World Cinema

• Group Work
• Sweden
• 1999
• 119min

This unusual feature, initiated by the Goteborg film festival, has been in production all through the 90s. Each year a new director has been appointed to add a new episode, around ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Zhang Yimou
• China
• 2000
• 100 min

Zhang Yimou is too young to be considered ′old′, but it seems as time passes he is becoming more interested in the ′precious traditions′ that are slowly disappearing. In The Road H...

Wide Angle

• Michel OCELOT
• France
• 2000
• 70min

In this imaginative film of silhouette animation, a girl and a boy stage fantastic shows in a theater with the help of an old derelict technician. They transform into the hero and ...

Wide Angle

• Jasmila Zbanich
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2000
• 18 min

Jasna P. is one of the many desperate mothers completely destroyed by the war in Bosnia. Her husband, four-year-old son Amar, and nine-month-old daughter Ajla were allegedly killed...

Wide Angle

• Esen Isik
• Switzerland
• 1999
• 24 min

Meric, a five-year-old boy who lives with his family in a suburb of Istanbul, witnessed his father′s abduction by the secret police. Unable to cope with this traumatic experience, ...

Wide Angle

• Jean Rousselot
• France
• 1999
• 8′ 40"

Who is Alfred Lepetit, really? Unknown to the general public but glorified by the movie industry, Alfred is about to receive a lifetime achievement award for his film career... A p...

Open Cinema

• Alxendre Proshkin
• Russia,France
• 1999
• 112 min

Months before a single drop of blood was shed, no one could have told officer Pyotr Grinyov that rebellion was a senseless enterprise. If someone had unveiled her future at that po...

Special Retrospective Films of Krzysztof Zanussi

• Krzysztof ZANUSSI
• Poland
• 1984
• 107min

Emily and her mother are repatriated into Poland’s Western Territories from the eastern territories now taken over by the Soviet Union. They meet an American serviceman Norman, and...

New Current

• Daniel H. Byun
• Korea
• 2000
• 127 min

Eun-Suk wants to make a documentary film based on romances of everyday people through a series of interviews with passers-by. He attempts an interview with beauty parlor girl Young...

New Current

• Ryoo Seung-Wan
• Korea
• 2000
• 95 min

＂Die Bad isn’t just an ordinary omnibus-style film. The 1st part Rumble has action; horror conventions dominate Nightmare, the 2nd part; the 3rd part Our Contemporarie is a mock-do...