New Currents

• China
• 2003
• 75min

Living a tranquil life in the serene and beautiful city of Hangzhou, Zhuzi and his fiancee Linshan are content. However with the uncharacteristic early arrival of the cold rainy season, Zhuzi suddenly becomes uncomfortable and ext...

Wide Angle

• Albania
• 2003
• 20m

As young people emigrate in search of a better future, only the elderly remain in a beautiful village on Albanian south coast. The presence of a baby in this village makes the people very happy. They dedicate their energies to car...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2003
• 93m

While taking a short cut, Philip, a successful car salesman from Wolfsburg, accidentally knocks a boy off his bicycle. He missed seeing the child because he was arguing with his girlfriend on the telephone. Philip hesitates for a ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2003
• 103m

This is director Kim Ki-Duk’s 9th film and the movie deals with such subjects as desire, retribution for the deeds of a former world, and reincarnation in which they are displayed with a touch of lyricism. The setting takes place ...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2003
• 80min

An elegant eighty-year-old lady is reading news paper articles on a computer monitor. She tells us about the springtime of her life when she was in her twenties in a calm voice and shows us around the spaces of Taiwan of those day...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2003
• 90min

In China a draught visits to a little town called Sahahyang in century. The villagers and their leader hold ritual for rain. Their desperate prayer gets an answer, but the answer is more than they’re hoping for. While they’re havi...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 2003
• 82min

In many Taiwanese films, Taipei has been described as a gloomy city. The Missing is another Taiwanese film to describe this city as a dystopia. Instead of a complicated narrative, the film describes a picture of dystopia through i...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2003
• 97min

Crimson Gold opens with a striking scene of a jewelry shop robbery that ends In failure. A robber kills the shop′s owner and then shoots himself In the head. This cruel scene that the camera captures in a single take in fact is fa...

World Cinema

• Latvia
• 2003
• 88m

As she demonstrated in her award-winning shorts and her first feature, The Shoe(1998), Latvian filmmaker Laila Pakalnina has a distinctive approach. Her new film, which is her first in color, is a minimalist production that she de...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 29m

A former worker who had been dismissed by the company′s adjustment policy and his family are living in hardship. The man is trying to slowly overcome wounds in his body and heart that he acquired while fighting against the company...