Wide Angle

• Katsuyuki Hirano
• Japan
• 2000
• 118 min

This film, made by one man alone, is the story of one man crossing the coldest region in Japan in the middle of a freezing cold winter. Beginning with the loose rhythm of jazz, The...

Wide Angle

• Toshiaki Toyoda
• Japan
• 2000
• 98 min

Kaji Toshiro nicknamed himself ‘Unchain’ after the Ray Charles song ＂Unchain my Heart.＂ He became a pro boxer in 1988 and had just seven bouts (one draw, no wins) before nerve para...

Wide Angle

• Yoshiaki Kawajiri
• Japan
• 2000
• 102 min

An anime produced for the US and worldwide market with the help of an American screenwriter, a television series, and an international company. Vampire Hunter D introduces an anti-...

Open Cinema

• Xie Fei
• China
• 2000
• 104 min

Based on the original story by Zaxidawa, this film is set in Tibet and spans 50 years of love and hate between one beautiful woman, who represents motherhood, and three men who eac...

Special Programs in Focus

• Samira MAKHMALBAF
• Iran
• 2000
• 85 min

Blackboards deals with educators in search of students in the hinterland of war-ravaged region. It also deals with weary lives of Kurds, a minority group alienated by the Iranian s...

Closing Film

• Wong Kar-Wai
• Hong Kong
• 2000
• 97 min

Since Days of Being Wild, filmmaker Won Kar Wai returns to 1960s Hong Kong to tell the tale of an adulterous affair involving two couples. Chief editor of a local daily newspaper, ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Mohsen MAKHMALBAF
• Iran
• 2000
• 22 min

The Door is a part of an omnibus film, The Tales of Kish, sponsored by the Bureau of Tourism of Kish Island where there is a famous resort. Nasser Taghvai, Abolfazl Jalili, and Bah...

Special Programs in Focus

• Darezhan Omirbaev
• Kazakhstan
• 2000
• 73 min

This film is a study of the psychology of a child′s soul who is in the process of adapting to unfarmiliar and unaccustomed environment. A cardiogram reveals the heart disease endur...

Special Programs in Focus

• Bakhtiyar Khudojnazarov
• Tadjikistan
• 2000
• 107 min

This film tells the themes of ′love′ and ′life′ in a beautiful and fantastic, yet sad fashion. In a small village 17 year old girl Mamlakat lives with her father and an ignorant br...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Takashi Miike
• Japan
• 2000
• 105 min

Filmmaker, Takashi Miike, known for his rich ideas and dynamic directing approach, a quality which even Hollywood has taken notice of, presents The City of Lost Souls, based on the...