New Currents

• Iran
• 2003
• 75min

Young director Alireza Amini has been deeply interested in loneliness and the sense of alienation of people in deserted places. Letters in the Wind, his debut feature, was a story of soldiers consoling themselves by listening to r...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2003
• 88min

In the 1990′s, Chinese farmers in Henan province sold their blood to make money and escape extreme poverty. However, poor hygiene conditions infected 60 percent of the farmers with HIV, and it was passed onto their children. To Li...

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong
• 2003
• 96min

It is easy to say that the modern history of Asiaisa history of seismic changes. However, it is never easy to imagine how many decisions and how much effort a man living that history has to carry out to become the person he is now...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bhutan
• 2003
• 108min

Dondup is a handsome young government officer stationed in a rural outpost of Bhutan. He wants to leave the Himalyan kingdom and go to America. On his way to achieve this goal, he encounters a simple apple seller and a good-natur...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2003
• 44min

ls it possible to turn the cinema clock back to the time before industrialization?That is, to take an artistic medium away from the mass capital and dehumanization and back to the age of innocence. Trial poses the fundamental ques...

Open Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2003
• 102m

The expression that ′there is nothing new under heaven′ might be a perfect fit for melodramas. Johnnie To′s Turn Left, Turn Right also tells a similar story, like other melodramas, but nevertheless impresses us with its unique nar...

New Currents

• China
• 2003
• 92min

Everybody craves power, albeit to different degrees. In a society where power moves only hierarchically, the symbols of power must be constantly reproduced. Uniform tells a story of one man who happens to come across a symbol of p...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2003
• 120m

This film is an adaptation of the 18th Century French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses adapted to fit Korea′s Chosun Dynasty period. The Chosun Dynasty had more repressive customs than Europe in the 18th Century, and consequently ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!

• Korea
• 2003
• 95min

Ga Soo-do conspires to take over power with the aid of the little king and in order to rid of his opponent, Song Won is falsely charged with a crime. The only way Song Won can live is to receive the King′s direct pardon in the for...

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 2003
• 80min

Twenty-five-year-old Henryk Wichmann is the CDU′s candidate during the 2002 election campaign for the sparsely populated Uckermark/Oberbarnim constituency. Wichmann′s response to industry jobs cutbacks, to 25 percent unemployment ...