Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 49min

From September 1999 to March 2000, the World Cup Stadium was built in Sangam-dong. This documentary is about the struggle of the residents who were ordered to leave their homes. The film depicts a fight between family members rath...

World Cinema

• Iceland,Denmark
• 2002
• 105min

In 1953, Freya, an extremely beautiful Icelandic woman in her mid-20s, comes back from America. She married an American serviceman during the war and moved with him to the US, but now she is back, a widow. She settles down with he...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 23min

The Skywalk Is Gone is a short film which is an extension of the director’s 2001 feature, What Time Is It There?. Shiang-chyi is wandering about Taipei Main Station without a fixed purpose. But the skywalk and the watch seller, Hs...

The Critics` Week

• Belgium
• 2002
• 103min

Understanding the film The Son is like solving a mystery. The first part of the film concentrates on showing the hard labor of the main character, Olivier. Olivier is a carpenter who teaches vocational education to youths at a cab...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2002
• 8min

A doctor is making his way through the corridors of a vast medieval hospital. He enters the X-ray room, where we catch a glimpse of the process as performed five hundred years ago. He then continues into the operating theatre, whe...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2002
• 101min

Filip is torn by doubt. He wants to avoid becoming average, one of the many rats in the race for material wealth. He is seriously thinking about entering a monastery. Hanka attends night school and earns a marginal living as a dre...

New Current

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 103 min

The Trigger, the directorial debut from Alex Yang, seems definitely to follow the traditions of Taiwanese cinema associated with the likes of Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, etc. Just as in the films by these directors, the storylin...

World Cinema

• France,Portugal
• 2002
• 133min

Amazingly prolific, 93-year-old Manoel de Oliveira returns with a seductive, tangled saga set on a genteel Portuguese manor. Wealthy scion, Antonio, and Jose, the housekeeper’s son, have grown up practically as brothers. Jose has ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2002
• 87min

A young city boy is sent to live with his 70-ish grandmother who lives deep in the mountains. Bored and disgusted of his mute grandmother and her unsanitary rural surroundings, he either treats the elderly woman with contempt or t...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2002
• 17min

Through this film, we instantly share in a young boy’s nostalgia for his pure love. He leads us to his memories, where he felt love that is as sweet as honey, as high as the sky, as limpid as water, as pleasant as the music, and a...