The Critics` Week

• 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 places into a space of comedy. Suleiman’s acting-with ...

Wide Angle

• 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 Bangkok, familiar streets and landscapes, all of whi...

Closing Film

• Japan
• 2002
• 113min

Takeshi Kitano’s films always contain intense energy hidden beneath their apparent tranquility and reticence. Sometimes that energy can be violence and, at other times, obsession. Dolls is a film about love that is controlled and ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 31min

Thanksgiving holidays. Cousin Jang-chul, who is preparing for the college entrance exam, comes to stay with his cousin′s family for a while. Jang-ju decides to teach her hard-headed cousin, Jang-chul about real life. Five days lat...

Open Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 113 min

In Taipei, the teeming modern capital of Taiwan, a corporate CEO freezes to death on a steaming hot day. Then the notorious mistress of a politician burns to death in a room untouched by flames. Ace detective Huang Huo-to discover...

The Critics` Week

• 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 a world of hell. Eddie, in his thirties, and Maria...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2002
• 80min

April 1980, a month before the Gwangju democratic movement; a number of miners in Kangwon province, who were picketing for the elimination of the government-sponsored labor union, were deliberately run over by a police car. In tur...

World Cinema

• 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 Zapa cracks the safe. The clients - police officers...

New Current

• Indonesia
• 2002
• 83min

Eliana lives in Jakarta after leaving her hometown. Her mother Bunda is trying to take her back home. Eliana, Eliana is about the conflicts between mother and daughter during a single night. In this low-budget digital adventure fi...

World Cinema

• 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 after his release from prison, he immediately resorts...