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Shorts
  • Toshihiro Isomi
  • Japan
  • 2001
  • 65min

With a running time under an hour, this eccentric film titled "Shorts" contains four short films. This film is unique not only because of its tongue-in-cheek title, but also becaus...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

Stranger and Native
  • Ali Mohammad Ghasemi
  • Iran
  • 2001
  • 13min

Strangers invade a sacred, fog-ridden forest, hunting for rabbits surprised, an indigenous forest-dweller tracks for the hunters by listening to the sound of their shotguns. The fo...

Korea Premiere

Wide Angle

A Vanishing Trade
  • Dulamsuren Tsesnddori,Tumendemberel Sarantuya
  • Mongolia
  • 2001
  • 23min

A Vanishing Trade is a story about a cinema operator. Kharkhuu, as before, has been traveling to remote herders′ families to show films, thus continuing the old and a...

Korea Premiere

Wide Angle

Wheelchair
  • Eric Lau
  • Hong Kong
  • 2001
  • 34min

A man prepares to buy a wheelchair for his physically-challenged father, who would like to take outings in the park. But as a poor salary man the wheelchair beyond his means. He se...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

Adagio
  • Garrie Bardine
  • Russia
  • 2000
  • 10min

A gray anonymous mob wanders aimlessly in a storm. Suddenly a bright white individual appears among them. The hateful mob at first tries to destroy the individual but after its res...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

Alone
  • Audrius Stonys
  • Lithuania
  • 2001
  • 16min

A sad girl is on her way to visit her mother in prison. Her loneliness is immense. Director Stonys is obsessed by the concept of ′pure cinema′. A shot of the girl′s face is enough ...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

Black Soul
  • Martine Chartrand
  • Canada
  • 2000
  • 9min 47sec

Black Soul is an exhilarating immersion into the heart of black culture via a whirlwind voyage through the defining moments of black history. As an old lady initiates...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

The Boy who Saw the Iceberg
  • Paul Driessen
  • Canada
  • 2000
  • 9min

The young protagonist, bored with his lot, imagines a diabolic and dangerous life of adventure. The would-be hero is accustomed to eluding mobsters and monsters in his daydreams, b...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

Cool & Crazy
  • Knut Erik Jensen
  • Norway
  • 2000
  • 105min

This ′documentary musical′ gives us a closer look at the fishing village of Berlevag on the Barents Sea, a place made famous by Isak Dinesen′s novel Babette′s Feast. ...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

Egg Lady
  • Una Celma
  • Latvia,Sweden
  • 2000
  • 26min

A portrait of a woman who has spent every day for nearly 20 years doing the same monotonous, repetitive work, but who is, nonetheless, quite happy with her life. She is at peace wi...

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Busan Office 3rd Floor, BIFF HILL, Busan Cinema Center, 120, Suyeonggangbyeon-daero, Haeundae-gu, Busan 48058, Korea
Seoul Office #1601, GARDEN TOWER, 84, Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03131, Korea