The Critics` Week

• Germany
• 2002
• 90min

Following the short films Summer at Horlachen(1999) and I’ll Wait on You Hand and Foot(2000), The Longing is the last in the series of the director’s films on desire. It is also the director’s first feature-length film. In a quiet...

Open Cinema

• UK
• 2002
• 119min

Rural Ireland, 1964. Four young women are condemned by church and family to the brutal, dehumanizing nightmare that is life in a Magdalene Asylum. They are there to atone for their sins: the sin of being an unmarried mother, of be...

World Cinema

• France
• 2002
• 90min

In a medium-sized town towards the end of the day, a train pulls in and a solitary figure gets out. His name is Milan, a man with a bag over one shoulder that is as worn and shabby as its owner. While looking for some fizzy aspiri...

World Cinema

• Finland
• 2002
• 97min

The Man Without a Past details the misadventures of tired-faced, middle-aged M (Markku Peltola), who, upon arriving in Helsinki, is brutally mugged, taken to hospital and proclaimed dead - but who just as suddenly sits up, strips ...

New Current

• China
• 2002
• 90 min

A small-town policeman, 42-year-old Ma Shan, wakes up one morning to discover that his gun is missing. In China, an officer who loses his gun can be sent to prison for up to three years. Believing he must have lost it at a wedding...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 15min

A man is living a rather boring life until he receives a package addressed to someone else. After that, his name changes and he starts to lead a completely different life. When another package with yet another name arrives, he jov...

Wide Angle

• Czech Republic
• 2002
• 19min

Whether you want it or not, a childhood trauma can affect your whole life. And whether you want it or not, your whole life can affect your relationships with long time friends. The Pirate is a film about a pirate, his trauma and a...

New Current

• India
• 2002
• 89 min

The Rite... A Passion is the directorial debut from Indian film critic K.N.T. Sastry. The film received the Indira Gandhi Award for the Best First Feature Film. Subbaiah is a priest who goes from funeral to funeral, to study and p...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 106min

The Rule of the Game concerns several individuals faithful to their desires. Killer, who has a restaurant-worker wife and a son, would like to score big one day and live a different life. Two bums, who occasionally work part-time ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 108min

I entered the movie world in ’70s and got to know several directors who had studied abroad and returned in ’80s. I was stunned at the variety of camera techniques openly discussed by these directors. In terms of the Taiwanese New ...