Wide Angle

• Hong Kong
• 2003
• 7min

After saying farewell to his two young children at the airport, a man meets a shadowy stranger who urges him to take revenge on his divorced wife and regain custody of his children. After a fight, the man strangles the stranger.....

Open Cinema

• India
• 2003
• 90min

In the ancient 10th century Indian Kingdom of Mala, the King and Qieen are asked to carry out an unpleasant ′request′ of the senate committee. Due to the King′s impotence, the Queen is ordered to sleep with another man to conceiv...

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

• Korea
• 2003
• 95min

Ga Soo-do conspires to take over power with the aid of the little king and in order to rid of his opponent, Song Won is falsely charged with a crime. The only way Song Won can live is to receive the King′s direct pardon in the for...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2003
• 108m

AMANDLA!, which means power in the Xhosa language, is a soul-stirring documentary that uses exclusive interviews and rare, never-before-seen film footage to document the vital role that music played in the nearly half-century stru...

World Cinema

• Russia,Germany,France,Italy,Netherlands
• 2003
• 84m

A father and son live together in a rooftop apartment that thanks to their haunting memories and personal rituals is more like their own private world. So enmeshed have they become that sometimes they seem more like brothers than ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2003
• 80min

What makes a boy want to sell his body? Cui Zi′en, the doyen of Queer Chinese Cinema, here turns away from relatively high-flown queer theory towards street-level realities. But it′s not entirety a theory-free zone: the main prota...

Closing Film

• Korea
• 2003
• 104

A boy has lost his way. Rather than feeling sympathy for him, we fear him. We fear that he might snoop around our house or secretly come inside. The boy is suppressed and driven away from our consciousness. But eventually he retur...

Special Programs in Focus

• Canada
• 2003
• 174m

The Fast Runner is an epic saga based on an ancient Inuit legend set in the eastern arctic wilderness near Igloolik at the dawn of the first millennium. Evil in the form of an unknown shaman divides a small nomadic community when ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2003
• 65min

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2003
• 82min

Dealing with the two hours on the eve of a theater closing, the film can be seen as a hymn to old-style cinemas. The film begins with the last screening in an old 1000-seat theater, soon to be replaced by a new multiplex. Signific...