Special Programs in Focus

• Tadjikistan
• 2000
• 107 min

This film tells the themes of ′love′ and ′life′ in a beautiful and fantastic, yet sad fashion. In a small village 17 year old girl Mamlakat lives with her father and an ignorant brother. One moonlit night, she goes to the theatre ...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2000
• 113 min

In this superbly crafted, yet disturbing, look at a group of people far from their homeland, Karmakar presents us with a cross-section of people in an unforgiving, almost merciless manner. A group of Germans are stuck in the Manil...

World Cinema

• Croatia
• 2000
• 97 min

Stipan, a young policeman working in Split, is punished for poor performance by being given a seemingly preposterous assignment. On the island where Stipan was born, several old retired men have been acting in a suspicious manner....

World Cinema

• Brazil
• 2000
• 102 min

In a dusty village in remote, northeastern Brazil, we meet Darlene, an impoverished peasant girl. Abandoned by the father of her unborn child, she leaves town for the big city. Three years later she returns with her baby to bury h...

World Cinema

• Yugoslavia
• 2000
• 94 min

In a remote train station, far from the worries and irritations of urban life, Mak operates the lone taxi service. Eight months ago, called to fight for his country, he was immediately wounded and spent the rest of the war recuper...

Wide Angle

• Czech Republic
• 2000
• 5 min

Mass media satisfies our need for information, as well as our longing for scandals, distraction, and excitement. As time passes and technological devices are perfected, we become more and more involved with mass media and we have ...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2000
• 120min

This film is a poetic documentary without an anthropological or descriptive approach that shows the audience the unique nature, history, religion, culture and art of Iran. It enjoys a cinematic form different from other documentar...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 4 min

A man is sitting in front of a computer. Floppy-disks are flying by him outside, while a human brain with wings glides within his imagination. This is a profound fantasy of human-media relationship relying on concise images create...

Wide Angle

• the Netherlands
• 2000
• 11′ 12"

Music for an Owl is an animated film in which, during the four seasons, a striking picture of the animal life in an old Gothic church is sketched. The decaying church is gradually being restored throughout the film. As the restora...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2000
• 114 min

It′s circa 1920. Sixteen year-old Soonie marries into a family with a 10 year-old boy as her husband. Later the now grown-up husband comes back from his studies with his westernized girlfriend and sets up a family. Driven out of h...