Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 61min

Cheng Yu-chieh’s Summer, Dream, which won the ‘best short film award’ at the 2002 Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival, is about a boy who lives in the Taiwan countryside. Hsia Chih is unable to study abroad due to financial problems...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 38min

A summer day, a girl, and violence are three key elements that make up this delightful short film. Shai is a teenage girl who spends the summer working as an employee at a small shop. Either on foot or riding the scooter, our hero...

Open Cinema

• UK
• 2002
• 106min

Liam’s mom, Jean, is in prison but is due to be released in time for his 16th birthday. This time Liam is determined that things will be different. He dreams of a family life he’s never had, which means creating a safe haven beyon...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2002
• 126min

The latest film by Park Chan-wook, who marked 2000 with his commercial hit, Joint Security Area: JSA. This time, though, Park leaves all pop conventions behind and reveals his cinephiliac sensibility and pessimistic views to creat...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 105min

Shu-chen, a young upwardly mobile executive is at the centre of Taipei Story. People making emotional, social and financial demands of her surround her on all sides. Her father is hoping for her assistance with his own failing bus...

Open Cinema

• Spain
• 2002
• 112min

Two men sit together in a theatre, strangers to each other. They are young nurse, Benigno, and writer, Marco. On the stage, The Fairy Queen. The piece is so moving that Marco starts to cry. In the darkness, Benigno can see the gle...

Wide Angle

• Sweden
• 2002
• 4min

What are we doing with our lives? What are we giving to our children? What is it that’s bringing us to the edge? And most important of all: what time is it? This film is an attempt to shed light on these simple questions with the ...

Wide Angle

• France
• 2002
• 13min

A charming princess has been asleep in a neglected old castle for quite some time. She awakes - by mistake - runs out of the castle and hides in the wood, where a whole new life awaits her… (Berlinale)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,Japan
• 2002
• 109min

The Best of Times is a coming-of-age story that combines the depressive sensibility of film noir with conventions of the Taiwanese family melodrama. Wei and Jie are cousins who work as money collectors for the local gang. One day,...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 22min

A woman who has been subjected to domestic violence witnesses her daughter being beaten by her classmate. Angered, she kidnaps the boy and locks him in her house. Although the boy finally escapes the savage violence of the mother ...