World Cinema

• Venezuela,Canada,Spain
• 2002
• 93min

Looking for a way to ease the grief caused by the death of his wife, Tomas Alonso gives his son the only photograph of his mother - a youthful portrait taken on the shore of a distant ocean. Santiago becomes intrigued with this my...

World Cinema

• France
• 2002
• 88min

Cayeux is a small seaside town boasting a large pebble beach. In winter, it’s as deserted as the moon. In summer, however, crowds of holiday-makers and regulars frequent the beach and its colourful huts, lending a much more festiv...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2002
• 111min

The film begins with a couple walking in a deserted city. Daisuke, whose business in Tokyo had failed, and who had just returned to his old town to make a comeback, and his lover Hisako fill the empty space. Daisuke adheres to a h...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 14min

The time has come for a private Park--a man with patriotism but a hopeless klutz who wants to prove that he is a man. He has been ordered to exterminate a fly which has flown into a conference room where the commanding officer is ...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2002
• 84min

Paul can’t seem to escape the dreariness of small-town life, and his decision to do military service, motivated only by a desire to spite his left-wing family, only makes his situation worse. One day he goes AWOL. On arriving hom...

New Current

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 103 min

The Trigger, the directorial debut from Alex Yang, seems definitely to follow the traditions of Taiwanese cinema associated with the likes of Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, etc. Just as in the films by these directors, the storylin...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2002
• 13min

Her beloved husband is sent to the front line just two months before he is to be discharged from military service. When she is informed of her husband’s death in battle, she tries to find a photo of the two of them together taken ...

New Current

• Japan
• 2002
• 118min

Border Line is a film by Korean-Japanese director Lee Sang-il, a graduate from Japan’s Moving Image Academy. His previous film, Blue Chong, was about a third generation Korean-Japanese attending a North Korean sponsored school. Bo...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 80min

This Taiwanese drama provides a metaphor for life and politics on the island. Life at a military outpost is deadly dull. To entertain themselves the officers order enlisted men to shoot beer cans off their heads. Private Yisan, fo...

World Cinema

• Bulgaria,Macedonia
• 2002
• 75min

A group of friends in their 40s live a rough life in a small seaport town. Their value system is rudimentary, their notions of friendship and human dignity primitive. They live a hardscrabble life stealing rocks from the local qua...