World Cinema

• France,Israel
• 2002
• 100min

It is early May in 1948, a few weeks before the creation of the independent state of Israel. The story follows a boatload of Jewish refugees emigrating from Europe after the Holocaust. Aboard their ship, the Kedma, the men and wom...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2002
• 85min

Khaled is a resourceful 10-year-old boy surviving in the inner city of Toronto. He shares an apartment with his chain-smoking mother, helping her out with the daily chores as she becomes too ill to do them herself. Life in school...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 6min

A little girl who is tired of her mother taking her younger brother′s side all the time, locks herself in a toilet. However, after hours of scribbling on the wall and toying around with toilet paper, the room starts to appear frig...

Open Cinema

• Thailand
• 2002
• 90min

Based on classical Thai literature, the film is a magical, tragic love story based on the life and times of a strong warrior, Kun Pan. During a time of rebellion, Pan’s archenemy and rival for Pimpilalai’s love, convinces the king...

World Cinema

• Latvia
• 2002
• 90min

Nine-year-old Dauka longs for his father, a sailor, to return from the sea. His mother Ilga finds herself unable to tell him and his sister Liga the truth: their father has died. Ilga loved her deceased husband and cannot resign h...

The Critics` Week

• Kurdistan
• 2002
• 94min

A girl with sadness and pain on her face is working in a desolate village. A funeral procession is passing her by, and an old man indifferently plays the flute day or night. And an endless pile of dead men and women on the grounds...

World Cinema

• Sweden
• 2002
• 109min

16 year old Lilya lives in a dreary suburb somewhere in the former Soviet Union. Her mother has moved to the US with a new man and Lilya is looking forward to joining them. But as time goes by and no letters or money arrive from h...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 114min

Ms. Chen is a typical Taipei working housewife. She has a rebellious teenaged daughter obsessed with a teacher, a philandering husband dallying with a neighbour and an allegedly senile mother-in-law who actually just craves some a...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2002
• 6min

Loon Dreaming opens with us seeing the world through the eyes of one of these spectacular birds. The film is an experimental meditation on existence and extinction. The artistry of director Iriz Paabo and her creative use of digit...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 97min

Those who live a life of loneliness often do not know a way to escape their solitude. Loneliness becomes such vital parts of their beings that the only way to escape it is to stop breathing. Completely devoid of any passion, they ...