Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2002
• 105min

God’s Children sends a message of hope from the world’s largest garbage dumps located in the outskirts of Manila. This place, which goes by the name Smokey Mountain, is the home of families who have chosen the life of trash pickin...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 12min

Based on a true story, Green Rose is about Professor Chen Wen-Chen’s mysterious murder. In 1981, Professor Chen was having difficulties with the Kuo Ming Tang, the Chinese Nationalists party which had had continuous military rule ...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2002
• 105min

The place: the not exactly happening city of Frankfurt/Oder, East Germany; the people: two couples in their late thirties, set in their ways, going nowhere. Radio host Chris and his second wife Katrin don’t have much to say to eac...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 95min

Growing Up is the story of Hsiao-pi, and how he comes to the point in his life when he must, in fact, grow up. Hsiao-pi has had a turbulent childhood and youth; Running with a bad crowd and constantly getting into trouble with his...

World Cinema

• Greece
• 2002
• 108min

Elias, a ten year-old boy who lives in Athens in the late ‘60s, suddenly loses his father. The members of the family try, each in his own particular way, to deal with the unexpected event...except for the little boy. He refuses to...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 77min

Year 2000: A story about 11 children from the graduating class at Sakura Moto Nursery, their teacher, and their parents. The kindergarten’s motto is to raise the children to have a multi-cultural mindset, and the children are from...

Wide Angle

• Slovakia
• 2002
• 48min

A documentary about Slovakia’s hard road into the European community. A omnibus of stories from all over Slovakia that reflects views on various phenomena. The motivations of the Slovak people, their notions of daily existence and...

The Critics` Week

• Hungary
• 2002
• 75min

Perhaps we could describe this film as a modern-day silent film aspiring to be free of language and the confines of speech. This highly experimental film by one of the most acclaimed new directors from Hungary suggests--using mont...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2002
• 98min

Zhang Yuan, who has been ceaselessly portraying the everyday occurrences of modern Chinese society, is a director who strives for a ‘spectacle of destruction’. Through the lens of director Zhang Yuan, a surprisingly active energy ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2002
• 108min

Although differing from country to country, it seems that Asia manifests signs of schizophrenia due to its obsession with the West and modernity, losing its social, political, and cultural identity. This is especially true in case...