A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2003
• 88min

Night in Hong Kong. The pressure of the darkness is so intense that crime could erupt at any moment. Cops die everynight and the city is full of chaos and corruption. One night, "Ponytail", the boss of a group of thugs is murdered...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 90min

In 1999, the year before the millennium, Hei-shu, a long-term unemployed man, finally gets a job in a local musical band performing at funerals and weddings. One day, Hei-shu’s cat is missing. At about the same time, a new neighbo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2002
• 108min

After the death of his beloved, rich nobleman Nguyen feels he has nothing to live for. He becomes delirious with grief, taking out his miseries on the people. Master musician Tam attempts to bring Nguyen back to happiness by setti...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2002
• 25min

15 is a story about three delinquent teenagers who are trying to discover their identities in a fast developing society. The real street kids that appear on the screen add realism to this film. They feel that violence and corrupti...

Open Cinema

• France
• 2002
• 135min

11′ 09″ 01 - September 11 is a movie composed of 11 short films, shot by culturally diverse international filmmakers. One common inspiration: the events of September 11th, 2001 in New York, and their aftermath. Artistic liberty wa...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2002
• 85min

Hu, Chen and Tian roam the streets as pickpockets. Their boss takes the boys’ catch and provides them with food and drugs in exchange. Once in a while, when the boys get arrested, he pays 350 Yuen to bail them out. The director, L...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2002
• 93min

The late 19th century figure Jose Rizal is a national hero of the Philippines. He was a renowned artist, but he is better known as the spiritual leader of the national movement against the colonial domination of Spain and the Cath...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2002
• 77min

Rinko Tatsumi is a quiet, reserved woman in her mid-thirties. She works as an emergency phone counselor at the county mental health center. She is very capable and her husband Shigehiko is an important businessman. They have no ch...

Open Cinema

• France
• 2002
• 103 min

An isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France. A family is gathered for the holiday season. But there will be no celebration - their beloved patriarch has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 52min

The father, over 60 years old, is a typical Korean patriarch. The man who rides roughshod over his wife and children is passionate about his children’s education, and is one-sided in his conversation with his family. Oldest of his...