A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2003
• 90min

Robinson′s Crusoe depicts the deep emptiness that a man living in Taipei experiences. The director pays keen attention to the disrupted city life like his senior directors Tsai Ming-liang or Edward Yang in the Taiwanese new wave c...

World Cinema

• Hungary,Italy
• 2003
• 98m

Is it possible to smile in the face of death? Would anyone have the nerve to tweak death′s ear?In the Budapest of 1944, the Jewish residents of the Hungarian capital helplessly await their tragic fate. But one house in the trouble...

World Cinema

• Denmark
• 2003
• 89m

Aimee is in Copenhagen for her husband August′s book launch. August leaves Aimee alone on their first night to go and write in solitude. Aimee takes to the streets on her own. Photographer Alex and his girlfriend Simone are headin...

Critics' Choice

• Russia
• 2003
• 96m

Australia has Muriel; the U.K., Bridget Jones. Now Russia has a charming, marriage-obsessed heroine of its own. Lilly is a 30-something zaftig redhead from the provinces. She toils long hours in a poultry slaughterhouse and cares ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2003
• 123min

Magnifico depicts the story of a 9-year-old boy whose day is full of endless work. His grandmother ls diagnosed with terminal cancer, his mother limps in exhaustion from carrying his little sister, and his father can′t make enough...

World Cinema

• England
• 2003
• 112m

The Mother offers a thoughtful and ironic reflection on familial imperfections. Sixty-something May and her older husband Toots visit London, where their son Bobby and his wife Helen lead frenetic lives. Bobby′s confused, frustrat...

World Cinema

• Romania,France,Germany
• 2003
• 97m

Maria is a film that presents a destiny. In a desperate situation, a woman chooses prostitution as a last-ditch solution to fend for her children. Beyond the implications of this real case the film also depicts the struggle transi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Canada
• 2003
• 90m

The attractive Agnes receives crushing news at her home in Toronto--her mother Rose is gravely ill. So Agnes decides to return to her small town home of Sydney, Nova Scotia There she encounters her older sister Theresa, an intoler...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2003
• 49m

Paralyzed by a serious illness, a boy is left to believe that there is no hope for him. Although he is only able to communicate by moving his toes, his family believes life is so precious that sacrifices should be made at any cost...

New Currents

• India
• 2003
• 84min

Director Manish Jha says that if the proportion of males and females keeps shifting the way it is today, India will face a horrible future. The imaginary India portrayed in Matrubhoomi: A Nation without Women is a nation where onl...