Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2003
• 25min

In 1962, Farrokhzad and three colleagues from Golestan Films traveled to Tabriz and in twelve days filmed The House Is Black, a documentary on the leper colony there. As for the significance of The House is Black, it had the effec...

Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2003
• 97min

Wang Xiaoshuai′s second ′underground′ feature was shot in 1994, soon after The Days, but not post-produced until three years later. In the interim, the Chinese authorities enacted legislation to outlaw independent film-making, and...

Special Programs in Focus

• Canada,Portugal,Netherlands,Finland
• 2003
• 93m

Special Programs in Focus

• Afghanistan
• 2003
• 11min

Basir, a young Afghan refugee living in Iran, sees a television program about the plight of his fellow countrymen which affects him deeply. Later, when he goes to the store to buy a vase for a flowering plant, he decides to donat...

Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2003
• 94min

The landscape where a group of old people bathe in the sun under a wall is very ordinary in the residential areas of Beijing. Yang Lina suddenly stopped while passing by one. She told her accompanying friend that she would like to...

Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2003
• 57min

A fascinating documentation of an unconventional performance with the same name, involving actors, dancers and 30 farm workers from poorer regions of Sichuan province who now labor on Beijing building sites. It took place in the p...

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• Sweden
• 2003
• 110m

Jan Troell′s classic film from the late 1960s tells the tale of Martensson is a schoolteacher in Malmo, in southern Sweden. Bitterly aware of his failure to communicate with his pupils, he nevertheless seems unable to bridge the g...

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• Romania,France
• 2003
• 90m

Who are Niki and Flo? Niki is a retired colonel whose son has just died in an accident. His daughter and her husband, the son of Flo, want to leave Romania behind for the United States. Flo is a "jack of all trades" whose tyrannic...

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• Canada
• 2003
• 108m

In the little Quebecois harbour village of St-Marie-La-Mauderne, the vanishing fish stooke have plummeted a once thriving community into financial decline, forcing the fishermen to rely on govemment welfare. When a multinational c...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania
• 2003
• 100m

Bucharest, 1988. Nela assists the death of her father, a former colonel of the Securitate and loyal supporter of the oppressive regime. Her father has bequeathed his remains to medical science. Unfortunately, no one wants his body...