Open Cinema

• France
• 2001
• 119min

Intimacy starts where most films leave off: in bed, or more precisely on the floor, because that′s exactly where Jay and Claire′s Wednesday appointments are held: they meet to have sex and both stick to an unwritten vow of silen...

World Chinema

• Poland
• 2001
• 100min

Yo-Yo is 16 years old and has a flair for electronics and petty theft. At home mad parties, fights and drinking-bouts are an everyday occurrence. His greatest dream is to join Mak′s gang, which specializes in stealing the most ele...

World Chinema

• Denmark
• 2001
• 112min

This film follows the stories of six insecure singles whose lives interweave one dreary Copenhagen winter. Soon after arriving in a small gray suburb, Andreas, a young sensitive minister, is persuaded to sign up for Italian lesson...

World Chinema

• Sweden
• 2001
• 88min

Mans and Roro best friends in their 20s. Mans is a tall Swede with a shaved head, Roro is the son of Arab immigrants. Roro plans to introduce his Swedish girlfriend to his large family, but he′s afraid of their reaction. Mans and ...

Open Cinema

• Thailand
• 2001
• 120min

The modernist of Thai cinema, Nonzee Nimibutr is back with a film about "sexuality". On the surface, Jan Dara is a film about growing up. However, ultimately, this film boldly depicts the double-faced nature of human beings thro...

Open Cinema

• France
• 2001
• 107min

Before the First World War, an Austrian, Jules, and a Frenchman, Jim, become friends. They share each other′s confidences, read and translate each other′s poems and visit each other. Later, they meet Catherine and both fall in lov...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2001
• 85min

A director shouts. In a land where in the course of twenty years 2.5 million people died of hunger and war, and where 6.5 million still wander as refugees, he screams, risking his own life. Kandahar is a film with a message to the...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2001
• 41min

Women filmmakers in Korea have had to endure prejudice, discrimination, and contempt simply because they are female. Under the good name of ′women′ they were robbed of their creativity. For them, filmmaking was a forbidden desire....

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2001
• 105min

A film about five killers and their mishaps. It′s the year 2011. The economy has collapsed and the US dollar is the currency of the State. Pae Bufgun, a washed-up hitman just out of prison, is mistakenly hired to assassinate Bangk...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2001
• 50min

It is hard to accept something ′as it is,′ or as a whole. This is because of people′s inclination for selectivity; we give an object a meaning by selecting bits and pieces of it according to own perspective. This is more so when o...