Wide Angle

• Raymond Red
• Philippines
• 2000
• 12 min

The film touches on the subject of the widening gap between the rich and poor, the powerful and the insignificant, representative of the overall situation in the Philippines today....

Wide Angle

• Royston Tan
• Singapore
• 2000
• 10 min

This film seeks to give a pictorial view of a father, after his passing from life, seeking to reach out to his son. His lamentations of his incapability to identity with his son a...

Wide Angle

• Ali Mohammad Ghasemi
• Iran
• 2000
• 11 min

In the middle of the road, a camel is being hoarded away on a truck. As it gazes in awe at the wonders of the city, it is unaware of its final destination, that being the butcher′s...

Wide Angle

• Abdul Nizam,CheeK,James Toh
• Singapore
• 2000
• 100 min

The love of contemporary people is too complicated to express with traditional language. People set off to find the right ones in order to escape from their loneliness, however, fi...

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• Samira MAKHMALBAF
• Iran
• 2000
• 85 min

The Apple brought worldwide fame to Samira Makhmalbaf, who was just 18 year-old when she directed this film. Shooting began when she saw a television broadcast about a 65 year-old ...

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• Mohsen MAKHMALBAF
• Iran,France
• 2000
• 95 min

As a young man, Mohsen Makhmalbaf served time in jail for an attack on police while demonstrating against the Palebi Administration. Now a middle-aged filmmaker, he recruited actor...

Wide Angle

• Gani Kistauov,Kim Daeseung
• Kazakhstan
• 2000
• 26′ 30"

Animated cartoon film The Dragon’s Island is a result of a transformation of classical Japanese literature(Akutagawa Ryunoske ‘The Twilight of Life’) into a graphically unique film...

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• Maysam MAKHMALBAF
• Iran
• 2000
• 76 min

A girl′s dream of voluntarily leaving school to make films is perhaps much more dramatic than a film itself. She learned film from her father, and finally came to make films with h...

Wide Angle

• Rithy Panh
• Cambodia
• 2000
• 98 min

There was a nation-wide construction project in Cambodia in 1999. As a cable line was constructed from the border of Thailand to Vietnam through Cambodia, Cambodia entered the Info...

Wide Angle

• Balaka Ghosh
• INDIA
• 2000
• 20min

Kedarnath, located in the Himalayas, is a sacred place for the Hindus. Here there are coolies who carry pilgrims physically incapable of climbing to the top of the mountain. Their ...