World Cinema

• Jorge Ali Triana
• Colombia
• 2002
• 92min

In a frenzy, actor Santiago Miranda storms out of the taping of the national soap opera, The Loves of the Liberator based on the life of the great South American hero, Simon Boliva...

World Cinema

• Ulrich KÖHLER
• Germany
• 2002
• 84min

Paul can’t seem to escape the dreariness of small-town life, and his decision to do military service, motivated only by a desire to spite his left-wing family, only makes his situa...

World Cinema

• Delphine Gleize
• France,Spain,Belgium
• 2002
• 130min

During a bullfight, a young matador is gored and the bull, Romero, killed. That is the beginning rather than the end of this tale, however, which actually explores what happens to ...

World Cinema

• Manon Briand
• Canada,France
• 2002
• 115min

Alice, a seismologist working in Tokyo, is sent to a small town on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River to observe a peculiar phenomenon: the complete cessation of the tidal c...

World Cinema

• Alexander Rogozhkin
• Russia
• 2002
• 100min

During World War II, Russian soldiers used the term “cuckoo” to refer to enemy Finnish snipers who, despite being sorely outnumbered and poorly equipped, inflicted serious damage o...

The Critics` Week

• Elia SULEIMAN
• 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 plac...

The Critics` Week

• Marius HOLST
• 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 ...

World Cinema

• Pablo Trapero
• Argentina,France
• 2002
• 97min

Thirty-five-year-old Zapa is a locksmith in rural Argentina. When his boss asks him to do a job for some special clients, he’s more than willing. They break into a drug store and Z...

World Cinema

• Sinisa Dragin
• Romania
• 2002
• 93min

Someone who kills animals by trade is a ‘butcher’; someone who kills people by impulse is a ‘murderer’. Dumitru is both, and seemingly unable to be otherwise. On the train home aft...

World Cinema

• Fridrik Thor FRIDRIKSSON
• Iceland
• 2002
• 96min

Simon, who has taken too many punches from this world and has done too much time in U.S. prisons, returns to his ancestral homeland, Iceland, resigned to do himself in. But before ...