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Kitchen StoriesKitchen Stories (Salmer fra kjøkkenet) (2003) Recommended
Dir. Bent Hamer
Feat. Tomas Norstrom, Joachim Calmeyer, Reine Brynolfsson
A slyly humourous offering from Scandanavia, examining the efforts of the (real–life) Swedish Home Research Institute to improve lives of…
KoktebelKoktebel (2003)
Dir. Boris Khlebnikov, Alexei Popogrebsky
Feat. Gleb Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich
A delicately imagined journey through the Ukrainian countryside in the company of a widower and his 11–year old son, who set off on foot from…
Last Life in the UniverseLast Life in the Universe (2003) Recommended
Dir. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Feat. Tadanobu Asano, Riki Takeuchi, Sinitta Boonyasak
With a cool command of the aloof, this strange, seductive noir–romance merges the soulless existence of a suicidal librarian (Asano), a…
Love Me If You DareLove Me If You Dare (Jeux d'enfants) (2003)
Dir. Yann Samuell
Feat. Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet
Two French kids develop an intense relationship through escalating games of "dare" that bond and haunt them through a turbulent teenage and…
Miracle of Bern, TheMiracle of Bern, The (2003)
Dir. Sonke Wortmann
Set in grim post–WW2 West Germany, this passionate, if broadly–handled drama respools a backdrop of events leading to the shock triumph…
Monsieur IbrahimMonsieur Ibrahim (2003)
Dir. Francois Dupeyron
Feat. Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger
Set on the multicultural streets of 1960s working–class Paris, this warm–hearted tale has a Sufi grocery store owner befriend a lonely…
Nathalie...Nathalie... (2003)
Dir. Anne Fontaine
Feat. Emmanuelle Beart, Fanny Ardant, Gerard Depardieu
Steamy French confection involves frustrated wife Ardant in hiring prostitute Beart to seduce her philandering husband (Depardieu), and bring her…
Noi AlbinoiNoi Albinoi (Noi the Albino) (2003) Recommended
Dir. Dagur Kari
Feat. Tomas Lemarquis, Pröstur Leó Gunnarsson
Distinctive drama about a 'gifted' 17–year–old who rebels against the limits of life in a remote Icelandic town. Brimming with…
Nowhere in AfricaNowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika) (2003)
Dir. Caroline Link
Feat. Juliane Kohler
An old–fashioned epic of family survival, where a privileged Jewish family migrate from 1938 Nazi Germany into the exotic vastness of…
OsamaOsama (2003) Aro Favourite
Dir. Siddiq Barmak
Feat. Marina Golbahari
Though nothing to do with a certain infamous terrorist, this first Afghani film made since the rise and fall of the Taliban also happens to be a…
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