Wide Angle

• Park Jinoh
• 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 ...

Korean Panorama

• Jang Sun-Woo
• Korea
• 2002
• 124min

A young man smitten by a young girl at a neighborhood video parlor logs into a strange electronic game where player wins if he or she freezes a little match seller to death. It is further complicated by the fact that little match ...

Special Programs in Focus

• KIM Soo-yong
• Korea
• 2002
• 91min

Based on the Maupassant’s short story first introduced as “First Love”, but now known as “The Return,” Return of a Man is Kim Soo-yong’s eighth film and his first adaptation. The film simultaneously presents the tragic love of Nam...

Open Cinema

• Takashi Yamazaki
• Japan
• 2002
• 116 min

The “Returner”, Miyamoto, acting on tip-offs from his clients, infiltrates deep into the recesses of the black market, steals big scores of non-traceable cash, then, as quickly as he gets it, hands the money to his clients. He is ...

Korean Panorama

• Kim In Sik
• Korea
• 2002
• 114min

Dae-shik is the leader of a group of homeless people. One day, Suk-won, an ex-stock broker, who left his job after going bankrupt, joins the group. Dae-shik who is gay, falls in love with Suk-won at first sight, but hides his feel...

Wide Angle

• John Webster
• Finland
• 2002
• 60min

Rooms of Shadow and Light, by John Webster, is a documentary set in a brothel in Mumbai, India. A lazy afternoon, the sun is high, and it seems like just another ordinary day for the prostitutes of Mumbai. But as the documentary d...

World Cinema

• Alexander SOKUROV
• Russia
• 2002
• 96min

Invisible to everyone around him, a contemporary filmmaker magically finds himself in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg - back in the early 1700s. He meets a cynical French diplomat from the 19th Century and the men become accomplic...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ichigawa Jun
• Japan
• 2002
• 115min

Set in Japan’s Meiji Era, Ryoma’s Wife is a unique period piece. The film seems to follow the traditions of classical Japanese drama, yet places more focus on aesthetic style accompanied by a modernized musical score. In this sens...

Wide Angle

• Lee Woo Hyeon
• Korea
• 2002
• 21min

To pay for his mother’s medical payments, a man borrows money from a loan shark and is then beaten for not paying back on time. His father--an incompetent man--pays no attention to his scars, and his girl friend leaves him because...

World Cinema

• Julie Lopes CURVAL
• France
• 2002
• 88min

Cayeux is a small seaside town boasting a large pebble beach. In winter, it’s as deserted as the moon. In summer, however, crowds of holiday-makers and regulars frequent the beach and its colourful huts, lending a much more festiv...