Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2003
• 12min

In the unknown future, a creature, half human and half mechanical, wakes from the only survived chrysails. Right there what is waiting for him are dreamlike "memory leaves" on the ground, eaten by the butterfly, haunted in the mai...

Wide Angle

• Sweden
• 2003
• 7min

It is the middle of the night and a woman (celebrated Swedish actress Lena Endre) is conducting an important telephone call. Director Gunnar Bergdahl describes his short film thus, "One story, one shot. This film tries to investi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Pakistan,Germany,France
• 2003
• 99min

A feud between Muslims and Sikhs has kept the two nations at war with each other since the country gained independence from Britain. They raped women of opposing religion and then forced them to convert. These female victims were ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Afghanistan
• 2003
• 15min

Set in Afghanistan in the days prior to the Taliban take over, the story is about a a youth who rescues film reels from the projection booths of destroyed theaters and shows them in his mobile projection cart. During these hard an...

World Cinema

• Macedonia,Bulgaria
• 2003
• 98m

In 1913, Macedonia was severed into three parts. The tragic fate of the country cruelly marked the life of Katerina, an ordinary woman from the town of Prilep. Katerina tells her story to a television director from Skopje. When sh...

Critics' Choice

• Spain,France
• 2003
• 130m

Whose story is this? Does it belong to an aggravated talking parrot, who witnessed the sudden death of his aging owner Madame Catherine and her subsequent secret burial by Eric the town mechanic?Or could the story be told through ...

Wide Angle

• Afghanistan,Canada
• 2003
• 65min

For those audiences that remember Mohsen Makhmalbaf′s Kandahar, Return to Kandahar will be even more interesting. Nelofer Pa?ira, the documentary producer and Canadian journalist is the leading actress of Kandahar and she leads he...

Special Programs in Focus

• Canada,France,UK
• 2003
• 98m

Based on J.G. Ballard′s controversial 1973 science fiction novel of the same name. David Cronenberg′s Crash is a study of the intersection of eroticism and technology, which is manifested in the sexual passion provoked by tragic a...

Wide Angle

• Australia
• 2003
• 15m

Eddie spends her pocket money obsessively hoarding fireworks and carefully planning for cracker night. When it finally it arrives, Eddie and her family head to the local football oval. In the frosty air Eddie lights the fuse of he...

Wide Angle

• Ireland
• 2003
• 54m

A unique film essay on the world-renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. It is the first film to celebrate all aspects of Kiarostami′s artistry: poet, painter, photographer, installation artist, and filmmaker. Taking an analy...