Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!

• Korea
• 2003
• 83min

This is the first film Chung made with the Shaw Brothers. It was the first Hong Kong film to be exported to Europe and the success of the film provided a firm ground for Chung to continue working in Hong Kong. He included some of ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Canada
• 2003
• 102m

Atom Egoyan′s fourth feature film, The Adjuster, is a haunting drama of emotional isolation and twisted morality. Elias Koteas is Noah Render, an insurance adjuster who doesn′t so much live his life as manage it-much like his atte...

World Cinema

• Netherlands
• 2003
• 72m

In a mixture of Brechtian musical elements, special archive material and a surrealistic theatrical atmosphere, The Arm of Jesus tells the story of Hendrik Yzermans, a European miner who steals his colleague′s wages to pay for a ti...

Special Programs in Focus

• Canada,France
• 2003
• 99m

Remy, divorced and in his early fifties, becomes urgently hospitalized. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their son Sebastien to come home from London where he now lives. Sebastien hesitates; he and his father haven′t had much to say to o...

Special Programs in Focus

• Canada
• 2003
• 101m

The Decline of the American Empire is a brilliant black comedy of manners constructed around a series of satiric and witty conversations about sex, love and life between several Montreal academics. The men, Remy, Pierre, Claude, a...

World Cinema

• UK,Italy,France
• 2003
• 115m

In the Paris of 1968 students are out on the streets, and revolution is in the air. Teenage siblings Theo and Isabelle befriend Matthew, an American student living in Paris. All three of them are fanatical cinephiles, and they spe...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2003
• 6min

A dream-like narration about a farmer and a cow.

Special Programs in Focus

• Canada
• 2003
• 174m

The Fast Runner is an epic saga based on an ancient Inuit legend set in the eastern arctic wilderness near Igloolik at the dawn of the first millennium. Evil in the form of an unknown shaman divides a small nomadic community when ...

Wide Angle

• Belarus
• 2003
• 16m

Attitudes to the distant and recent past, and the reality and quality of contemporary life in Belarus are interpreted through movement and expression by mime artist Viacheslav Inozemtsev. An actor and director at the InZest Pantom...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 132min

In a small village in Turkey, the men play while the women work. In this village, short pants are not allowed to be worn, so the soccer players must tie up their long skirts which label them as the ‘water jar’ soccer team. However...