Wide Angle

• Finland
• 2003
• 3m

Opened in 1989, Mangyongdae Schoolchildren′s Palace is a comprehensive center of after-school education which can accommodate more than 5000 students a day. Take a journey through the more than 200 study and activity rooms, an ind...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2003
• 70min

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2003
• 92min

From the 5th generation filmmakers to the recent Independent filmmakers, there has not been a film that portrays the darker side of Chinese society as severely as this one, in which Li Yang shows how poverty lies beneath the rapid...

World Cinema

• Turkey
• 2003
• 110m

Not only does Nuri Bilge Ceylan write and direct his films, he also photographs and edits them. Their composition, pace and lack of overt narrative have elicited comparison to auteurs such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonio...

Critics' Choice

• China
• 2003
• 95min

Sall busy as a cinematographer, Yu Lik-wai has finally completed his second feature as director, a tremulous, dystopian fantasy in some ways reminiscent of the Iranian allegories made under the Shah. A future East Asia is ruled by...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 24m 30sec

Grandma runs out naked and father grabs her and locks her up in the room to no avail. Grandma′s body is continuously bleeding. Gil treats her in silence but what comes back is his father′s beatings. Gil does not understand why thi...

World Cinema

• UK,Italy,France
• 2003
• 115m

In the Paris of 1968 students are out on the streets, and revolution is in the air. Teenage siblings Theo and Isabelle befriend Matthew, an American student living in Paris. All three of them are fanatical cinephiles, and they spe...

Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2003
• 96min

In Expectation won the "New Currents Award′ at the 1st PIFF in 1996 and received critical acclaim for improving the quality of Chinese independent films during the mid 90s with the exquisite combination of realist style and in-dep...

Wide Angle

• Netherlands
• 2003
• 2min

Through the centuries, innumerable armies occupied the fertile clay soil on the coast of the river Meuse.

Wide Angle

• Venezuela
• 2003
• 13m

In a small town in the middle of nowhere, basket weaver Miguelina waits for her husband Jose to return. Some of her neighbors start blaming her for the drought and the death of their animals. They think she might be possessed by...