World Cinema

• Australia
• 2000
• 118 min

JM, a young Japanese man, leads a solitary, uneventful life in Tokyo, his only company a couple of rare snakes. He dreams of owning a very special car- a 1967 Citroen DS. Via the Internet, JM makes contact with a seller, and flies...

World Cinema

• Portugal,France,Italy
• 2000
• 124 min

Portugal, 1974: There is increasing civilian unrest against the oppression induced by the Fascist regime. Any critical voice against the Salazar government is instantly silenced by brutality and imprisonment. University professor ...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2000
• 100 min

Middle-aged Hanna Flanders lives in a posh Munich apartment and hangs on to the faded fame she earned as a left-wing writer many years ago. Abuse of prescription drugs, make-up and flamboyant wigs can no longer cover up the pains ...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2000
• 114 min

The events of this film begin with the return of the beautiful young Tania to her small mining village. She has spent the past five years working as a model; but, tired of life in the big city, she overwhelms her shy childhood swe...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2000
• 102 min

Gripsholm plunges the audience into the pleasure-craving, decadent world of Berlin cabaret at the beginning of the 1930s. That was the time when the last taboos were torn down and fig leaves quickly became a thing of the past. Kur...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2000
• 97 min

Gerry is still at school and his best mate Sewell is unemployed. Owning two season tickets to their beloved football club is their biggest dream of all. The tickets cost 1000 pounds. But they′re nothing if not resourceful. While t...

World Cinema

• Brazil
• 2000
• 102 min

In a dusty village in remote, northeastern Brazil, we meet Darlene, an impoverished peasant girl. Abandoned by the father of her unborn child, she leaves town for the big city. Three years later she returns with her baby to bury h...

World Cinema

• France
• 2000
• 111 min

Sybille still lives at home with her parents, remains a virgin, and is so painfully modest that she takes off her bra under her nightgown even in private. She has a boring job in a bank. She reads romance novels on her endless com...

World Cinema

• France,Switzerland
• 2000
• 111 min

The film, with six intertitles for each section: "Prologue," "The Girls Are Five," "Kids," "Heartthrobs," "Holiday in Italy," "The Final Exam Year," and "Adulthood," is a story of four 13-year-old girls, Emilie, Stella, Ines and M...

World Cinema

• Tunisie
• 2000
• 124 min

Aicha is a young woman of 18 who must stay in Djerba while her husband, Said, works eleven months of the year in Tunis. Aicha expresses her desire to leave for Tunis. The brave and bold young woman proposes to weave carpets in ord...