A Window on Asian Cinema
Last Life in the UniverseAny longtime buff of the Pusan International FIim Festival will easily remember Pen-ek Ratanaruang. Following Fun Bar Karaoke and Mon-rak Transistor, his latest film, Last Life in the Universe, testifies to the fact that his alrea...
Wide Angle
Fill In the BlanksA man and a woman, and another woman and a little child are on the train. They do not know one another but are confined in the same space. The woman looks uncomfortable sitting on her seat and them an buys milk, while the other wo...
Open Cinema
Whale RiderIn one New Zealand coastal village, the Maori people claim descent from Paikea, the Whale Rider. A first-born male has assumed the title of Whangara chief for nearly a thousand years. What would happen if a female tried to enter t...
Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!
Dangerous YouthShin Sung-il, a star actor of youth films, and Twist Kim appear in this youth action film. Duk-tae works at the pub and he revenges on the man who abandoned his older sister by approaching and luring the man′s younger sister, Youn...
World Cinema
Wilbur Wants to Kill HimselfSuicidal but witty Wilbur and his good-hearted older brother Harbour are in their 30s when their father dies and leaves them a run-down second-hand bookshop. Wilbur survives a suicide attempt and goes to the hospital where he meet...
World Cinema
Falling SkyIt′s nearly Christmas at Oslo′s Sollihogda psychiatric hospital. Inmate Reidar expects a meteor to hit him in the head. He wants to save the world from disaster, but most of all he wants to rescue the beautiful but suicidal Juni. ...
World Cinema
Pleasant DaysJust out of prison, it looks like happy days are here again for Peter. With no higher ambition than a trip to the beach, Peter envisages a relaxed life, free of the mistakes that have dogged him in the past. Upon his return to his...
Wide Angle
This Charming ManUnemployed 35-year-old Lars Hansen is sent on a retraining scheme, but his file gets mixed up with that of El Hassan, a Pakistani immigrant. While trying to clarify his identity, Lars discovers that Ida - a woman he once loved - i...
Special Programs in Focus
Saddest Music in the World, TheWhentheimpossible,thearchaic,theobtuseandtheincestuousconvergeoverCanadaonlyonefilm-makercanberesponsible:Winnipeg′sGuyMaddin.DuringthefullblackbloomoftheGreatDepression,failedBroadwayimpresarioChesterKentandhisamnesiacandnymphoma...
World Cinema
StrangerA confident and mature feature debut which won a Tiger Award at the 2003Rotterdam Flim Festival, Stranger boldly invents its own visual language to describe the outer and Inner world of a man who has become a stranger to life. The...