World Cinema

• United States,France
• 2003
• 117min

Isabel Walker, a quintessential young Californian has newly arrived in Paris to visit her pregnant sister, Roxeanne. A darkly romantic poet, Roxy has just been jilted by her scoundrel husband, and it appears they are headed for" l...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2003
• 107m

The private preserve of family life, a world of secrets and closed doors, of guarded relationships and unattractive truths is blown wide open in Andrew Jarecki′s documentary Capturing the Friedmans. A complex, ambivalent and absol...

Special Programs in Focus

• Canada
• 2003
• 104m

Eight-year old Garnet and his sixteen-year old sister Flower have grown up in an environment of stifled grief. Their mother died unexpectedly while giving birth to Garnet and since then their father Ed manages to put food on the t...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 16m

The boy works at a poster manufacturing factory carrying ink barrels. By mistake he delivers the ink to the wrong place and the printed posters are ruined. The boy pastes these posters in his room and while looking at them he imag...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2003
• 79min

Since his debut film, DANGAN Runner, Sabu has pursued his own style and narrative structure. Hard Luck Hero stays consistent with his other works, yet has a little more sophistication. His formula for film is as follows: First, ch...

New Currents

• Thailand
• 2003
• 114m

One Night Husband is a story of a Thai woman whose husband disappears on their weddingnight. Sipang searches for her missing husband with the help of Chatchai, the older brother of her husband, and his wife, Busaba, One day, Sipan...

Special Programs in Focus

• Sweden
• 2003
• 156min

Knut Hamsun, the Norwegian writer and Nobel prize-winner was a widely admired and passionate man. Hamsun actively supported the occupation of his country by the Nazisin World War II because he believes it will protect his people f...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2003
• 92min

Prolific director Kurosawa creates a provocative commentary on inter-generational conflict and the no-hope outlook of some Japanese youth. Enigmatic Mamoru lives alone with his poisonous jellyfish. These beautiful sea creatures ...

World Cinema

• Spain
• 2003
• 113m

In an industrial city by the sea in northern Spain, Carlos(Spanish chameleon Javier Bardem in a stellar performance) and his unemployed friends search daily for life′s emergency exits. For them life is a tightrope walk along waiti...

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 2003
• 80min

Twenty-five-year-old Henryk Wichmann is the CDU′s candidate during the 2002 election campaign for the sparsely populated Uckermark/Oberbarnim constituency. Wichmann′s response to industry jobs cutbacks, to 25 percent unemployment ...