World Cinema

• Sweden,Denmark
• 2003
• 114m

Inspite of the title, Evil is not a horror film, although this Fifties era coming-of-age tale does recount the horrors of life at a tradition-bound boarding school. Based on an autobiographical novel by Jan Guillou, the narrative ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 14m

A middle-aged woman is walking home with a heavy grocery bag. During a brief rest in the playground she turns back into herself, albeit only briefly. As a wife and mother, her usual days are filled with exhausting house chores, te...

World Cinema

• England
• 2003
• 90min

Jamal and Enayatullah are cousins, young Afghanis who live in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, right on top of the Afghan border. Jamal, an orphan, scrapes a living in a brick factory and lives in the sprawling Shamshatoo refugee c...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2003
• 65min

A four-member rock band singing on a stage of a green alien planet is kidnapped. The members are brain washed into becoming ′humans′, and become superstars on Earth. But, thanks to a hero, they find their way back to their home pl...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania
• 2003
• 82m

Romania in the 1920′s. In a border town on the left bank of the Danube, the local nobility attend a glittering ball. Army Captain Petre Dumitriu and his beautiful young wife Marie-Therese are the toast of the event. Deeply faithfu...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 115min

A strange yet unique story about hoodlums who spend most of their times either on gambling or dealing pornographies, high school students who sell their bodies, and prostitutes. This film meticulously depicts how capitalism reprod...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 21m

Eun-soo is a new graduate student. When she visits her hometown, she has an argument with her estranged father. When she was younger and pretended to be ill, her father would buy herfried rice to make her feel better. But as she g...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2003
• 128m

During the 1931 occupation of Shanghai by Japan's armed forces, a Chinese resistance group known as Purple Butterfly plot the assassination of Yamamoto, the head of the invading country's secret service. Ding Hui who works for the...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2003
• 115min

Takeshi Kitano is back in town, this time with a historical film. An encounter with the legendary director is enough to make Zatochi worth watching. Takeshi Kitano made his way into Japanese film history, etching himself into it. ...

World Cinema

• Slovakia,CzechRep.
• 2003
• 104m

In the autumn of 1932, three men, Gabriel, Martin and Karol are all bathing in a large lake and are watching a beautiful woman who is reading a book under a tree. The woman, Helena is beautiful, intelligent, liberated, but despite...