A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2002
• 118min

A film based in the northern province of India during 1971, Octave is a tale of a Pakistani couple in their 50s trying to survive during the complex political era. During this time, the Bangladeshi guerrillas, supported by the Ind...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2002
• 17min

Through this film, we instantly share in a young boy’s nostalgia for his pure love. He leads us to his memories, where he felt love that is as sweet as honey, as high as the sky, as limpid as water, as pleasant as the music, and a...

Open Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 113 min

In Taipei, the teeming modern capital of Taiwan, a corporate CEO freezes to death on a steaming hot day. Then the notorious mistress of a politician burns to death in a room untouched by flames. Ace detective Huang Huo-to discover...

Wide Angle

• Canada,Switzerland
• 2002
• 180min

A filmmaker’s inquiry into transcendence becomes a three-hour trip across countries, connecting people over culture and time. From Toronto, the place of his childhood, Peter Mettler sets out on a journey that includes evangelism a...

World Cinema

• France,Spain,Belgium
• 2002
• 130min

During a bullfight, a young matador is gored and the bull, Romero, killed. That is the beginning rather than the end of this tale, however, which actually explores what happens to a variety of people all over Europe who receive di...

Closing Film

• Japan
• 2002
• 113min

Takeshi Kitano’s films always contain intense energy hidden beneath their apparent tranquility and reticence. Sometimes that energy can be violence and, at other times, obsession. Dolls is a film about love that is controlled and ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2002
• 91min

Based on the Maupassant’s short story first introduced as “First Love”, but now known as “The Return,” Return of a Man is Kim Soo-yong’s eighth film and his first adaptation. The film simultaneously presents the tragic love of Nam...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2002
• 82min

An anarchic comedy in colour and ‘Scope about three students’ (the tallest one played by Kato Kazuhiko, founder/leader of the Sadistic Mika Band) who emerge from a swim in the sea to find that their clothes have been stolen from t...

Wide Angle

• Australia
• 2002
• 90min

In the midst of war-ravaged Palestine, the everyday experiences of a hopeful newly wed couple take on particular resonance. In July 2000, while Arafat is in America talking peace, Bassam - a telephone repairman in Cleveland - retu...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2002
• 96min

Invisible to everyone around him, a contemporary filmmaker magically finds himself in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg - back in the early 1700s. He meets a cynical French diplomat from the 19th Century and the men become accomplic...