World Cinema

• Germany
• 2002
• 102 min

Fourteen-year-old Lola and her mother are trapeze artists in a Russian circus. Lola loves the circus, and she loves Leo, a young brown bear her stepfather bought. One day, Lola’s mother vanishes, and from then on Lola has to fend ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2002
• 135min

Kang Chul-joong is a reckless, not-too-intelligent cop whose guilt-free tendency for corruption never stopped him from dealing in drugs. Chilling serial murders rack the city and Chul-joong slowly finds himself changing as he foll...

World Cinema

• Finland
• 2002
• 97min

The Man Without a Past details the misadventures of tired-faced, middle-aged M (Markku Peltola), who, upon arriving in Helsinki, is brutally mugged, taken to hospital and proclaimed dead - but who just as suddenly sits up, strips ...

Open Cinema

• Korea
• 2002
• 119 min

Two convicts on the special clemency list escape from prison without knowledge of their impending release. To conceal the jailbreak, the prison warden sends out a team of men whose mission is to secretly escort the fugitives back ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 106min

CMPC produced several blockbuster movies in the early 80s, and yet the box-office profit was poor. I proposed for four new directors to make a film, and I assured CMPC that it wouldn’t a big loss even if it failed. I asked Tao Dec...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2002
• 117min

An intelligent young Korean man, known as ′R′, faces death by hanging for committing two sex-murders in Japan. But on the day of the execution, the hanging fails: R′s body refuses to die. The prison rule-books do not cover this ev...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2002
• 88 min

In a tiny desolate town in Australia, there is only one road in and out. A fair skinned, blue eyed teenage girl rejects her indigenous upbringing for that of her Irish father. She has developed a tough shell to survive the abusive...

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 2002
• 12min

A few years ago I discovered a book titled “Doctor Diamond’s Portraits of the Insane” written by Adrienne Burrows and Iwan Schumacher. [The] photograph of a young woman who imagined herself to be a queen fascinated me. Her delusio...

Open Cinema

• Spain
• 2002
• 112min

Two men sit together in a theatre, strangers to each other. They are young nurse, Benigno, and writer, Marco. On the stage, The Fairy Queen. The piece is so moving that Marco starts to cry. In the darkness, Benigno can see the gle...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2002
• 105min

The place: the not exactly happening city of Frankfurt/Oder, East Germany; the people: two couples in their late thirties, set in their ways, going nowhere. Radio host Chris and his second wife Katrin don’t have much to say to eac...