A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand,Japan
• 2003
• 96min

In the belly of Bangkok's underworld, in a dilapidated hotel, four strangers' lives are about to change...forever. As fate spins its strange web, the destinies of a desperate drug dealer, a young runaway, a beautiful assassin and...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 14m

Through the familiar English language learning process such as memorizing the alphabet, words, writing, and reading, the film shows the loss of historical identity in post-colonial society. "English" is a form of power rather tha...

Wide Angle

• Ukraina
• 2003
• 9m

Tram number 9 rumbles through town. People get on and others get off. Conversations are begun and then again.The talk is of last night′s episode in a television series; of illness; of one′s memories of glorious battles; of the pri...

World Cinema

• Netherlands,UK
• 2003
• 123m

This sweeping epic about the life and times of Tulse Luper stretches from the discovery of Uranium in 1928 to the end of the Cold Warin 1989. Luper, a peripatetic writer and project-maker, is caught in a life of prisons. There are...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2003
• 125m

A man about to get married sees the images of a dead child. The only other person who can also see these images is the shaman′s daughter, who is accused of killing her own child. By meeting this woman, the man confronts the past h...

Wide Angle

• Sweden
• 2003
• 7min

It is the middle of the night and a woman (celebrated Swedish actress Lena Endre) is conducting an important telephone call. Director Gunnar Bergdahl describes his short film thus, "One story, one shot. This film tries to investi...

Wide Angle

• Sweden
• 2003
• 10min

In the 1970s Swedish-born Jewish photographer Esaias Baitel immersed himself in a Parisian suburb where motor bikes, rock and roll, and swastikas go hand in hand. Keeping his Jewishness secret he did not find lost or mislead youth...

Wide Angle

• Denmark
• 2003
• 31min

Unemployed 35-year-old Lars Hansen is sent on a retraining scheme, but his file gets mixed up with that of El Hassan, a Pakistani immigrant. While trying to clarify his identity, Lars discovers that Ida - a woman he once loved - i...

Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2003
• 135min

World Cinema

• France,Germany,Austria
• 2003
• 113m

When Anna and her family arrive at their country home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation, which leaves her husband dead, is just the beginning of a painful learning process. A violent, unexplained event has ha...