Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2003
• 78min

Chen-Mo, who illegally sells flowers in the street and Meiting, who works at a barbershop, are just two people living in the gutters of Beijing. They meet by chance and end up moving in together. There is no such thing as a future...

Wide Angle

• Finland
• 2003
• 3m

Opened in 1989, Mangyongdae Schoolchildren′s Palace is a comprehensive center of after-school education which can accommodate more than 5000 students a day. Take a journey through the more than 200 study and activity rooms, an ind...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 21m

Eun-soo is a new graduate student. When she visits her hometown, she has an argument with her estranged father. When she was younger and pretended to be ill, her father would buy herfried rice to make her feel better. But as she g...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2003
• 16m

The boy works at a poster manufacturing factory carrying ink barrels. By mistake he delivers the ink to the wrong place and the printed posters are ruined. The boy pastes these posters in his room and while looking at them he imag...

Wide Angle

• Australia
• 2003
• 15m

Eddie spends her pocket money obsessively hoarding fireworks and carefully planning for cracker night. When it finally it arrives, Eddie and her family head to the local football oval. In the frosty air Eddie lights the fuse of he...

Special Programs in Focus

• Canada,France,UK
• 2003
• 98m

Based on J.G. Ballard′s controversial 1973 science fiction novel of the same name. David Cronenberg′s Crash is a study of the intersection of eroticism and technology, which is manifested in the sexual passion provoked by tragic a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2003
• 97min

Crimson Gold opens with a striking scene of a jewelry shop robbery that ends In failure. A robber kills the shop′s owner and then shoots himself In the head. This cruel scene that the camera captures in a single take in fact is fa...

World Cinema

• Slovakia,CzechRep.
• 2003
• 104m

In the autumn of 1932, three men, Gabriel, Martin and Karol are all bathing in a large lake and are watching a beautiful woman who is reading a book under a tree. The woman, Helena is beautiful, intelligent, liberated, but despite...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2003
• 105min

Jairaj and Ratna, famous traditional dancers, are very worried about their daughter Lata′s upcoming debut and also her marriage. Lata′s fiance, Viswas, is a nice young man from a wealthy merchant family but knows nothing about dan...

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...