Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!

• Korea
• 2003
• 100m

Bonanza is Chung Chang-wha′s earlier film showing a unique style which integrates film noir and family melodrama together. A wandering old man who had left his family ages ago in search of gold mines finally returns with the gold....

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 60m

One day the company handed down old cement trucks to truck drivers and they were made owners. Although they are given much less rights than other workers, they can’t be protected by any labor law because they are registered as pri...

Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2003
• 94min

The landscape where a group of old people bathe in the sun under a wall is very ordinary in the residential areas of Beijing. Yang Lina suddenly stopped while passing by one. She told her accompanying friend that she would like to...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2003
• 6min

A dream-like narration about a farmer and a cow.

Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2003
• 57min

A fascinating documentation of an unconventional performance with the same name, involving actors, dancers and 30 farm workers from poorer regions of Sichuan province who now labor on Beijing building sites. It took place in the p...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 132min

In a small village in Turkey, the men play while the women work. In this village, short pants are not allowed to be worn, so the soccer players must tie up their long skirts which label them as the ‘water jar’ soccer team. However...

Special Programs in Focus

• Sweden
• 2003
• 110m

Jan Troell′s classic film from the late 1960s tells the tale of Martensson is a schoolteacher in Malmo, in southern Sweden. Bitterly aware of his failure to communicate with his pupils, he nevertheless seems unable to bridge the g...

World Cinema

• France,Germany,Austria
• 2003
• 113m

When Anna and her family arrive at their country home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation, which leaves her husband dead, is just the beginning of a painful learning process. A violent, unexplained event has ha...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania,France
• 2003
• 90m

Who are Niki and Flo? Niki is a retired colonel whose son has just died in an accident. His daughter and her husband, the son of Flo, want to leave Romania behind for the United States. Flo is a "jack of all trades" whose tyrannic...

Wide Angle

• Armenia
• 2003
• 62m

The main hero of the film is the documentary maker who shoots with his small crew. He compiles a mosaic of diverse images that is Armenia in the 1990s: child beggars, disabled children abandoned by their parents, lost refugees, a...