Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2000
• 96 min

One day, a magazine reporter receives a call from someone telling him take a woman, who works as a nude model, home. He takes this rain-soaked woman in and she becomes a part of his domestic life. But the woman runs away every nig...

Special Programs in Focus

• Kazakhstan
• 2000
• 65 min

In 1979, when the Republic of Kazakhstan was still a part of the Soviet Union, suppressed rage and the loneliness fill Almaty. On the last day of classes, three high school students - a Russian Valera, a Jew Jacob, and a Kazakh Ka...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2000
• 98min

The unique world of Asian martial arts and the puppet theatre of Taiwan meet at the Legend of the Sacred Stone. Four hundred years ago, Monster Mo Kuei comes to stir the rivers and the lakes, and Su Huan-jen beats Monster Mo Kuei ...

World Cinema

• France,Switzerland
• 2000
• 174 min

Jean Barnery, is a Protestant minister whose family owns a famous porcelain factory. When his marriage collapses because of his wife Nathalie′s infidelity, he finds himself attracted to 20-year-old Pauline and decides to leave th...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2000
• 99 min

Tomasz, a physician in his sixties, works on the set of a film about Saint Bernard. Intelligent but moody, Tomasz suspects he might be terminally ill. Medical tests confirm his suspicions. Tomasz begins to deny the moral values he...

Wide Angle

• Sweden
• 2000
• 84 min

In twenty film productions Sven Nykvist worked with Ingmar Bergman. Together they were pioneers in the art of sculpting with light. Twice Sven Nykvist won the greatest award of them all - the Oscar for Best Cinematography for Crie...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2000
• 107 min

This, last part of Fruit Chan′s ′Trilogy of Hong Kong Handover,′ is a self-portrait of Hong Kong during a period of transition seen through the eyes of a nine-year boy. Fruit Chan chooses the normal daily routines of ordinary peop...

World Cinema

• Czech Republic
• 2000
• 103 min

In this film, seven Prague-based characters attempt to forge and sustain "serious” relationships, which become a series of clashes leading to disappointment and loneliness. Robert works for a travel agency and helps arrange scenes...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2000
• 90 min

For over forty years South Africa was governed by the most notorious form of racial domination since Nazi Germany. When it finally collapsed, those who had enforced apartheid′s rule wanted amnesty for their crimes. Their victims w...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 63 min

It′s 1998 as the filmmaker drives through the streets of Seoul in a taxi. His adventures feature seven motor-mouthed drivers who relate stories that are interesting yet bitter. Mr. Lee lectures on improving male potency and lovema...