Open Cinema

• United States
• 2002
• 95min

Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty and love, was not kind to Toula Portokalos, but Apollo was. Wise Toula’s the shame of her big, boisterous and proudly Greek family: unmarried at thirty. With her stringy hair and thick glasses, Tou...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2002
• 90min

During a holiday on the North Sea coast, Dole meets Hermann and they become very close friends. But this is no ordinary friendship. Dole is an eleven-year-old girl and Hermann is a middle-aged man, married with children of his own...

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong
• 2002
• 75min

After Chow Yun Fat, Jet Li, and Stephen Chow we are about to witness the arrival of a new icon from Hong Kong. My Life as McDull is an animation that bravely sets foot in a world dominated by Hello Kitty, Doraemon, Mickey Mouse, a...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 15min

On Christmas Eve, a little monk who lives deep in the mountain is invited by his friend to a church. The chief priest reluctantly allows him to go to the church for the Christmas ceremony. When the minister offers the special gues...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2002
• 90min

Adopted as a baby in Korea and raised in a provincial German town, Michael has two identities. His friends accept him as one of them, but the mirror reminds Michael everyday of the hole in his biography which nags at him like an o...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 16min

A film about a superman, who doubts his own identity, secludes himself from the world. This comedy parodies old Korean educational films for showing the past achievements of the Superman, and uses old TV cartoon theme songs to evo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2002
• 134min

New Moon is a fictional exploration of historical attitudes. The film starts with subtitles introducing the history of Christianity and Islam in the Phillipines, then displays extreme long shots of Manila’s landscapes. The film es...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2002
• 75min

Night Voyage is the outcome of the reunion of Kim Seung-oak’s screenplay, Yun Chung-hi and Shin Sung-Il’s acting, and Kim Soo-yong’s directing achieving the perfect harmony of 1967’s Mist. Hyun-joo, a bank teller, lives with her c...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2002
• 116min

This film is the story of an ex-boxer who now runs an illegal dogfight ring while working for a loan shark, his girlfriend who dreams of becoming a singer, and a female ex-con-turned-cab driver whose number one worry is paying off...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2002
• 111min

The film begins with a couple walking in a deserted city. Daisuke, whose business in Tokyo had failed, and who had just returned to his old town to make a comeback, and his lover Hisako fill the empty space. Daisuke adheres to a h...