Wide Angle

• Australia
• 2002
• 90min

In the midst of war-ravaged Palestine, the everyday experiences of a hopeful newly wed couple take on particular resonance. In July 2000, while Arafat is in America talking peace, Bassam - a telephone repairman in Cleveland - retu...

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 2002
• 80min

Located somewhere in the middle of nowhere, in the “Ruthenian Bermuda Triangle” between Slovakia, Poland and the Ukraine, is Europe’s only Pop Art Museum. Stanislaw Mucha’s light-hearted documentary traces the roots of America’s...

New Current

• Korea
• 2002
• 110min

A wife is in despair when she finds out about her husband’s infidelity. Out of guilt, the husband decides they will move to the idyllic countryside to console her. There the wife meets an attractive yet pessimistic doctor who draw...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2002
• 46min

Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf takes his digital camera to the border villages between Iran and Afghanistan, where he focuses on children studying in UNICEF classes. Despite the end of the Taliban regime, the director discovers that t...

Wide Angle

• Hungary
• 2002
• 5min

After Rain is a balladic story of a man and a woman and their ending romantic relationship. It is told from the perspective of the female protagonist, the one who wants to break up. The film was made in one day with a budget of 2....

Wide Angle

• Norway
• 2002
• 77min

All about My Father is a documentary about a well-respected medical doctor and transvestite in a small Christian town in Norway. The film is directed by the one person most likely to convey his story with warmth, humor and irony: ...

World Cinema

• Sweden
• 2002
• 88min

Serbandi, a middle-aged man of Middle Eastern background, is in turmoil. He has lost control of the women in his home. They have become ill-tempered and disrespectful, with the result that his attempts to carry out his patriarchal...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2002
• 52min

This documentary tells the appalling tale of sixteen prostitutes murdered in the city of Mashad. These ‘Spider Killings’ were committed by a 39-year-old man, who believed that his acts were righteous. He insisted that prostitutes ...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2002
• 115min

Ararat is a contemporary story of the intertwining paths of two estranged families, and their search for reconciliation and truth. This ‘film within a film’ also follows the production of an epic film about the Armenian genocide b...

Wide Angle

• UK
• 2002
• 12min

A comic morality tale: A woman fleeing in the half-light from a one-night stand encounters a suicidal man in a bizarre situation. She thinks that if she can steal away in the darkness, before the man in the bed wakes up, then last...