World Cinema

• Stephen Daldry
• UK
• 2000
• 110 min

Billy is an eleven-year-old growing up in northern England. His father and older brother are on strike indefinitely from working in the mines. To help restore the family′s honour, ...

World Cinema

• Nana Djordjadze
• Germany,Georgia
• 2000
• 96 min

It was a summer unlike any other. Sybille promised Mickey one hundred kisses before the autumn. But he only got 73. The summer of the eclipse, fourteen year-old Sybille, arrives in...

Wide Angle

• Victor Asliuk
• Belarus
• 2000
• 27 min

Andrei works as a clown in a hospital where children are treated for cancer. He injures himself and can only get around on crutches. Hearing of a way to protect people from illness...

Wide Angle

• Lee Dong-Ha
• Korea
• 2000
• 32min

This film is the report on the everyday life of a post-graduate unable to adapt to social circumstances. The hero wishes to compose sincere writings from the heart but finds it to ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Yusup Razykov
• Uzbekistan
• 1998
• 83 min

Orator discloses the dark side of the glory of the Russian Revolution through a compassionate gaze upon the people whose lives had been helplessly racked by its iron principles. Th...

World Cinema

• Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Turkey
• 2000
• 130 min

A young filmmaker, Muzaffer, returns to the small Anatolian village where to grew up, resolved to capture something of its idyllic charm on film. His father, Emin, has no time for ...

World Cinema

• Berit Nesheim
• Norway
• 1999
• 98 min

This is a story of Eva, a single mother who struggles to support herself and her daughter Jenny. She is tired of jobs like night duty at the local hospital and house cleaning for r...

World Cinema

• Florian Flicker
• Austria
• 2000
• 84 min

Andreas is unemployed, divorced and at the end of his rope. His alimony is in arrears and he doesn′t even have enough cash to buy his son a birthday present. His despair leads him ...

Wide Angle

• Jerome Boulbes
• France
• 1999
• 8min

To get out of a well and reach for the light, a small creature clings to a gas bubble. He rises, holding tight to the bubble, crossing hostile spaces, standing up to cold, darkness...

Wide Angle

• Johan van der Keuken
• the Netherlands
• 2000
• 142 min

In October 1998, Johan van der Keuken called his radiologist at the Academic Hospital in Utrecht from Paris and heard that he only had a few years to live. Prostate cancer had take...