A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2002
• 93min

Nothing to Lose is a new film by the Thai director Danny Pang, who had previously worked with his brother Oxide Pang on Bangkok: Dangerous and The Eye. The film is about two young men who are driven into a corner and plan to finis...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 4min

A red flag hangs from a flagpole, and the sound of the national Soviet anthem rings aloud. Suddenly amidst the suppression and poverty a will of freedom arises, and the people uprise. What the mass has gained after the bloodshed ...

Open Cinema

• Germany
• 2002
• 141min

Just before the outbreak of World War II, the German-Jewish Redlich family escapes the Nazi terror at the last moment. Five-year-old Regina begins a new life with her parents, Jettel and Walter, on a small isolated farm in Kenya. ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2002
• 132min

A social outcast ex-con meets a handicapped woman by chance and falls in love with her. Unfortunately, everyone, including their families refuse to take the relationship seriously. Like his previous work, Peppermint Candy, which p...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2002
• 118min

A film based in the northern province of India during 1971, Octave is a tale of a Pakistani couple in their 50s trying to survive during the complex political era. During this time, the Bangladeshi guerrillas, supported by the Ind...

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
• 103min

After In Our Time(1982), which served as a prelude, a group of young directors, encouraging and influencing one another, created the turbulent movement which is the Taiwanese New Wave. They began to make films with their own stori...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 63min

Since 1996, director Chu Hsien-jer has documented the abused animals of Taiwan. In Pick of the Litter-Stray dogs in Taiwan, he views the life of a woman who takes care of the stray dogs. But this film isn’t simply depicting animal...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SriLanka
• 2002
• 85min

Through Pickpocket you can get a glimpse at yet another aspect of Sri lankan cinema. His pregnant wife always psychologically isolates professional pickpocket Kamal. She feels embarrassed by her husband’s profession. Even if he tr...

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 2002
• 5min

At a train station, a male and female pigeon meet for the first time. When she begins to seduce him, a female announcer’s voice sounds in the air. The Voice is so irresistibly sexy that the male finds himself falling in love with ...