Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2001
• 9min 47sec

Black Soul is an exhilarating immersion into the heart of black culture via a whirlwind voyage through the defining moments of black history. As an old lady initiates her grandson into his past, a series of perpetually transformin...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2001
• 83min

Rebellion is one of the key elements of teen movies, and for teen movies set in classrooms, rebellion against the repressive educational system and conservative elders are two key elements. Toshiyaki Toyoda′s Blue Spring seems to ...

World Chinema

• Slovenia
• 2001
• 68min

Ivan is dismissed a day early from his alcoholism treatment program because of a strike by medical personnel. His first day back home passes pleasantly thanks to Sonja′s hopes for a brighter future. The next morning, Sonja sends I...

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong,China
• 2001
• 11min

On the outskirts of a small town, a bus driver and her passengers encounter highway robbers. The robbers take the female bus driver in an attempt to rape her, but the passengers don′t have the guts to intervene. Finally, a young m...

World Chinema

• Norway
• 2001
• 102min

The entire extended family is happily on its way to a nostalgic Christmas at a rented cabin in the mountains. The cabin becomes cramped, however, when mom and dad and four grown-up children with their respective families, a dog ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2001
• 90min

Set in Wolgot, a small village located in the West Sea, camel(s) is a black & white film about a one-night stand involving a middle-aged couple. Director Park Ki-Yong, who made his debut 5 years ago with Motel Cactus, directed t...

World Chinema

• Canada
• 2001
• 95min

Century Hotel is a sumptuous and stirring epic of an anonymous hotel room that, over the course of a century, sees every kind of human drama. Through a series of seven intricately woven stories we witness the defining moments in t...

Open Cinema

• France
• 2001
• 90min

Yann studies literature at a French provincial university. One day, he falls under the spell of the name of an author: Marguerite Duras. He avidly reads everything he can lay his hands on. For five years he writes her several lett...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2001
• 98min

Singapore′s very first romantic comedy, Chicken Rice War is a fusion film, mixing chicken rice with Shakespeare′s Romeo and Juliet. Fenson and Audrey come from two chicken rice-making families who have been rivals for 20 years. Wh...

World Chinema

• Hungary,Germany,Croatia,Chile
• 2001
• 108min

What might happen to a man born in Latin America, part Hungarian, part Catholic, part Jewish and has been groomed to be a Communist since he was a toddler? As a child he is obliged to wander from the nation of Che Guevara and Salv...