Wide Angle

• Serbia and Montenegro
• 2003
• 7min

A fox chases a rabbit the frozen forest. To say more would ruin the surprises in this fresh and original exercise in suspense which captured the first prize in the Cinefondation competition at the 2003 cannes Film Festival.

Special Programs in Focus

• Afghanistan
• 2003
• 24min

A little girl in an Afghan village loves her family′s goat because it provides milk for her sick brother. A visiting Mullah takes a liking to the goat and tries to think of a way he can have its meat. He tells the father, "You s...

Special Programs in Focus

• Canada
• 2003
• 99m

Whentheimpossible,thearchaic,theobtuseandtheincestuousconvergeoverCanadaonlyonefilm-makercanberesponsible:Winnipeg′sGuyMaddin.DuringthefullblackbloomoftheGreatDepression,failedBroadwayimpresarioChesterKentandhisamnesiacandnymphoma...

Critics' Choice

• United States,Iceland
• 2003
• 82m

Frustrated by life in a small lcelandic town dominated by a fish factory, Svavva makes a decision to move to Reykjavik. Svavva′s boyfriend Aggi and her subdued sister Hildur are not convinced of the wisdom of such a move. Accordin...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 54m

Watching the trains come in, making sure that they are properly connected, and taking care of the passengers’ needs inside a moving train are tasks that appear to be simple but not many people know that they can be very dangerous ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Canada
• 2003
• 108m

In the little Quebecois harbour village of St-Marie-La-Mauderne, the vanishing fish stooke have plummeted a once thriving community into financial decline, forcing the fishermen to rely on govemment welfare. When a multinational c...

Special Programs in Focus

• Afghanistan
• 2003
• 17min

Young Shabnam lives a life of solitude and loneliness in the ruins of Kabul with other parentless children. She would like to live in the already crowded orphanage but the director of the institution explains that other more needy...

Wide Angle

• Norway,China
• 2003
• 60m

China 2002. In this neon-decorated land of opportunities there are 400 million young people with aspirations. China may have changed since Chairman Mao′s day, but how much freedom do people really have?If art mirrors society, then...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Pakistan,Germany,France
• 2003
• 99min

A feud between Muslims and Sikhs has kept the two nations at war with each other since the country gained independence from Britain. They raped women of opposing religion and then forced them to convert. These female victims were ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 14m

A woman is walking slowly and silently. As she walks tiredly from life itself, what stops her is a man with no legs lying on the streets. She covers him with her clothes and then starts walking again. The slow pace of the camera′s...