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

• Korea
• 2003
• 80min

As the last film Chung Chang-wha made in Korea, it shows the most complete Chung Chang-wha style action. This is a story about a cold professional killer who goes back and fortn between the two families who fight over the hidden 1...

World Cinema

• Macedonia,Bulgaria
• 2003
• 98m

In 1913, Macedonia was severed into three parts. The tragic fate of the country cruelly marked the life of Katerina, an ordinary woman from the town of Prilep. Katerina tells her story to a television director from Skopje. When sh...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 60m

One day the company handed down old cement trucks to truck drivers and they were made owners. Although they are given much less rights than other workers, they can’t be protected by any labor law because they are registered as pri...

Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2003
• 89min

Wide Angle

• China
• 2003
• 49m

Paralyzed by a serious illness, a boy is left to believe that there is no hope for him. Although he is only able to communicate by moving his toes, his family believes life is so precious that sacrifices should be made at any cost...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2003
• 59m

In 1993 documentary filmmaker Dai Sil Kim-Gibson released Sa-l-Gu, her powerful film about communities, including Korean-Americans, struggling in the after math of the "L.A Uprising", which violently unfurled during April 1992. In...

Open Cinema

• NewZealand,Germany
• 2003
• 101m

In one New Zealand coastal village, the Maori people claim descent from Paikea, the Whale Rider. A first-born male has assumed the title of Whangara chief for nearly a thousand years. What would happen if a female tried to enter t...

Critics' Choice

• Spain,France
• 2003
• 130m

Whose story is this? Does it belong to an aggravated talking parrot, who witnessed the sudden death of his aging owner Madame Catherine and her subsequent secret burial by Eric the town mechanic?Or could the story be told through ...

World Cinema

• Denmark
• 2003
• 105m

Suicidal but witty Wilbur and his good-hearted older brother Harbour are in their 30s when their father dies and leaves them a run-down second-hand bookshop. Wilbur survives a suicide attempt and goes to the hospital where he meet...

Critics' Choice

• Japan
• 2003
• 108m

The Akechi family looks like a middle-class family. A typical family portrait is featured at the beginning, when daughter Tomoko prepares breakfast. However, as the story progresses, we begin to look deeper into the dark side of t...