets where she′s constantly hassled by her opportun...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2003
• 83min

Nobuhiro Yamashita′s films have a unique sense of humor. Just like in his previous film No One′s Ark, he again makes us smile rather than laugh out loud in Ramblers with his own style. Most of his characters are losers who try har...

World Cinema

• Denmark
• 2003
• 89m

Aimee is in Copenhagen for her husband August′s book launch. August leaves Aimee alone on their first night to go and write in solitude. Aimee takes to the streets on her own. Photographer Alex and his girlfriend Simone are headin...

Wide Angle

• Afghanistan,Canada
• 2003
• 65min

For those audiences that remember Mohsen Makhmalbaf′s Kandahar, Return to Kandahar will be even more interesting. Nelofer Pa?ira, the documentary producer and Canadian journalist is the leading actress of Kandahar and she leads he...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2003
• 110min

In Japanese independent films, limits don′t seem to exist, like in a wide mud flat. No matter how deep you dig, the bottom is always impossible to reach. As such, sometimes people would get their feet hurt on the street, but also ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2003
• 90min

Robinson′s Crusoe depicts the deep emptiness that a man living in Taipei experiences. The director pays keen attention to the disrupted city life like his senior directors Tsai Ming-liang or Edward Yang in the Taiwanese new wave c...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 30m

Living in the suburbs of New York, Jacek is a timid and introspective guy who one day meets his ideal woman whom he can′t help falling in love with. But no matter what he does to woo her, his sincerity is not accepted and to prove...

World Cinema

• Hungary,Italy
• 2003
• 98m

Is it possible to smile in the face of death? Would anyone have the nerve to tweak death′s ear?In the Budapest of 1944, the Jewish residents of the Hungarian capital helplessly await their tragic fate. But one house in the trouble...