World Cinema

• Iceland,Denmark
• 2002
• 105min

In 1953, Freya, an extremely beautiful Icelandic woman in her mid-20s, comes back from America. She married an American serviceman during the war and moved with him to the US, but now she is back, a widow. She settles down with he...

Wide Angle

• Thailand
• 2002
• 9min

In a small fishing village, a dog is reminiscing about its happy moments with his owner’s family. His memories reveal a kind and warm-hearted couple, their daughter who left for Bangkok, familiar streets and landscapes, all of whi...

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 2002
• 6min

Times are changing, and so are the bosses. But what does that mean to the staff members? And how does the attractive head secretary handle the new situation?

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2002
• 91min

A Seashore Village is the one of Kim Soo-yong’s literary films, adapted from Oh Young-soo’s same titled short story. It lyrically describes lives of women living in untainted village by the sea. Sang-soo, a village hoodlum pursues...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2002
• 52min

This documentary tells the appalling tale of sixteen prostitutes murdered in the city of Mashad. These ‘Spider Killings’ were committed by a 39-year-old man, who believed that his acts were righteous. He insisted that prostitutes ...

World Cinema

• the Netherlands
• 2002
• 84min

Sleeping Rough portrays the encounter of two “uprooted” people: Majok, a young Sudanese illegal immigrant and Jakob, an elderly reclusive veteran. Majok occasionally seeks contact with his fellow countrymen in a local center for a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 106min

The Rule of the Game concerns several individuals faithful to their desires. Killer, who has a restaurant-worker wife and a son, would like to score big one day and live a different life. Two bums, who occasionally work part-time ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 80min

A sociology professor in Germany, Song Doo-yul, is suspected by the Korean government of being a North Korean spy, and he has been presently prohibited from entering Korea. But after 33 years in foreign lands, the professor is pre...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 114min

Ms. Chen is a typical Taipei working housewife. She has a rebellious teenaged daughter obsessed with a teacher, a philandering husband dallying with a neighbour and an allegedly senile mother-in-law who actually just craves some a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2002
• 96min

The casting of amateur actors, shifting between fiction and reality, and the format of a road movie are some of the elements that place A Marooned in Iraq squarely in the tradition of Iranian cinema with which we have become famil...