World Cinema

• Portugal,France,Italy
• 2000
• 124 min

Portugal, 1974: There is increasing civilian unrest against the oppression induced by the Fascist regime. Any critical voice against the Salazar government is instantly silenced by brutality and imprisonment. University professor ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2000
• 89 min

This is a 70′s adaptation of Choon-Hyang that centers around two sidekicks, Bang-Ja and Hyang-Dan. Popular comedy actors from that period provide social-satire in an implicit manner disguised within a classical story, while Bang-J...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 17 min

The memories of oppression and violence are reflected upon a young man‘s spirit, as he is shot to death in a questionable circumstance while serving in the army. His memories presented in intermittent images, revive the fear and a...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2000
• 248 min

Directed by Frederick Wiseman, one of the legends of documentary cinema, Belfast, Maine is a film about ordinary experience in a beautiful old New England port city. It is a portrait of daily life with particular emphasis on work ...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2000
• 110 min

Billy is an eleven-year-old growing up in northern England. His father and older brother are on strike indefinitely from working in the mines. To help restore the family′s honour, Billy dons his grandfather′s old boxing gloves and...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 32min

This film is the report on the everyday life of a post-graduate unable to adapt to social circumstances. The hero wishes to compose sincere writings from the heart but finds it to be difficult. The cityscape of the post-student-mo...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2000
• 85 min

Blackboards deals with educators in search of students in the hinterland of war-ravaged region. It also deals with weary lives of Kurds, a minority group alienated by the Iranian society. Near the border of Iran and Iraq, there ar...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 9 min

Blink is a story of a mother and her young daughter who make a living by assembling dolls. The daughter wants to play with these dolls but the mother doesn′t allow it. The child′s desire to have the doll results in a scene of deat...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2000
• 94 min

The star of Bongja, Suh Gap-Sook, once claimed, "sometimes to have desires of starring in a porno film." With implicit lesbian tensions along with other risque elements, the star seems to have gotten her wish. But this is not an a...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2000
• 110 min

Fiery Mexican sisters, Maya and Rosa, immigrants to the United States, work as office cleaners in a downtown Los Angeles office block. A fated meeting with Sam, a passionate American activist, inspires them to unionize. Their part...