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International Premiere

Wide Angle

Wet Sand: Voices from L.A. 10 Years Later
  • Dai Sil KIM-GIBSON
  • United States
  • 2003
  • 59m

In 1993 documentary filmmaker Dai Sil Kim-Gibson released Sa-l-Gu, her powerful film about communities, including Korean-Americans, struggling in the after math of the "L.A Uprisin...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

The Zone
  • Esaias BAITEL
  • Sweden
  • 2003
  • 10min

In the 1970s Swedish-born Jewish photographer Esaias Baitel immersed himself in a Parisian suburb where motor bikes, rock and roll, and swastikas go hand in hand. Keeping his Jewis...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

Burning Dreams
  • Wayne Peng
  • Taiwan
  • 2003
  • 75min

Portraying the lives and dreams of various generations of dancers and students in "The Shanghai Dream Factory Danceand Art School", Wayne Peng reveals the changing face of China an...

International Premiere

Open Cinema

Eternity
  • Amol PALEKA
  • India
  • 2003
  • 90min

In the ancient 10th century Indian Kingdom of Mala, the King and Qieen are asked to carry out an unpleasant ′request′ of the senate committee. Due to the King′s impotence, the Que...

International Premiere

Open Cinema

Get up
  • KAZUYUKI Izutsu
  • Japan
  • 2003
  • 112min

Get Up deals with the hilarious happenings related to a James Brown, ′the King of Soul′, concert. The director Izutsu Kazuyuki, famous for Nodojiman, which portrayed the contestant...

Asian Premiere

Open Cinema

Good Bye, Lenin
  • Wolfgang BECKER
  • Germany
  • 2003
  • 118m

October 1989 was a bad time to fall into a coma if you lived in East Germany and this is precisely what happens to Alex′s proudly socialist mother. Teenage Alex has a big problem o...

Korea Premiere

Open Cinema

Ong Bak
  • Prachaya PINKAEW
  • Thailand
  • 2003
  • 105min

A challenging spirit lies beneath the rapid rise of recent Thai films. Take the action film genre as an example. To add Thai traditional action style to Hollywood and Jackie Chan-i...

Korea Premiere

Open Cinema

Whale Rider
  • Niki CARO
  • NewZealand,Germany
  • 2002
  • 101m

In one New Zealand coastal village, the Maori people claim descent from Paikea, the Whale Rider. A first-born male has assumed the title of Whangara chief for nearly a thousand yea...

Korea Premiere

Open Cinema

Zatoichi
  • KITANO Takeshi
  • Japan
  • 2003
  • 115min

Takeshi Kitano is back in town, this time with a historical film. An encounter with the legendary director is enough to make Zatochi worth watching. Takeshi Kitano made his way int...

Korea Premiere

Special Programs in Focus

The Orphan of Anyang
  • Chao WANG
  • China
  • 2000
  • 84min

This is a debut feature based on the novel which the director himself wrote. Dagang is over forty, unmarried(not by choice), and unemployed. He takes on an orphan in order to recei...

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