A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2002
• 116min

Springtime in a Small Town is filled with carnal desires. As the unspeakable and repressed desires escalate, and sexual tensions burst out of the screen. There also is the terror of witnessing a savage face hidden behind the calmn...

World Cinema

• Denmark
• 2002
• 105min

Minor Mishaps is the story of a family in which relations are put to the test after the matriarch dies. It is a collective tale in which we follow the lives of the four main characters: John, the father, who has a serious heart co...

The Critics` Week

• Norway
• 2002
• 105min

If you ever see the back of a man at a gas station and feel that you know him, just pass him by. Chances are, if you were to say anything to the man, that man will invite you into a world of hell. Eddie, in his thirties, and Maria...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2002
• 110min

The short film is neither a preparation stage for a feature film nor a mere exercise for the director. In order to draw the public’s attention to short films, in May of 2002, seven well recognized Japanese filmmakers produced and ...

Wide Angle

• NewZealand
• 2002
• 70min

One does not expect a documentary about a serving politician to be moving, inspiring, and enormous fun. Georgina Beyer, the Member of Parliament for Wairarapa in New Zealand, and the subject of this most enjoyable film from Annie ...

New Current

• Korea
• 2002
• 67 min

A man meets a woman, falls in love, and spends his life with her. Perhaps the most shocking aspect of this film is that it boldly depicts the sexuality of a couple in their seventies. Based on a true story the director encountered...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2002
• 99min

Go Chang-yul, who went through a rebellious and anguished adolescence, decides to become a Buddhist. He receives a new name, Jung-kwang meaning ‘Mad Monk’ and tries to start a new life as a priest. He embraces women forsaken by so...

World Cinema

• Sweden
• 2002
• 88min

Serbandi, a middle-aged man of Middle Eastern background, is in turmoil. He has lost control of the women in his home. They have become ill-tempered and disrespectful, with the result that his attempts to carry out his patriarchal...

New Current

• Korea
• 2002
• 123min

Graduate student Won-sang is dumped by his girlfriend. When he finds out that she was seeing Yun-sik, a magazine editor, he gets a job at the magazine as a writer. Yun-sik sees himself as a mentor to Won-sang, who becomes his trus...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2002
• 87min

A young city boy is sent to live with his 70-ish grandmother who lives deep in the mountains. Bored and disgusted of his mute grandmother and her unsanitary rural surroundings, he either treats the elderly woman with contempt or t...