Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 80 min

In 1994, the people of rural mountain village of Doomealee engaged in a heated struggle against the goverment′s extreme measures to consolidate small scale schools. The school was eventually closed yet the villagers made the most ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2000
• 117 min

When the filmmaker was surveying the streets of Mongkok to shoot Little Cheung, the last part of Fruit Chan′s ′Trilogy of Hong Kong Handover,′ he came across a prostitute from the mainland. His unsuccessful attempt to insert her s...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2000
• 96 min

For the children of George Khan, proud Pakistani fish and chip shop owner, life is one long compromise. For George, ′Ghengis′ to his kids, life is an uphill battle to get his family to conform to traditional Pakistani values. But ...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2000
• 95 min

On 26th April 1986, reactor 4 of Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Ukraine exploded. In the following months thousands of young conscripted soldiers were drafted into the area from all over the Soviet Union and deployed for t...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2000
• 132 min

In ancient times it was forbidden for people to freely demonstrate their love and happiness. One could not express these emotions because to do so would excite the envy and anger of the gods, who considered happiness their exclusi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2000
• 217 min

This is a film about people who cannot seem to escape the pains of the past. In this tale of a bus driver and two brothers who survived a bus hijack two years ago and reunite to start a new life as a family, the filmmaker explores...

World Cinema

• Norway
• 2000
• 98 min

This is a story of Eva, a single mother who struggles to support herself and her daughter Jenny. She is tired of jobs like night duty at the local hospital and house cleaning for retired and disabled people. Her real passion is pa...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2000
• 123 min

Junji Sakamoto, who has mainly portrayed the world of men, presents the story of a woman this time in Face, yet maintains the same type of hero who resists existing social norms. Fat and unattractive Masako, who is in her late th...

World Cinema

• France
• 2000
• 118 min

Nicolas, about age 20, comes from a wealthy family. His mother is a remarkable businesswoman, while his father, an alcoholic, does absolutely nothing. Nicolas spends as much time as he can in the local town, distancing himself fro...

World Cinema

• France,Germany,Italy
• 2000
• 96 min

This is an upbeat and quirky movie about a group of loveable misfits who cluster in the diner where Bella waits tables. Her regulars are a trio of elderly gentlemen, all charmingly depicted, whose kibitzing and merriment is based ...