Open Cinema

• Austria,France
• 2001
• 130min

La Pianiste portrays Erika Kohut who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory. She lives with her tyrannical elderly mother in a hermetically sealed world of love, hate and dependency in which there is no room for men. Her escapes...

World Chinema

• Slovakia,Czech Republic
• 2001
• 110min

A century of life in the provincial landscape of an all-but-forgotten Eastern European country ...a doctor performs a small miracle with the help of cigar smoke. A young soldier performs heroics in his lovemaking. A likeable beg...

World Chinema

• UK
• 2001
• 90min

An upbeat, oddball comedy showing slices of the lives of a sexy group of friends. Four friends, Sean, Vincent, Jody and Lenny find themselves at a dead-end. Trapped in a twilight world of permanent night shift work they hang out e...

World Chinema

• Brazil
• 2001
• 85min

Lena is in her eighth month of pregnancy. The child′s father has left her. Here, on an almost deserted highway in a desolate hinterland, she runs a small general store where people can also eat and drink. Vilela is hoping to make ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2001
• 108min

Min Boung-Hun obtained a lot of ideas while traveling in Russia as a foreign student. "While on my travels, I stopped by a coal-mining region. I lodged at a private house, and their son kept saying that he would never work at a ...

World Chinema

• Bulgaria,the Netherlands,Hungary
• 2001
• 88min

"Life passes like a shadow..." Ivan only remembers the first line of an old folk song once believed capable of resurrecting the dead. The young man used to sing it with his best friend Kamen, who now struggles to stay alive in an ...

World Chinema

• UK
• 2001
• 90min

In the 1930s, Britain was between wars and on the verge of depression. Family homes were rented, pubs were smoke-filled dens and streetlights were minimal. For seven year old, Liam, growing up against the bleak and gritty backdrop...

World Chinema

• France
• 2001
• 86min

A young man′s interest in film history leads to a revelation about his own past in this drama. Sam is a student and film fan who is fascinated by Sylvain Marceau, an actor who had a brief career in the 1930s but seems to have vani...

World Chinema

• France,Germany,Algeria
• 2001
• 93min

After many years as a tourist guide in the Slave museum in Senegal, Alloune, 65, a widower living alone, decides to go to America in search of his ancestors, taken away from his village two hundred years ago and sold as slaves in ...

Wide Angle

• France
• 2001
• 87min

This documentary essay in four chapters confronts the existence of four people (eye surgeon Yves Pouliquen, sculptor Jean-Louis Faure butcher Michel Labelle, and editor and producer Francoise Widhoff). The author approaches ...