Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 106min

CMPC produced several blockbuster movies in the early 80s, and yet the box-office profit was poor. I proposed for four new directors to make a film, and I assured CMPC that it wouldn’t a big loss even if it failed. I asked Tao Dec...

Wide Angle

• Sweden
• 2002
• 40min

A conversation with Ingmar Bergman, honorary president for Goteborg Film Festival, with its current director (Bergdahl) about films, filmmakers, Strindberg, ageing and a host of other topics. To quote Bergdahl: “In November 2001, ...

World Cinema

• Turkey
• 2002
• 105min

Istanbul. After losing her Kurdish husband to political persecution, the widow Sukran is very careful how she brings up her only son Veysel, determined to keep him away from the kind of activities that led to his father’s death. B...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 19min

In the 1st episode, Mermaid, a female customer and a male vendor argue about a mermaid fish that appears in the village market. In Flower A woman locked up in a restricted area conceives a flower, and a monster appears to get a ho...

Open Cinema

• Korea
• 2002
• 119 min

Two convicts on the special clemency list escape from prison without knowledge of their impending release. To conceal the jailbreak, the prison warden sends out a team of men whose mission is to secretly escort the fugitives back ...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2002
• 110min

The short film is neither a preparation stage for a feature film nor a mere exercise for the director. In order to draw the public’s attention to short films, in May of 2002, seven well recognized Japanese filmmakers produced and ...

The Critics` Week

• Mexico,Spain
• 2002
• 130min

The film Japon′s director, Carlos Reygadas, seems to believe that film is a visual rather than a story-telling medium. The majestic and gloomy scenery of Mexico as captured by the film is hard to erase. Just as in the films of And...

New Current

• Korea
• 2002
• 123min

Graduate student Won-sang is dumped by his girlfriend. When he finds out that she was seeing Yun-sik, a magazine editor, he gets a job at the magazine as a writer. Yun-sik sees himself as a mentor to Won-sang, who becomes his trus...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran,Japan
• 2002
• 101min

Three old men suddenly hop into an old car and head out on a trip. Jobless and filled with memories, the three old men embark on a journey for the sake of one’s hometown, one’s lost love, and for friendship. To make money for the ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2002
• 103min

A new film by Ann Hui, Hong Kong’s most renowned New Wave woman director, known for such films as Boat People and Song of the Exile, The original title of this film, Man Forties, suggests that it is a sequel to her earlier 1995 fi...