Korean Panorama

• Kim Ki-Duk
• Korea
• 2000
• 85 min

It′s not unusual to witness surrealistic images in Kim Ki-Duk′s films, as they often cross the line between reality and the imagination. Even with such a title as ′state of reality...

Wide Angle

• Frances Reid,Deboran Hoffman
• United States
• 2000
• 90 min

For over forty years South Africa was governed by the most notorious form of racial domination since Nazi Germany. When it finally collapsed, those who had enforced apartheid′s rul...

Wide Angle

• Pavel Koutsky
• Czech Republic
• 2000
• 5 min

Mass media satisfies our need for information, as well as our longing for scandals, distraction, and excitement. As time passes and technological devices are perfected, we become m...

Wide Angle

• Ties Poeth
• the Netherlands
• 1999
• 11′ 12"

Music for an Owl is an animated film in which, during the four seasons, a striking picture of the animal life in an old Gothic church is sketched. The decaying church is gradually ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Farhad Mehranfar
• Iran
• 2000
• 83 min

Hollywood often condemns Iran as a country of terrorists, however the Iran that we see in their cinema is peaceful, beautiful and philosophical. A land endlessly tormented by war a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Tran Anh Hung
• Vietnam,France
• 2000
• 115 min

Five years after Cyclo, Tran Anh Hung presents his latest feature, set in the city of Hanoi. Twenty three year old Lien lives with her older brother, an actor, while working at her...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Edward Yang
• Taiwan,Japan
• 2000
• 173 min

Edward Yang brings us a thoughtful observation on the lives of diverse generations from young boy to a full-aged father and head of a family, with detailed sincerity. Computer exec...

Wide Angle

• Huang Chung-Hwa
• Taiwan
• 1999
• 98min

The unique world of Asian martial arts and the puppet theatre of Taiwan meet at the Legend of the Sacred Stone. Four hundred years ago, Monster Mo Kuei comes to stir the rivers and...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Riri Riza
• Indonesia
• 2000
• 114 min

Sherina is a tomboy who is good at singing, racing and climbing trees. Perhaps this is why putting band-aids on her knees seems to be her hobby. One day, her family leaves the big ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• JIANG Wen
• China
• 2000
• 160 min

In a Chinese remote village untouched by war. Ma Dasan gets a visit from a mysterious stranger, who identifies himself only as "Me,” menaces the terrified him and leaves in his car...