New Currents

• Iran
• 2003
• 95min

Living in a neigbourhood of immigrants, Azerbajanu young Nazar is obliged to divorce his wife, Reyhaneh, by his insiting relatives. The only thing he can do for his ex-wife is to pay her marriage portion by installments, but he fa...

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!

• Korea
• 2003
• 88m

Shin Sung-il, a star actor of youth films, and Twist Kim appear in this youth action film. Duk-tae works at the pub and he revenges on the man who abandoned his older sister by approaching and luring the man′s younger sister, Youn...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2003
• 104min

This is the newest film by William Kwok, whose In The Dumps was presented in ′Wide Angle′ in the 3rd PIFF. The film features a virgin killed by a rapist, dead virgins on trade for spiritual weddings with dead bachelors, the two fr...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2003
• 86min

A favorite subject of filmmakers is ′youth′, especially stories of young people struggling for love in their suffocating reality. Deep Breath, beginning with a scene of a body pulled out from a river, depicts the stories of youth ...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2003
• 8min

Anticipation highlights greed and green lights rageful abuse as two friends compete for the rights to possess a delivered package. Was the catastrophic result of this vicious conflict worth the prize found within the box? Despite ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!

• Hong Kong
• 2003
• 96m

This is Chung Chang-wha′s first film produced after he moved to Golden Harvest. After having produced sword fighting actions at the Shaw Brothers, he returned to his original trademark of modern action. This movie is about a poor ...

World Cinema

• Turkey
• 2003
• 110m

Not only does Nuri Bilge Ceylan write and direct his films, he also photographs and edits them. Their composition, pace and lack of overt narrative have elicited comparison to auteurs such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonio...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2003
• 105m

The river Oder between Poland and Germany marks a crossroads between two worlds. It draws people from all walks of life on their journey towards imagined happiness, security, and a better life in the West, It′s a place where Ukrai...

Wide Angle

• Armenia
• 2003
• 62m

The main hero of the film is the documentary maker who shoots with his small crew. He compiles a mosaic of diverse images that is Armenia in the 1990s: child beggars, disabled children abandoned by their parents, lost refugees, a...

Opening Film

• Japan
• 2003
• 107min

Kiyoshi Kurosawa, in his films, often talks about the coexistence of what is and what is not in everyday. He also deals with the coexistence of what is believed not to be and what is forgotten just like life and death as well as t...