New Current

• China
• 2000
• 96 min

Father is parody of the conflict between a son who challenges his father’s authoritarianism and the father who is threatened by this. The father, Ma Linsheng, is the leader of the labor union and a member of the party. When his wi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2000
• 123 min

Fleeing by Night is a sad tale of two men and a woman living through an era of uncertainty. Set in China during the 1930s, theater owner′s daughter, Ing′er, her cellist fiance, Shao Dugn who just returned from U.S., and star of th...

New Current

• Taiwan
• 2000
• 60 min

Just as the circumstances that force Kundera′s [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]’s womanizing Czech surgeon to fell the Russian invasion reveal a passion for the flesh from a unique perspective, Fluffy Rhapsody’s Wan allows the ...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2000
• 108 min

Friendly Persuasion: Iranian Cinema after the Revolution is a documentary that presents itself as a research paper on the history, industry and aesthetics of Iranian filmmaking. What is the secret to Iranian cinema′s uniqueness th...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 14min

Today is Soon-Ae? nineteenth birthday. Her mother died at nineteen while giving birth to her. The ghost of her mother comes to her as she struggles to make ends meet. Free use of camera and its paradoxical representation makes us ...

World Cinema

• Venezuela,Spain
• 2000
• 105 min

Oliver, a child of only 11 years, is kicked out of his home by his alcoholic and violent stepfather. His mother, who fears being beaten, does not intervene. Oliver finds himself having to live on the streets, where he meets other ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2000
• 100 min

Returning to fiction film-making after a 13-year absence, Nagisa Oshima has overcome the handicap of a stroke (which left him partially paralyzed) and made one of his purest, saddest and most beautiful films. Carefully balanced be...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2000
• 137 min

Shanao who appeared out of nowhere during 10th century Japan, and whose tragic death at a young age has left numerous battle stories, is a true historical figure. Especially the stories of Shanao and Benkei whose fateful meeting a...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2000
• 80 min

Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the twentieth century. Smoked by generations of musicians, students, and workers to little discernible ill effect, it continues to be reviled by the vast majority of governments around t...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2000
• 102 min

Gripsholm plunges the audience into the pleasure-craving, decadent world of Berlin cabaret at the beginning of the 1930s. That was the time when the last taboos were torn down and fig leaves quickly became a thing of the past. Kur...