Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 27min

Having received a letter of dismissal, the railway track repairman puts his daily provision of bread and milk into his bag and goes to work on his last day. He thinks about committing suicide so that he can end his painful days an...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Macao,China
• 2003
• 83min

The introduction for Love Is Not a Sin Is hard to grasp. Is this a love story, or a horror flick? This question, posed at the very beginning of the film, is difficult to answer. Two best friends: Man-Man and Moon. Man-Man mistaken...

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

• Korea
• 2003
• 120m

Soo-nam snlists to fight in the Pacific War as a Japanese amt officer and does not understand his colleagues who insist on being Korea and fight against the Japanese. During a battle in Burma, he meets a Burmese woman guerilla sol...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2003
• 90min

Murali Nair, a master of satire, has created a completely new type of psychological horror film. The life of a rich landowner turns into a nightmare as a wart below his lips grows bigger everyday. By showing how weak and pathetic ...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2003
• 95min

Living in a neigbourhood of immigrants, Azerbajanu young Nazar is obliged to divorce his wife, Reyhaneh, by his insiting relatives. The only thing he can do for his ex-wife is to pay her marriage portion by installments, but he fa...

Critics' Choice

• Japan
• 2003
• 108m

The Akechi family looks like a middle-class family. A typical family portrait is featured at the beginning, when daughter Tomoko prepares breakfast. However, as the story progresses, we begin to look deeper into the dark side of t...

New Currents

• China
• 2003
• 102min

A young peasant named Yasui needs a fortune to save his younger brother, Yachung, who is in prison. Since Yasui is a poor day laborer, he has no way of making enough money to bail out his brother. Then, a pastor and a high school ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2003
• 127m

A tremendous box office hit in Korea, this film also received high criticisms making it one of the most talked about movies in 2003. The film’s idea was based on the real serial killings case that took place in Hwa-Sung, Kyung-Gi ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2003
• 90min

On November 11, 2002, Theys Eluay, the leader of the national Assembly of Papua who had spent all his life fighting for separation from Indonesia, died. His death, full of mystery, is dealt with in this film by Indonesian director...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2003
• 22m

It Happened in a village in Northwest china′s Shanxi Province on the Lunar New Year′s Eve. A group of young people gambled all night long. Gambler Xiao Bin lost absolutely everything that he owned-even his beeper-before he went sh...