Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 80min

April 1980, a month before the Gwangju democratic movement; a number of miners in Kangwon province, who were picketing for the elimination of the government-sponsored labor union, were deliberately run over by a police car. In tur...

The Critics` Week

• UK
• 2002
• 97min

Morvern Callar is the second film from the director of Ratcatcher, and the visually sensual film contains a story that can be interpreted in many different ways. Under the blinking lights of a Christmas tree, a woman can be seen s...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2002
• 116min

A pastoral love story between a young man and woman. The first half of Mon-rak Transistor is filled with lyrical scenes of Thailand’s pristine landscapes which presents itself as a blessed paradise. This paradise turns into a nigh...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 93min

A postman tosses a letter to Watan, as the middle-aged Atayal man is still sound asleep with a hangover. The letter, about the discovery of his wallet buried in cement, falls on Watan’s face, just like the droppings of a bird. Wat...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 15min

After buying a crawfish, a man and his girl friend head home. They want to get home as quickly as possible to enjoy the real taste of the crawfish, but going back home is not easy somehow. The man is caught up in the irony of wish...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 20min

Yousuke, who has only concerned himself with drawing pictures of young girls, one day meets a strange high school girl in a bus. What? strange about her is she always holds umbrella and has wet skirts on. In this film which disint...

New Current

• Japan
• 2002
• 115min

Woman of Water was inspired by the true story of UA who plays Ryo in the film. UA is a famous singer in Japan, who seems to call upon rain every time she performs at an important concert. Based on this fact, the film revolves arou...

Wide Angle

• the Netherlands
• 2002
• 10min

“Johan wanted to make one more film. A film about love inspired by the Song of Songs. He could only finish part of it. A montage of conversations with friends and colleagues. On a sunny day in January, he died... This is what he l...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2002
• 90min

Adopted as a baby in Korea and raised in a provincial German town, Michael has two identities. His friends accept him as one of them, but the mirror reminds Michael everyday of the hole in his biography which nags at him like an o...

New Current

• Korea
• 2002
• 110min

A wife is in despair when she finds out about her husband’s infidelity. Out of guilt, the husband decides they will move to the idyllic countryside to console her. There the wife meets an attractive yet pessimistic doctor who draw...