Critics' Choice

• Russia
• 2003
• 96m

Australia has Muriel; the U.K., Bridget Jones. Now Russia has a charming, marriage-obsessed heroine of its own. Lilly is a 30-something zaftig redhead from the provinces. She toils long hours in a poultry slaughterhouse and cares ...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2003
• 93m

While taking a short cut, Philip, a successful car salesman from Wolfsburg, accidentally knocks a boy off his bicycle. He missed seeing the child because he was arguing with his girlfriend on the telephone. Philip hesitates for a ...

Special Programs in Focus

• China,Hong Kong
• 2003
• 105min

World Cinema

• UK
• 2003
• 94m

In the working class atmosphere of 1950s Glasgow, a rootless young drifter named Joe finds work on a barge owned by the down-to-earth Les and his enigmatic wife Ella. One afternoon Joe and Les happen upon the corpse of a young wom...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2003
• 115min

Takeshi Kitano is back in town, this time with a historical film. An encounter with the legendary director is enough to make Zatochi worth watching. Takeshi Kitano made his way into Japanese film history, etching himself into it. ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 90min

In 1999, the year before the millennium, Hei-shu, a long-term unemployed man, finally gets a job in a local musical band performing at funerals and weddings. One day, Hei-shu’s cat is missing. At about the same time, a new neighbo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2002
• 108min

After the death of his beloved, rich nobleman Nguyen feels he has nothing to live for. He becomes delirious with grief, taking out his miseries on the people. Master musician Tam attempts to bring Nguyen back to happiness by setti...

Open Cinema

• France
• 2002
• 135min

11′ 09″ 01 - September 11 is a movie composed of 11 short films, shot by culturally diverse international filmmakers. One common inspiration: the events of September 11th, 2001 in New York, and their aftermath. Artistic liberty wa...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2002
• 25min

15 is a story about three delinquent teenagers who are trying to discover their identities in a fast developing society. The real street kids that appear on the screen add realism to this film. They feel that violence and corrupti...

Open Cinema

• UK
• 2002
• 115 min

Manchester, 1976: Cambridge-educated Tony Wilson, a Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, and proceed to...