A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2003
• 92min

From the 5th generation filmmakers to the recent Independent filmmakers, there has not been a film that portrays the darker side of Chinese society as severely as this one, in which Li Yang shows how poverty lies beneath the rapid...

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!

• Korea
• 2003
• 100m

Bonanza is Chung Chang-wha′s earlier film showing a unique style which integrates film noir and family melodrama together. A wandering old man who had left his family ages ago in search of gold mines finally returns with the gold....

Open Cinema

• Denmark,France
• 2003
• 76m

A poignant and touching drama The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear is the eighth feature-length animated film by prolific producer and director Danish grand master Jannik Hastrup. In the polar bear′s den which acts as a sanctuary from ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 27min

Having received a letter of dismissal, the railway track repairman puts his daily provision of bread and milk into his bag and goes to work on his last day. He thinks about committing suicide so that he can end his painful days an...

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 ...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2003
• 75min

Portraying the lives and dreams of various generations of dancers and students in "The Shanghai Dream Factory Danceand Art School", Wayne Peng reveals the changing face of China and its relationship with Taiwan. The documentary Bu...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 25m

The owner of an illegal driving school is a married man and Jae-Kyung who works there secretly likes him. Feeling the weight of their reality, the two of them stare at each ot her helplessly. Everyday little incidents occur in the...

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

• 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

• China
• 2003
• 78min

Chen-Mo, who illegally sells flowers in the street and Meiting, who works at a barbershop, are just two people living in the gutters of Beijing. They meet by chance and end up moving in together. There is no such thing as a future...