The Critics` Week

• Argentina,Spain
• 2002
• 94min

What Elsa wants is to have some money, to work and live at a place where she wants, and to live happily ever after with her loved one. This is her definition of happiness. Although her family and friends live in Argentina, she lea...

World Cinema

• France,Italy
• 2002
• 120min

Every Monday morning Vincent begins the same monotonous routine, a one-and-a-half hour-non-smoking-commute to an uninspiring factory job. Back at home, family obligations always interrupt him in his passion for painting. The neigh...

World Cinema

• Switzerland
• 2002
• 97min

Never to live without passion. The future that Rafael wants for himself is encapsulated in these few words. He is the self-styled leader of the Utopia Blues Band, a rock group which it happens doesn’t yet exist; nonetheless, Rafae...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2002
• 24min

The images in Yunbogi′s Diary were shot by Oshima himself on his first visit to Korea in 1964. He was inspired to turn them into a film by the publication of a Japanese translation of the book which gives the film its title, the d...

New Current

• India
• 2002
• 89 min

The Rite... A Passion is the directorial debut from Indian film critic K.N.T. Sastry. The film received the Indira Gandhi Award for the Best First Feature Film. Subbaiah is a priest who goes from funeral to funeral, to study and p...

The Critics` Week

• Kurdistan
• 2002
• 94min

A girl with sadness and pain on her face is working in a desolate village. A funeral procession is passing her by, and an old man indifferently plays the flute day or night. And an endless pile of dead men and women on the grounds...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 19min

In the 1st episode, Mermaid, a female customer and a male vendor argue about a mermaid fish that appears in the village market. In Flower A woman locked up in a restricted area conceives a flower, and a monster appears to get a ho...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 6min

A little girl who is tired of her mother taking her younger brother′s side all the time, locks herself in a toilet. However, after hours of scribbling on the wall and toying around with toilet paper, the room starts to appear frig...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2002
• 103min

Three small-town high-school pupils come to Tokyo to take university entrance exams. In the examination hall they find their collective thoughts straying to sexual fantasies about one of the female students nearby. They express th...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan,Korea,France
• 2002
• 113min

In the year 2001, China successfully joins the WTO, and also acquires the role of hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics. But while China successfully enters the international scene, factory workers who have lost their jobs set explosiv...