Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2001
• 87min

A new animated film by director Satoshi Kon and screenwriter Sadayuki Murai, who, with their film Perfect Blue, made an unprecedented effort to create a psycho-horror animation. Whereas their earlier film depicted a person′s inn...

New Currents

• Hong Kong
• 2001
• 97min

In 1989, events in Tiananmen Square shook the whole world. After that historic event, the lives of those who participated changed forever. What happened to them afterwards? The director, who as a college student participated in th...

Wide Angle

• Norway
• 2001
• 105min

This ′documentary musical′ gives us a closer look at the fishing village of Berlevag on the Barents Sea, a place made famous by Isak Dinesen′s novel Babette′s Feast. Today, its musical group, a thirty-member male choir, is the vil...

World Chinema

• Chile
• 2001
• 128min

Passion has its price when a repressed bachelor in a mid-life crisis falls for one of his teenaged servants. Don Andres is the last heir of the wealthy Avalos family. At an age of 58 he feels that life has been a long, unfulfilled...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2001
• 30min

A tired and dejected protagonist, short of the money needed for his mother′s hospital fees and in the middle of a relationship crisis with his girlfriend, discovers a bag full of money, instantly becoming a criminal. Can he evade ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2001
• 113min

The world is hell resembling a jungle. This jungle is so fierce one can never let one′s guard down. If one overcomes one evil human being, there are more to overcome. Sonny, the protagonist, is falsely accused of murder and is sen...

New Currents

• India
• 2001
• 72min

Dejavu is Biju Viswanath′s feature debut film after his participation in the PIFF with his short film Voyage. David is imprisoned in a lighthouse on an isolated island because of bad weather. As time goes by he is filled wit...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran,Japan
• 2001
• 96min

Delbaran is an international joint project by Iran and Japan, which depicts the life of a young Afghan boy, Kaim, in the Iranian border town of Delbaran. Kaim is a precocious boy who learns how the world functions. Kaim is a valet...

World Chinema

• Ireland
• 2001
• 94min

Although not related, Pig and Runt are born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. They are almost telepathic. Now sixteen, they have created an insular, and dangerous world inventing their own rules and language. O...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2001
• 90min

Singer Hahn Dae-Soo, who with his song ′Give Me Water′ sang about freedom, is a legendary artist who first introduced folk music to Korea. Due to political reasons, he had to leave the country and did not work as a musician for ne...