Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2000
• 105 min

A feature documentary about documentary, Cinema Verite: Defining the Moment is a major retrospective of some of the century′s finest nonfiction films and a celebration of the legacy of the cinema Verite revolution of the late 1950...

World Cinema

• Turkey
• 2000
• 130 min

A young filmmaker, Muzaffer, returns to the small Anatolian village where to grew up, resolved to capture something of its idyllic charm on film. His father, Emin, has no time for such games-he is desperately trying to save an adj...

World Cinema

• France
• 2000
• 117 min

Paris, a very busy boulevard: Someone throws a crumpled piece of paper into the outstretched hands of a beggar woman. This is the bond that, for an instant, links the trajectories of several very different characters. Anne, a youn...

Special Retrospective Films of Krzysztof Zanussi

• Poland
• 2000
• 87min

Witold is an average young man at first glance. He’s been planning the expedition to the Himalayas, as his father did and where he died. However, he is facing his mother’s death, and a petty corruption at his job leads to him bein...

Open Cinema

• Denmark,France,Sweden
• 2000
• 139min

Selma is a Czech immigrant, a single mother working in a factory in rural America. Her salvation is her passion for music, especially the all-singing, all-dancing numbers found in classic Hollywood musicals. Selma harbours a sad s...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 116 min

Workers′ demonstrations are often remembered as clashes with heated exchanges and strained tensions. But there also exists a group of older workers shouting for the reform of unfair layoffs, massing themselves on the street on hot...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 92 min

It′s 1999 and several Burmese nationals assemble in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Seoul, crying for democracy in their country. For Koreans who are used to mass demonstration, this gathering may be meager, but to the ones involv...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2000
• 160 min

In a Chinese remote village untouched by war. Ma Dasan gets a visit from a mysterious stranger, who identifies himself only as "Me,” menaces the terrified him and leaves in his care two prisoners until he comes back. The prisoners...

New Current

• Korea
• 2000
• 95 min

＂Die Bad isn’t just an ordinary omnibus-style film. The 1st part Rumble has action; horror conventions dominate Nightmare, the 2nd part; the 3rd part Our Contemporarie is a mock-documentary; and the gangster genre is applied to th...

New Current

• Iran
• 2000
• 94 min

A film about alienation and relationships. When his love for a woman 12 years his senior is thwarted, Djomeh from Afghanistan joins Habib at a dairy farm in the remote mountainous region of Iran. Djomeh confides in the farm owner,...