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And Along Came a Spider
  • Maziar Bahari
  • Iran
  • 2002
  • 52min

This documentary tells the appalling tale of sixteen prostitutes murdered in the city of Mashad. These ‘Spider Killings’ were committed by a 39-year-old man, who believed that his ...

Korea Premiere

Wide Angle

Captive, Waiting
  • Mohammad Ahmadi
  • Iran
  • 2002
  • 23min

A prisoner of the war between Iran and Iraq, ‘I’ has been writing a letter to his son whom he has never seen for the 18 years. Finally, ‘I’ was placed on the list of prisoners to b...

Korea Premiere

Wide Angle

The Cherries Which Were Canned
  • Mohamad Shirvani
  • Iran
  • 2002
  • 13min

Her beloved husband is sent to the front line just two months before he is to be discharged from military service. When she is informed of her husband’s death in battle, she tries ...

Korea Premiere

Wide Angle

Daughter from Yan′an
  • Ikeya Kaoru
  • Japan
  • 2001
  • 120min

One of the unknown aspects of the Cultural Revolution was the banning of love, which according to the revolutionaries, was considered decadent and capitalist. However no policy can...

Korea Premiere

Wide Angle

Dog & God
  • Saranyoo Jiralak
  • Thailand
  • 2002
  • 9min

In a small fishing village, a dog is reminiscing about its happy moments with his owner’s family. His memories reveal a kind and warm-hearted couple, their daughter who left for Ba...

Korea Premiere

Wide Angle

God′s Children
  • Hiroshi Shinomiya
  • Japan
  • 2001
  • 105min

God’s Children sends a message of hope from the world’s largest garbage dumps located in the outskirts of Manila. This place, which goes by the name Smokey Mountain, is the home of...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

Green Rose
  • JC Hung
  • Taiwan
  • 2002
  • 12min

Based on a true story, Green Rose is about Professor Chen Wen-Chen’s mysterious murder. In 1981, Professor Chen was having difficulties with the Kuo Ming Tang, the Chinese National...

Korea Premiere

Wide Angle

Jam Films
  • Shinohara Tetsuo,Isao Yukisada,Rokuro Mochizuki,George Iida,Yukihoko Tsutsumi,Ryuhei Kitamura
  • Japan
  • 2002
  • 110min

The short film is neither a preparation stage for a feature film nor a mere exercise for the director. In order to draw the public’s attention to short films, in May of 2002, seven...

Korea Premiere

Wide Angle

My Life as McDull
  • Toe Yuen
  • Hong Kong
  • 2001
  • 75min

After Chow Yun Fat, Jet Li, and Stephen Chow we are about to witness the arrival of a new icon from Hong Kong. My Life as McDull is an animation that bravely sets foot in a world d...

Korea Premiere

Wide Angle

Pick of the Litter - Stray Dogs in Taiwan
  • Chu Hsien-Jer
  • Taiwan
  • 2001
  • 63min

Since 1996, director Chu Hsien-jer has documented the abused animals of Taiwan. In Pick of the Litter-Stray dogs in Taiwan, he views the life of a woman who takes care of the stray...

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