World Cinema

• Canada
• 2002
• 85min

Khaled is a resourceful 10-year-old boy surviving in the inner city of Toronto. He shares an apartment with his chain-smoking mother, helping her out with the daily chores as she becomes too ill to do them herself. Life in school...

New Current

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 90 min

Chang Duo Chiang is a dish the film’s main character eats everyday. Brave 20 opens with the meticulous process of Brave 20 being made. As each ingredient is added and becomes transformed into a tasty dish, the film seems to be hin...

Opening Film

• Korea
• 2002
• 95min

While a film festival is set up as an arena where ‘pleasure’is embraced, it is also a place where we as a general audience or cinephiles celebrate the meaning of cinema and also contemplate how we should live with it as well. For ...

Wide Angle

• Czech Republic
• 2002
• 19min

Whether you want it or not, a childhood trauma can affect your whole life. And whether you want it or not, your whole life can affect your relationships with long time friends. The Pirate is a film about a pirate, his trauma and a...

Wide Angle

• Hungary
• 2002
• 8min

Jenny has been humiliated. Now she dreams about revenge and of breaking out of her miserable life. The appearance of a pirate ship gives her the chance to exact that revenge. Jenny is washing while waiting for the ship and dressin...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 77min

Year 2000: A story about 11 children from the graduating class at Sakura Moto Nursery, their teacher, and their parents. The kindergarten’s motto is to raise the children to have a multi-cultural mindset, and the children are from...

The Critics` Week

• France,Mauritania
• 2002
• 95min

Mauritania, a country in Africa, had to struggle for years to gain its independence. And for those people who never knew that there are filmmakers in Mauritania, this film will be a pleasant surprise. Waiting for Happiness is a ne...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2002
• 87min

Another comedy from director Sabu, The Blessing Bell follows the trail of a man who may be the luckiest unlucky person. The factory shutdown leaves Igarashi jobless on his first day of work. As he aimlessly trudges along the road,...

The Critics` Week

• Hungary
• 2002
• 75min

Perhaps we could describe this film as a modern-day silent film aspiring to be free of language and the confines of speech. This highly experimental film by one of the most acclaimed new directors from Hungary suggests--using mont...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 21min

A family lives by a shooting range, raising cows. Both the aunt and the boy’s dog are pregnant, and the sound of the shots nearby annoys them immensely. Whenever his uncle and his wife--an affectionate couple-go into their room, t...