Wide Angle

• Leiji MATSUMOTO,Kazuhisa TAKENOUCHI
• Japan
• 2003
• 65min

A four-member rock band singing on a stage of a green alien planet is kidnapped. The members are brain washed into becoming ′humans′, and become superstars on Earth. But, thanks to a hero, they find their way back to their home pl...

Korean Panorama

• Gina KIM
• Korea
• 2003
• 78m

This film, divided into two parts, is about two women Ga-in and Do-hee. The former has an eating disorder and the latter is going to have a baby out-of-wedlock. By keeping herself locked in her room, Ga-in tries to control her bod...

World Cinema

• Dušan MILIĆ
• Germany,Serbia and Montenegro,Italy
• 2003
• 92m

In this frenetically paced farce, Jagoda (whose name means strawberry) is a checkout clerk at an American-style grocery store in Belgrade celebrating its grand opening. When a brazen co-worker steals her customer and potential dat...

Wide Angle

• Hidenori INOUE,Eiki TAKAHASHI,Junji KOJIMA,Kouki TANGE
• Japan
• 2003
• 103m

World Cinema

• Ra`anan ALEXANDROWICZ
• Israel
• 2003
• 88m

This charming, fable-like first feature from accomplished documentarist Ra′anan Alexandrowicz provides an ironic portrait of contemporary Israeli society as seen through the eyes of a naive foreigner. In the imaginary African vill...

World Cinema

• Sue BROOKS
• Australia
• 2003
• 107m

Sandy is a geologist who wants to go places. Fast. And she does, but not exactly where she intended. Together with her business partner Baird, she runs a software company which means she has to play nursemaid to Hiromitsu a Japane...

Wide Angle

• Ulrich SEIDL
• Austria
• 2003
• 87min

A film as a confessional. Commissioned by European television, this documentary follows six believers who speak very personally to Jesus. One is a student who attends mass every day against his parents′ wishes. He tells Jesus all ...

Wide Angle

• Hana MAKHAMALBAF
• Iran
• 2003
• 60min

Fourteen-year-old Hana Makhmalbaf expresses her views about post-Taliban Afghanistan by documenting the production process of At Five in the Afternoon, a film directed by her older sister Samira Makhmalbaf. That is how she began m...

Special Programs in Focus

• Mirwais REKAB
• Afghanistan
• 2003
• 15min

Set in Afghanistan in the days prior to the Taliban take over, the story is about a a youth who rescues film reels from the projection booths of destroyed theaters and shows them in his mobile projection cart. During these hard an...

World Cinema

• Boris KHLEBNIKOV,Alexei POPOGREBSKY
• Russia
• 2003
• 104m

When their life in Moscow hits rock bottom, a man and his 11-year old son set off for a 1000-km journey to the sea. For Father, the journey is an attempt to restore self-respect and win back the trust of his son. For the boy, the ...