World Cinema

• Fatmir Koci
• Albania,Belgium,France
• 2001
• 89min

Niku tries to earn his living in the chaos of Albania using his most valuable family possession, an aging truck. Everyone around him seems obsessed by foreign countries, like his g...

World Cinema

• Beartiz Flores Silva
• Uruguay,Argentina,Cuba,Spain,Belgium
• 2001
• 97min

Elisa dreams of owning a hairdressing salon in Montevideo. But as a penniless young mother, she finds her success as a prostitute. Still when she falls in love with the pimp Placid...

World Cinema

• Manoel de OLIVEIRA
• France,Portugal
• 2002
• 133min

Amazingly prolific, 93-year-old Manoel de Oliveira returns with a seductive, tangled saga set on a genteel Portuguese manor. Wealthy scion, Antonio, and Jose, the housekeeper’s son...

World Cinema

• Stefan Haupt
• Switzerland
• 2001
• 97min

Never to live without passion. The future that Rafael wants for himself is encapsulated in these few words. He is the self-styled leader of the Utopia Blues Band, a rock group whic...

World Cinema

• Arturo Ripstein
• Spain,Mexico
• 2002
• 140min

Max Aub’s tale, The true story of Francisco Franco’s death, on which this film is based, suggests a fictitious version of the events around his death, which could not be explored a...

The Critics` Week

• Abderrahmane Sissako
• 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 ...

World Cinema

• Petr Zelenka
• Czech Republic
• 2002
• 88min

In Year of the Devil a Czech folk star, a band of funeral musicians, and a Dutch filmmaker stumble towards enlightenment on a remarkable musical tour. When the folk singer approach...

World Cinema

• Eytan Fox
• Israel
• 2002
• 65min

Based on a true story, Yossi & Jagger is about two men, Israeli army officers serving in Lebanon, who are also secret lovers. Yossi is the authoritative company commander. Jagger i...

Wide Angle

• Royston Tan
• Singapore
• 2002
• 25min

15 is a story about three delinquent teenagers who are trying to discover their identities in a fast developing society. The real street kids that appear on the screen add realism ...

Wide Angle

• Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• Iran
• 2001
• 46min

Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf takes his digital camera to the border villages between Iran and Afghanistan, where he focuses on children studying in UNICEF classes. Despite the end of...