World Chinema

• Morocco,France,Belgium
• 2001
• 95min

Casablanca is home to kids who sleep in the open air and support themselves through petty crime under the tutelage of Dib, boss of their scruffy underage Mafia. Four of the gang, Ali, Kouka, Omar, and Boubker, rebel against Dib′s ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2001
• 146min

Shunji Iwai is famous for bringing out forgotten memories from his viewers. He is also famous for doing this with brilliant visual effects. This time his focus is on the ′14-year-old,′ a new social phenomenon in Japan. A sophomo...

Wide Angle

• Lithuania
• 2001
• 16min

A sad girl is on her way to visit her mother in prison. Her loneliness is immense. Director Stonys is obsessed by the concept of ′pure cinema′. A shot of the girl′s face is enough for him to charge the action with emotion, trembli...

World Chinema

• Sweden
• 2001
• 160min

Elsa Andersson grows up on a farm in Sweden in the early 20th century. Her mother dies while giving birth to Elsa′s little sister, leaving Elsa with only her father and brother. Then, a housekeeper arrives and starts an affair wit...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2001
• 117min

Woo-In is an employee for a down-block office in Seoul. His everyday life is filled with repetitive and meaningless tasks. But things are about to change when two women enter Woo-In′s life. Woo-In finds the girl of his dreams, Asa...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2001
• 100min

Han-Ki, a boss of the red district hoodlums, accidentally meets a female college student on the street. Intrigued, he stares at her, and she coldly stares back. Han-Ki forces the girl to kiss him, much to her disgust. Like a chara...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2001
• 119min

A long time ago, the population of Bang Rajan rose up and sacrificed their lives courageously fighting against the Burmese forces. With a storyline that seems plucked from a history book, this film received raved reviews and was o...

World Chinema

• United States
• 2001
• 130min

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2000 Venice Film Festival, Before Night Falls is a richly imagined journey into the life and writings of the brilliant Cuban author and exile Reinaldo Arenas. This film spans the whole of Aren...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2001
• 110min

A new film by Mabel Cheung, who previously released An Autumn′s Tale and City of Glass. Michael, a problematic child, temporarily moves to China to study, at his father′s insistence. Instead of studying, Michael joins a rock band ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2001
• 8min

Burglars, who had crept into a house in the night, get into a fight with the father of the house. The man′s daughter wakes and joins in. After the ferocious encounter, the trespassers die. Even with its short running time, the fil...