New Current

• Hassan Yektapanah
• Iran
• 2000
• 94 min

A film about alienation and relationships. When his love for a woman 12 years his senior is thwarted, Djomeh from Afghanistan joins Habib at a dairy farm in the remote mountainous ...

Wide Angle

• Jamsheed Akrami
• Iran
• 1999
• 108 min

Friendly Persuasion: Iranian Cinema after the Revolution is a documentary that presents itself as a research paper on the history, industry and aesthetics of Iranian filmmaking. Wh...

New Current

• Vivian Chang
• Taiwan
• 2000
• 98 min

Everyone desires to change his or her reality. Director Vivian Chang presents such desire from a woman′s point-of-view in this film made up of three different episodes: a five year...

New Current

• Makoto Shinozaki
• Japan
• 2000
• 120 min

Ex-critic Makoto Shinozaki′s new feature is rich enough to seem like several films in one. At one level it′s a film about the trials and tribulations of old age - an urgent issue i...

New Current

• Isao Yukisada
• Japan
• 2000
• 121 min

This is the second film of Isao Yukisada, who used to work as Shunji lwai′s assistant director. The delicate psychological articulations and the protagonist′s realization of love, ...

New Current

• Ding Jiancheng
• China
• 2000
• 65 min

Like filmmaker Ding Jiancheng′s statement on life, which he describes as "life is as fragile as a piece of paper," this film articulates this point as a Cine-Poem. During the Cultu...

Wide Angle

• Wei Te-Shen
• Taiwan
• 1999
• 72 min

A heated summer in northern Taiwan cultivates a young man′s anguish. His name, Cheng-jia, is somewhat ironic. ＂Cheng-jia＂, in Chinese, means to build a family and settle down. Howe...

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• Mahvash Sheikholeslami
• Iran
• 1999
• 15 min

An ordinary village in the Iranian countryside. A young girl, who is being married off the next day, spends her last time with friends. As day breaks, she follows her husband on a ...

Wide Angle

• Sakhya Byamba,Kim Daeseung,Peter Brosens
• Mongol
• 1999
• 50 min

A lyrical documentary that introduces the ordinary lives of people in Mongolia through poetry and song. The world is changing too rapidly to catch up with, and people who have lo...

Wide Angle

• Goutam Ghose
• India
• 1999
• 100 min

A portrait of the world-renowned filmmaker, Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), hailed as the god of the Indian cinema. Ray was born in Calcutta in 1921, and raised in an atmosphere that was...