World Chinema

• Yugoslavia,United States
• 2001
• 85min

Filmed in Yugoslavia and the US, this frenetic black comedy pitting sexual expression against political repression is Makavejev′s most famous film. The "WR" of the title refers to Wilhelm Reich, the sex theorist who was a center o...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2001
• 140min

Yeonsangun is the first historic piece by the ′giant of the historical films′ director Shin Sang-Ok. Based on Park Jong-Hwa′s novel (1938), the film depicts the motivation behind Yeonsan′s atrocities, a longing for his mother. Yeo...

World Chinema

• Norway
• 2001
• 88min

Jan is a weedy and nerdy loser. His girlfriend has left him, his fast food bar is going under and his dad pushes him around in his own house. Things are so bad that he walks out into the forest to hang himself. And he can′t even d...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2001
• 27min

A boy, who had crossed the ocean and landed on New York′s Time Square when he was fourteen, is now grown up aged twenty-four walks through the streets. He tells us how he struggled with cultural differences and how his name change...

World Cinema

• Iceland,Denmark,France,Norway
• 2000
• 92 min

Hlynur leads a protected life within the safe confines of his doting mother′s home in downtown Reykjavik. Though a thriving city awaits outside his door, the reclusive young man is content to live on social security and avoid the ...

World Cinema

• Germany,Georgia
• 2000
• 96 min

It was a summer unlike any other. Sybille promised Mickey one hundred kisses before the autumn. But he only got 73. The summer of the eclipse, fourteen year-old Sybille, arrives in a sleepy little town to spend her vacation from s...

World Cinema

• Sweden
• 2000
• 119min

This unusual feature, initiated by the Goteborg film festival, has been in production all through the 90s. Each year a new director has been appointed to add a new episode, around 10 minutes long, to the project. The final film wi...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2000
• 97 min

A Conversation with Gregory Peck offers an engaging balance between Peck′s public persona and his private life, using excerpts from a number of Peck′s recent one-man shows and well-known clips from many of his great movies. At eac...

World Cinema

• Czech,Slovak,Zimbabwe
• 2000
• 105 min

A Fountain for Susan is a romantic musical comedy set against the background of the African wilderness and the beauty of Victoria Falls. Susan arrives in the small African village of Bantumbe posing as the wife of her African frie...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam,France
• 2000
• 115 min

Five years after Cyclo, Tran Anh Hung presents his latest feature, set in the city of Hanoi. Twenty three year old Lien lives with her older brother, an actor, while working at her older sister, Suong′s store. Suong′s husband, Quo...