Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 102min

Set in Keelung, Darkness and Light is a winding tale with multiple characters and storylines. The action pivots on a love triangle involving the teenaged Kang-yi, back from Taipei on summer vacation, Ah Lim (daughter of a local ga...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2002
• 8min

A doctor is making his way through the corridors of a vast medieval hospital. He enters the X-ray room, where we catch a glimpse of the process as performed five hundred years ago. He then continues into the operating theatre, whe...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 21min

To pay for his mother’s medical payments, a man borrows money from a loan shark and is then beaten for not paying back on time. His father--an incompetent man--pays no attention to his scars, and his girl friend leaves him because...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2002
• 132min

A tale about a girl who finds out on her 9th birthday that she had been adopted, and who heads to a war-torn Sri Lanka in search of her birth parents. This film is a moving melodrama depicting the brutal, human costs of war. Amudh...

New Current

• Indonesia
• 2002
• 83min

Eliana lives in Jakarta after leaving her hometown. Her mother Bunda is trying to take her back home. Eliana, Eliana is about the conflicts between mother and daughter during a single night. In this low-budget digital adventure fi...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 38min

A summer day, a girl, and violence are three key elements that make up this delightful short film. Shai is a teenage girl who spends the summer working as an employee at a small shop. Either on foot or riding the scooter, our hero...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 61min

Cheng Yu-chieh’s Summer, Dream, which won the ‘best short film award’ at the 2002 Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival, is about a boy who lives in the Taiwan countryside. Hsia Chih is unable to study abroad due to financial problems...

New Current

• Iran
• 2002
• 106 min

Is there a nation that unjustly imprisons its citizens? According to independent film director Manijeh Hekmat, Iran is such a society. When one realizes that two thirds of Iranian citizens have been to prison, one can understand t...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2002
• 120min

One of the unknown aspects of the Cultural Revolution was the banning of love, which according to the revolutionaries, was considered decadent and capitalist. However no policy can stop two young persons from falling in love, even...

The Critics` Week

• Germany
• 2002
• 90min

Following the short films Summer at Horlachen(1999) and I’ll Wait on You Hand and Foot(2000), The Longing is the last in the series of the director’s films on desire. It is also the director’s first feature-length film. In a quiet...