Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2002
• 114min

Dae-shik is the leader of a group of homeless people. One day, Suk-won, an ex-stock broker, who left his job after going bankrupt, joins the group. Dae-shik who is gay, falls in love with Suk-won at first sight, but hides his feel...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2002
• 115min

Set in Japan’s Meiji Era, Ryoma’s Wife is a unique period piece. The film seems to follow the traditions of classical Japanese drama, yet places more focus on aesthetic style accompanied by a modernized musical score. In this sens...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2002
• 116 min

The “Returner”, Miyamoto, acting on tip-offs from his clients, infiltrates deep into the recesses of the black market, steals big scores of non-traceable cash, then, as quickly as he gets it, hands the money to his clients. He is ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2002
• 80min

When snow begins to fall, an ordinary salary man living in the big city recalls his childhood. A mystical experience occurred when he was growing up in a fishing village with his widowed mother. The discovery of a marble leads him...

Open Cinema

• United States
• 2002
• 95min

Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty and love, was not kind to Toula Portokalos, but Apollo was. Wise Toula’s the shame of her big, boisterous and proudly Greek family: unmarried at thirty. With her stringy hair and thick glasses, Tou...

Wide Angle

• France
• 2002
• 104min

Nicolas Philibert returns with another profoundly humanist documentary, this time about the students, aged four to ten, of a rural community, and the dedicated teacher who instructs them in all subjects, from maths to gym, in a on...

Open Cinema

• UK
• 2002
• 119min

Rural Ireland, 1964. Four young women are condemned by church and family to the brutal, dehumanizing nightmare that is life in a Magdalene Asylum. They are there to atone for their sins: the sin of being an unmarried mother, of be...

World Cinema

• Iceland
• 2002
• 96min

Simon, who has taken too many punches from this world and has done too much time in U.S. prisons, returns to his ancestral homeland, Iceland, resigned to do himself in. But before he can complete the task, he meets Dua, a free spi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2002
• 86min

Though A Tale of a Naughty Girl is set in 1969, just as man is about to walk on the moon, Dasgupta has fashioned a timeless, indeed universal tale that speaks to women and men everywhere. With a finely-honed poetic sensibility, Da...

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong
• 2002
• 75min

After Chow Yun Fat, Jet Li, and Stephen Chow we are about to witness the arrival of a new icon from Hong Kong. My Life as McDull is an animation that bravely sets foot in a world dominated by Hello Kitty, Doraemon, Mickey Mouse, a...