Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2003
• 84min

This is a debut feature based on the novel which the director himself wrote. Dagang is over forty, unmarried(not by choice), and unemployed. He takes on an orphan in order to receive 200 yuan as child welfare benefit. The film loo...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 8m 50sec

It is the last subway train of the day and it is almost empty and tranquil inside. A drunk man is sprawled on the seat and a woman is looking out the window with a dull look. Like the stillness of the empty train, the woman exudes...

World Cinema

• Scotland,UK
• 2003
• 102m

16 Years of Alcohol is a moving and powerful look at three stages of a man′s life as he searches for hope and redemption. Frankie Mac′s starts out with a dominant father and an alcohol-drenched childhood. Beyond that are his teena...

Special Programs in Focus

• Canada,France
• 2003
• 99m

Remy, divorced and in his early fifties, becomes urgently hospitalized. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their son Sebastien to come home from London where he now lives. Sebastien hesitates; he and his father haven′t had much to say to o...

World Cinema

• Netherlands
• 2003
• 103m

One winter′s day Jacob and his sister Marie are left behind in the woods by their unemployed father. In his coat Jacob finds a note from his mother urging them to go to their uncle in Spain. They arrive in Spain only to find that ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Tajikistan,Germany,Russia,Italy,France
• 2003
• 92min

The Suit is a new film by Bakhtiyar Khudoinazarov, the critically acclaimed director of Luna Papa and Kosh Ba Kosh. Passionate performances by the actors and free-flowing camerawork are the director′s signature style. The surreal ...

Wide Angle

• Norway,China
• 2003
• 60m

China 2002. In this neon-decorated land of opportunities there are 400 million young people with aspirations. China may have changed since Chairman Mao′s day, but how much freedom do people really have?If art mirrors society, then...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2003
• 104min

This is the newest film by William Kwok, whose In The Dumps was presented in ′Wide Angle′ in the 3rd PIFF. The film features a virgin killed by a rapist, dead virgins on trade for spiritual weddings with dead bachelors, the two fr...

Wide Angle

• Australia
• 2003
• 3min

It isn′t easy to always face a new day.

Special Programs in Focus

• Canada
• 2003
• 95m

Emile is the story of an aging professor who makes a journey from his home in England to receive an honorary from the University of Victoria on Canada′s west coast. Although this fact sets his journey in motion, his real purpose f...