Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 17min

One day, a girl′s father dies from an overdose at a subway public toilet. The girl panhandles pretending to be crippled. She spends most of her time at a park chasing pigeons. The only happy memory she has is that of her grandmoth...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2002
• 9min

If it’s true that we are what we eat, then we are having an identity crisis. In Pirouette, an old woman has a simple relationship with her animals - she raises them, loves them, kills them and eats them. With biting wit, filmmaker...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 20min

Anna, who is in love with a character in a film, meets Michelle, whose hobby is photography. Due to her father’s medical bills, Anna cannot watch the films she wants. Michelle, who is always on the look out for something exciting ...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2002
• 74min

Many believe that 9.11 changed the world. But Noam Chomsky, who has been criticizing US world supremacy for years, says it isn’t so. Power and Terror is a documentary composed of lectures and interviews with Chomsky after 9.11. Th...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2002
• 135min

Kang Chul-joong is a reckless, not-too-intelligent cop whose guilt-free tendency for corruption never stopped him from dealing in drugs. Chilling serial murders rack the city and Chul-joong slowly finds himself changing as he foll...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,Korea
• 2002
• 102min

A multinational film shot in India, New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Pusan, with actors from Korea, China, and Japan. The director of the film--which was invited to the Venice International Film Festival--is Fruit Chan, who visit...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 104min

A technique of Tai Chi, the pushing of hands teaches one how to maintain one’s own balance while destroying an opponent’s. Mr. Chu, a retired Tai Chi master, leaves Beijing to live in the United States with his son Alex. When ...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2002
• 95min

In 1931, Molly, 14, her sister Daisy, 8, and their cousin Gracie 10, three ‘half-caste’ children from Western Australia, are taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution. Here they are subject to phys...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 106min

Kang is a high school student who gets involved in a series of absurd chases through the decaying concrete jungle that is Taipei. With little interest in scholastics, Kang hangs around at Shimanding where he meets Ah Tze, a small-...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 12min

Paul, an eight year old boy, is mature and serious. One day, he asks for the most painful experience in his life, and his request is answered. After a series of surreal and tragic incidences, Paul realizes that his beloved mother ...