Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2002
• 6min

Loon Dreaming opens with us seeing the world through the eyes of one of these spectacular birds. The film is an experimental meditation on existence and extinction. The artistry of director Iriz Paabo and her creative use of digit...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 108min

I entered the movie world in ’70s and got to know several directors who had studied abroad and returned in ’80s. I was stunned at the variety of camera techniques openly discussed by these directors. In terms of the Taiwanese New ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2002
• 115min

After rejected at a casting call, the rather unsuccessful actor, Kyung-soo takes off to Chuncheon where he meets a woman who lures him into a one-night stand. Heading home on the train, he meets another woman and pursues her. The ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 95min

Growing Up is the story of Hsiao-pi, and how he comes to the point in his life when he must, in fact, grow up. Hsiao-pi has had a turbulent childhood and youth; Running with a bad crowd and constantly getting into trouble with his...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2002
• 101min

Filip is torn by doubt. He wants to avoid becoming average, one of the many rats in the race for material wealth. He is seriously thinking about entering a monastery. Hanka attends night school and earns a marginal living as a dre...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2002
• 124min

A young man smitten by a young girl at a neighborhood video parlor logs into a strange electronic game where player wins if he or she freezes a little match seller to death. It is further complicated by the fact that little match ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 97min

Those who live a life of loneliness often do not know a way to escape their solitude. Loneliness becomes such vital parts of their beings that the only way to escape it is to stop breathing. Completely devoid of any passion, they ...

World Cinema

• France
• 2002
• 101min

Filmmaker Jeanne is consumed with directing a difficult sex scene. Aided by her loyal AD, Jeanne is hell-bent on getting it right, without compromise or dishonesty. Sex Is Comedy takes the viewer into this faux-authentic sex shoot...

World Cinema

• Latvia
• 2002
• 90min

Nine-year-old Dauka longs for his father, a sailor, to return from the sea. His mother Ilga finds herself unable to tell him and his sister Liga the truth: their father has died. Ilga loved her deceased husband and cannot resign h...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SriLanka
• 2002
• 85min

Through Pickpocket you can get a glimpse at yet another aspect of Sri lankan cinema. His pregnant wife always psychologically isolates professional pickpocket Kamal. She feels embarrassed by her husband’s profession. Even if he tr...