A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2002
• 93min

The late 19th century figure Jose Rizal is a national hero of the Philippines. He was a renowned artist, but he is better known as the spiritual leader of the national movement against the colonial domination of Spain and the Cath...

Open Cinema

• France
• 2002
• 103 min

An isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France. A family is gathered for the holiday season. But there will be no celebration - their beloved patriarch has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 123min

Kun-cheng lives in a secluded cottage in the middle of nowhere with his parents, his young wife and their daughter. With familial expectations coming to bear on him, he only has his loving wife Ah Shiu as refuge. After being tragi...

World Cinema

• Venezuela,Canada,Spain
• 2002
• 93min

Looking for a way to ease the grief caused by the death of his wife, Tomas Alonso gives his son the only photograph of his mother - a youthful portrait taken on the shore of a distant ocean. Santiago becomes intrigued with this my...

The Critics` Week

• Argentina,Spain
• 2002
• 94min

What Elsa wants is to have some money, to work and live at a place where she wants, and to live happily ever after with her loved one. This is her definition of happiness. Although her family and friends live in Argentina, she lea...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2002
• 96min

The casting of amateur actors, shifting between fiction and reality, and the format of a road movie are some of the elements that place A Marooned in Iraq squarely in the tradition of Iranian cinema with which we have become famil...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2002
• 132min

A tale about a girl who finds out on her 9th birthday that she had been adopted, and who heads to a war-torn Sri Lanka in search of her birth parents. This film is a moving melodrama depicting the brutal, human costs of war. Amudh...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2002
• 91min

A Seashore Village is the one of Kim Soo-yong’s literary films, adapted from Oh Young-soo’s same titled short story. It lyrically describes lives of women living in untainted village by the sea. Sang-soo, a village hoodlum pursues...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2002
• 77min

Rinko Tatsumi is a quiet, reserved woman in her mid-thirties. She works as an emergency phone counselor at the county mental health center. She is very capable and her husband Shigehiko is an important businessman. They have no ch...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2002
• 86min

Though A Tale of a Naughty Girl is set in 1969, just as man is about to walk on the moon, Dasgupta has fashioned a timeless, indeed universal tale that speaks to women and men everywhere. With a finely-honed poetic sensibility, Da...