Opening Film

• Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Japan
• 2003
• 107min

Kiyoshi Kurosawa, in his films, often talks about the coexistence of what is and what is not in everyday. He also deals with the coexistence of what is believed not to be and what ...

Closing Film

• Park Ki Hyung
• Korea
• 2003
• 104

A boy has lost his way. Rather than feeling sympathy for him, we fear him. We fear that he might snoop around our house or secretly come inside. The boy is suppressed and driven aw...

New Currents

• Royston TAN
• Singapore
• 2003
• 93min

New Currents

• Fudong YANG
• China
• 2003
• 75min

Living a tranquil life in the serene and beautiful city of Hangzhou, Zhuzi and his fiancee Linshan are content. However with the uncharacteristic early arrival of the cold rainy se...

New Currents

• Asghar FARHADI
• Iran
• 2003
• 95min

Living in a neigbourhood of immigrants, Azerbajanu young Nazar is obliged to divorce his wife, Reyhaneh, by his insiting relatives. The only thing he can do for his ex-wife is to p...

New Currents

• Carol LAI
• Hong Kong
• 2003
• 100min

New Currents

• Manish JHA
• India
• 2003
• 84min

Director Manish Jha says that if the proportion of males and females keeps shifting the way it is today, India will face a horrible future. The imaginary India portrayed in Matrubh...

New Currents

• Pimpaka TOWIRA
• Thailand
• 2003
• 114m

One Night Husband is a story of a Thai woman whose husband disappears on their weddingnight. Sipang searches for her missing husband with the help of Chatchai, the older brother of...

New Currents

• Xiao’er GAN
• China
• 2003
• 102min

A young peasant named Yasui needs a fortune to save his younger brother, Yachung, who is in prison. Since Yasui is a poor day laborer, he has no way of making enough money to bail ...

New Currents

• Siddiq BARMAK
• Afghanistan,Iran
• 2003
• 83min

For women in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, the whole society was just one big prison. Sedigh Barmak tells the story of despair in a dark period. The Afghan women daydream t...