World Cinema

• France,Israel
• 2002
• 100min

It is early May in 1948, a few weeks before the creation of the independent state of Israel. The story follows a boatload of Jewish refugees emigrating from Europe after the Holocaust. Aboard their ship, the Kedma, the men and wom...

Open Cinema

• Thailand
• 2002
• 90min

Based on classical Thai literature, the film is a magical, tragic love story based on the life and times of a strong warrior, Kun Pan. During a time of rebellion, Pan’s archenemy and rival for Pimpilalai’s love, convinces the king...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 104min

A technique of Tai Chi, the pushing of hands teaches one how to maintain one’s own balance while destroying an opponent’s. Mr. Chu, a retired Tai Chi master, leaves Beijing to live in the United States with his son Alex. When ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2002
• 91min

What goes on at a funeral reveals the culture and customs of that particular region or society. Liu Bingjian’s Cry Woman looks at Chinese society through such scenes. First, the Chinese custom of ‘wailing’ for the dead is an indic...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 109min

Brain is an elementary school teacher, recently fired for his improper political beliefs. He becomes the pawn used to convince the locals that a joint US-Taiwan military manoeuvre will be good for the area, and so he goes about tr...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 16min

A female cab driver, Debs finds herself being immensely attracted to a waitress, Mel. And for the first time in her life, she starts to reconsider her own sexual identity. It seems that she is fearful to accept her true urges. The...

Wide Angle

• Sweden
• 2002
• 4min

What are we doing with our lives? What are we giving to our children? What is it that’s bringing us to the edge? And most important of all: what time is it? This film is an attempt to shed light on these simple questions with the ...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2002
• 95min

In 1931, Molly, 14, her sister Daisy, 8, and their cousin Gracie 10, three ‘half-caste’ children from Western Australia, are taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution. Here they are subject to phys...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 14min

The main character ‘I’ looks around her social environment: a group of friends who will gladly join her for a drink anytime, parents who are always worried about her future, a man she loves, and her own immersion in her art. She t...

World Cinema

• Albania,Belgium,France
• 2002
• 89min

Niku tries to earn his living in the chaos of Albania using his most valuable family possession, an aging truck. Everyone around him seems obsessed by foreign countries, like his girlfriend Klara, who wants to be a model in Paris,...