World Cinema

• Colombia
• 2002
• 92min

In a frenzy, actor Santiago Miranda storms out of the taping of the national soap opera, The Loves of the Liberator based on the life of the great South American hero, Simon Bolivar. What prompts Miranda’s fury is the script, whic...

New Current

• Japan
• 2002
• 118min

Border Line is a film by Korean-Japanese director Lee Sang-il, a graduate from Japan’s Moving Image Academy. His previous film, Blue Chong, was about a third generation Korean-Japanese attending a North Korean sponsored school. Bo...

New Current

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 90 min

Chang Duo Chiang is a dish the film’s main character eats everyday. Brave 20 opens with the meticulous process of Brave 20 being made. As each ingredient is added and becomes transformed into a tasty dish, the film seems to be hin...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 109min

Brain is an elementary school teacher, recently fired for his improper political beliefs. He becomes the pawn used to convince the locals that a joint US-Taiwan military manoeuvre will be good for the area, and so he goes about tr...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2002
• 84min

Paul can’t seem to escape the dreariness of small-town life, and his decision to do military service, motivated only by a desire to spite his left-wing family, only makes his situation worse. One day he goes AWOL. On arriving hom...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 16min

A female cab driver, Debs finds herself being immensely attracted to a waitress, Mel. And for the first time in her life, she starts to reconsider her own sexual identity. It seems that she is fearful to accept her true urges. The...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2002
• 23min

A prisoner of the war between Iran and Iraq, ‘I’ has been writing a letter to his son whom he has never seen for the 18 years. Finally, ‘I’ was placed on the list of prisoners to be released; however, he feels insecure. This film ...

World Cinema

• France,Spain,Belgium
• 2002
• 130min

During a bullfight, a young matador is gored and the bull, Romero, killed. That is the beginning rather than the end of this tale, however, which actually explores what happens to a variety of people all over Europe who receive di...

World Cinema

• Canada,France
• 2002
• 115min

Alice, a seismologist working in Tokyo, is sent to a small town on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River to observe a peculiar phenomenon: the complete cessation of the tidal cycle. No more low tides, no more high tides. To th...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 21min

A family lives by a shooting range, raising cows. Both the aunt and the boy’s dog are pregnant, and the sound of the shots nearby annoys them immensely. Whenever his uncle and his wife--an affectionate couple-go into their room, t...