The Critics` Week

• UK
• 2002
• 97min

Morvern Callar is the second film from the director of Ratcatcher, and the visually sensual film contains a story that can be interpreted in many different ways. Under the blinking lights of a Christmas tree, a woman can be seen s...

The Critics` Week

• France,Palestine
• 2002
• 92min

Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman not only directed, but also stars as the main character in this film. Divine Intervention transforms one of the world’s most tension-driven places into a space of comedy. Suleiman’s acting-with ...

The Critics` Week

• Belgium
• 2002
• 103min

Understanding the film The Son is like solving a mystery. The first part of the film concentrates on showing the hard labor of the main character, Olivier. Olivier is a carpenter who teaches vocational education to youths at a cab...

The Critics` Week

• Germany
• 2002
• 90min

Following the short films Summer at Horlachen(1999) and I’ll Wait on You Hand and Foot(2000), The Longing is the last in the series of the director’s films on desire. It is also the director’s first feature-length film. In a quiet...

The Critics` Week

• Argentina,Spain
• 2002
• 94min

What Elsa wants is to have some money, to work and live at a place where she wants, and to live happily ever after with her loved one. This is her definition of happiness. Although her family and friends live in Argentina, she lea...

The Critics` Week

• Kurdistan
• 2002
• 94min

A girl with sadness and pain on her face is working in a desolate village. A funeral procession is passing her by, and an old man indifferently plays the flute day or night. And an endless pile of dead men and women on the grounds...

The Critics` Week

• Norway
• 2002
• 105min

If you ever see the back of a man at a gas station and feel that you know him, just pass him by. Chances are, if you were to say anything to the man, that man will invite you into a world of hell. Eddie, in his thirties, and Maria...

The Critics` Week

• Mexico,Spain
• 2002
• 130min

The film Japon′s director, Carlos Reygadas, seems to believe that film is a visual rather than a story-telling medium. The majestic and gloomy scenery of Mexico as captured by the film is hard to erase. Just as in the films of And...

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...

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...