World Chinema

• Uruguay
• 2001
• 92min

Summer, Saturday, 7:14am. In their early twenties, Leche, Javi, and Seba are still up; tired and bored, sitting on the curbside, as usual, drinking the last beer. Leche is obsessed with his bad luck. He just stepped on dogshit and...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2001
• 11min

The main character climbs up to the top of an 8849m mountain after taking the Korean flag and a Polaroid camera from the busom of his colleage who is freezing to death. His only goal is to prove that he reached the mountain peak...

World Chinema

• Sweden
• 2001
• 102min

Bendricks are a middle class family in 1970s Sweden including Bosse, who built their home, Mona and their three children Ola(17), Katta(15) and Morgan(12). All is in order on the surface, but a closer look reveals that everythin...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2001
• 74min

A Dog′s Day quietly depicts the confusion and disorder caused by a dog donated to a town by a lord who gave up authority and declared democracy. This film indirectly suggests that at times high moral justifications are contradicto...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,France
• 2001
• 116min

Tsai Ming-Liang creates films that are the epitome of cinematic aestheticism in addition to being most memorable reports on isolation. The three protagonists, Hsiao Kang, Hsiao Kang′s mother, and Shiang-Chyi, all experience the di...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2001
• 9min 47sec

Black Soul is an exhilarating immersion into the heart of black culture via a whirlwind voyage through the defining moments of black history. As an old lady initiates her grandson into his past, a series of perpetually transformin...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan,Korea
• 2001
• 122min

Go suggests a new perspective on the Korean-Japanese issue. In the words of the writer of the original story, Kazuki Kaneshiro, Go is not about national identity but about a young man and his agony. Following his father′s wishes, ...

World Chinema

• France,Romania
• 2001
• 88min

Frant Tandara, a former torturer in the prisons of Communist Romania, agrees to confess his crimes to a journalist and a former political prisoner. He nervously awaits his visitors′s arrival at a train station. They drive to the f...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2001
• 112min

Incheon is a city where residents dream of living in Seoul, the city to which a connective railway was built. Incheon, with Korea′s first Chinatown, is also where foreigners heading to Seoul arrive for the first time. In this city...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2001
• 99min

Asked, "Do you want to play football or do you want money?", the consensus of the teenage boys playing football was "money." In Thailand, where football wagering is illegal, these boys, without the means of making a good living, s...