World Cinema

• Canada
• 2002
• 115min

Ararat is a contemporary story of the intertwining paths of two estranged families, and their search for reconciliation and truth. This ‘film within a film’ also follows the production of an epic film about the Armenian genocide b...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,Japan
• 2002
• 109min

The Best of Times is a coming-of-age story that combines the depressive sensibility of film noir with conventions of the Taiwanese family melodrama. Wei and Jie are cousins who work as money collectors for the local gang. One day,...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2002
• 120min

If you want an effective love story or wish to experience contemporary India, then watch this film. One day, Mrs. Meenakshi Iyer, who is holding a newborn baby, gets on the bus. On the same bus is Raja Chowdhury, a photographer. B...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2002
• 46min

Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf takes his digital camera to the border villages between Iran and Afghanistan, where he focuses on children studying in UNICEF classes. Despite the end of the Taliban regime, the director discovers that t...

World Cinema

• Czech Republic
• 2002
• 88min

In Year of the Devil a Czech folk star, a band of funeral musicians, and a Dutch filmmaker stumble towards enlightenment on a remarkable musical tour. When the folk singer approaches the band asking them to perform with him, he th...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2002
• 76min

Mist is based on one of the short novels by Kim Seung-oak, well known for his sensitive descriptions of the 4.19 generation and his modernist literary style. Kim Soo-yong’s approach to cinematic modernism in this adaptation is acc...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 31min

Thanksgiving holidays. Cousin Jang-chul, who is preparing for the college entrance exam, comes to stay with his cousin′s family for a while. Jang-ju decides to teach her hard-headed cousin, Jang-chul about real life. Five days lat...

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 2002
• 80min

Located somewhere in the middle of nowhere, in the “Ruthenian Bermuda Triangle” between Slovakia, Poland and the Ukraine, is Europe’s only Pop Art Museum. Stanislaw Mucha’s light-hearted documentary traces the roots of America’s...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2002
• 75min

Night Voyage is the outcome of the reunion of Kim Seung-oak’s screenplay, Yun Chung-hi and Shin Sung-Il’s acting, and Kim Soo-yong’s directing achieving the perfect harmony of 1967’s Mist. Hyun-joo, a bank teller, lives with her c...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 63min

Since 1996, director Chu Hsien-jer has documented the abused animals of Taiwan. In Pick of the Litter-Stray dogs in Taiwan, he views the life of a woman who takes care of the stray dogs. But this film isn’t simply depicting animal...