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...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2001
• 126min

After abandoning her infant in a restroom, Hye-Na sets out on a trip to find her mother. On her journey, she meets Ok-Nam, a woman who prostituted herself in order to buy her child a piano. The bus leads them into an unknown mount...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2001
• 94min

Iranian culture is a culture that is mixed with Persian and Islamic elements. Just like in many other regions, in Iran there have always been folk songs, lullabies, hymns and work songs that have depicted the life and pains of p...

New Currents

• India
• 2001
• 72min

Dejavu is Biju Viswanath′s feature debut film after his participation in the PIFF with his short film Voyage. David is imprisoned in a lighthouse on an isolated island because of bad weather. As time goes by he is filled wit...

New Currents

• Hong Kong
• 2001
• 97min

In 1989, events in Tiananmen Square shook the whole world. After that historic event, the lives of those who participated changed forever. What happened to them afterwards? The director, who as a college student participated in th...

New Currents

• India
• 2001
• 101min

A quiet yet enraged social commentary by Digvijay Singh. In India, some monks still perform ritualistic rape on girls who have just started their period. All in the name and for the grace of god. Maya began with newspaper reports ...

New Currents

• Indonesia
• 2001
• 106min

Whispering Sands is a muted story of the relationship between a soul-searching village girl and her jaded, possessive mother. Daya′s father, who was a traveling medicine peddler, deserted the family long ago. As a single mother,...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2001
• 82min

A Drowning Man begins with the narration by Kumiko who says, "if we can dream after death, then death is not that bad, even if the dream is boring". This film explores love buried under daily routines and marriage problems, by emp...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2001
• 83min

Rebellion is one of the key elements of teen movies, and for teen movies set in classrooms, rebellion against the repressive educational system and conservative elders are two key elements. Toshiyaki Toyoda′s Blue Spring seems to ...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2001
• 84min

Four cars are driving through the northern regions of Iran. The passengers are all from different classes and have different destinations. They do not know each other, they just happen to be driving along the same road: a middle...