Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 23min

The Skywalk Is Gone is a short film which is an extension of the director’s 2001 feature, What Time Is It There?. Shiang-chyi is wandering about Taipei Main Station without a fixed purpose. But the skywalk and the watch seller, Hs...

World Cinema

• Sweden
• 2002
• 109min

16 year old Lilya lives in a dreary suburb somewhere in the former Soviet Union. Her mother has moved to the US with a new man and Lilya is looking forward to joining them. But as time goes by and no letters or money arrive from h...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 83min

In January 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that the ‘railroad union’s practice of indirect election’ is unconstitutional. The ruling was the beginning of the end for the union, which had been patronized by the government for 53 year...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 105min

Shu-chen, a young upwardly mobile executive is at the centre of Taipei Story. People making emotional, social and financial demands of her surround her on all sides. Her father is hoping for her assistance with his own failing bus...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 106min

Kang is a high school student who gets involved in a series of absurd chases through the decaying concrete jungle that is Taipei. With little interest in scholastics, Kang hangs around at Shimanding where he meets Ah Tze, a small-...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 123min

Kun-cheng lives in a secluded cottage in the middle of nowhere with his parents, his young wife and their daughter. With familial expectations coming to bear on him, he only has his loving wife Ah Shiu as refuge. After being tragi...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2002
• 117min

Filmmaker Im Kwon-taek introduces the life of talented 19th century painter Jang Seung-up in his latest feature Chihwaseon. Born into a lower-class family, Jang Seung-up’s artistic gift bestows him with the status of palace artist...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2002
• 105min

This is the second film directed by Hiroshi Shimizu, who had worked as Takeshi Kitano’s assistant director. The film comically depicts the lives of three underdogs. Iwano, in his twenties, stops boxing and lives as a ‘human punchi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2002
• 125min

Blissfully Yours introduces the issue of Burmese illegal immigrants in Thailand. Min is one such man from Myanmar who falls in love with the Thai, Roong. As Min sets out to find a place for him and Roong to live, he asks the middl...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2002
• 112min

While watching What’s with Love?, one cannot stop but wonder if the lives of the inner-city youth everywhere are the same, whether in Korea, the U.S., or Indonesia. 17-year-old high school student Cinta is a beautiful, smart, and ...