A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2002
• 90min

Gopalakrishnan’s hero is Kaliyappan, an executioner in southern India, who enjoys the monetary rewards of his position but can no longer bear the solitude or guilt. More often than not, the executions he participates in are the re...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2002
• 103min

Three small-town high-school pupils come to Tokyo to take university entrance exams. In the examination hall they find their collective thoughts straying to sexual fantasies about one of the female students nearby. They express th...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 20min

Yousuke, who has only concerned himself with drawing pictures of young girls, one day meets a strange high school girl in a bus. What? strange about her is she always holds umbrella and has wet skirts on. In this film which disint...

World Cinema

• the Netherlands
• 2002
• 84min

Sleeping Rough portrays the encounter of two “uprooted” people: Majok, a young Sudanese illegal immigrant and Jakob, an elderly reclusive veteran. Majok occasionally seeks contact with his fellow countrymen in a local center for a...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 93min

A postman tosses a letter to Watan, as the middle-aged Atayal man is still sound asleep with a hangover. The letter, about the discovery of his wallet buried in cement, falls on Watan’s face, just like the droppings of a bird. Wat...

Wide Angle

• Finland,Germany,Brazil
• 2002
• 105min

Sound of Brasil is a musical road movie, a captivating and passionate documentary about the many styles of Brazilian music. In Sound of Brasil, Kaurismaki embarks on a musical journey of 4,000 kilometers. On his way he stops at Pe...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2002
• 93min

"Splendid Outing is one of representative Kim Soo-yong′s films in the 70s. He stepped into the modernist cinema experimenting new film language after Mist. The film deals with the issue of “searching for the self”, his main intere...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2002
• 116min

Springtime in a Small Town is filled with carnal desires. As the unspeakable and repressed desires escalate, and sexual tensions burst out of the screen. There also is the terror of witnessing a savage face hidden behind the calmn...

Wide Angle

• Brazil
• 2002
• 94min

This film deals with a little-known period in the life of celebrated Brazilian filmmaker and political activist, Glauber Rocha. Rocha’s years of exile in Cuba (1971-72) coincided with a period of great cultural ferment and debate ...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2002
• 13min

String is a story about a boy who struggles to continue his sense of close kinship with his grandfather after the old man dies. The boy meets another old man who reminds him of his grandfather, a man who roams the alley every day....