World Cinema

• Sweden
• 2000
• 98 min

In a city somewhere in the far north, a strange series of events take place: a clerk is made redundant in a degrading manner, a lost immigrant is violently attacked in a busy street, and a magician makes an error in his act. In th...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2000
• 10 min

This film seeks to give a pictorial view of a father, after his passing from life, seeking to reach out to his son. His lamentations of his incapability to identity with his son are graphically displayed in the film. The film, wi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,Germany
• 2000
• 83 min

Many stories surround the Suzhou River, the body of water that runs through the city of Shangai. Among them is the passionate story of lovers, Mardar and Moudan, who surrender their lives for love, told through the eyes of video p...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2000
• 113 min

Steal Happiness is a humorous yet sad tale of the harsh lives of a poverty-ridden family. Zhang Damin, who works at a thermos factory, lives in a two-room shack with his widowed mother and four brothers and sisters. However, the h...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2000
• 100 min

The love of contemporary people is too complicated to express with traditional language. People set off to find the right ones in order to escape from their loneliness, however, find themselves in the shadow of love, lonelier than...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2000
• 101 min

The Sun Alley, the street Micha lives on, wends most of its way through West Berlin, with only its tail end in East Berlin. The apartment is cramped, the neighbor works for the secret police and the Soviet Union is big brother. Th...

New Current

• Japan
• 2000
• 121 min

This is the second film of Isao Yukisada, who used to work as Shunji lwai′s assistant director. The delicate psychological articulations and the protagonist′s realization of love, a moment too late, resembles lwai′s Love Letter, b...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2000
• 108 min

The battle between two Choon-Hyangs, Hong Sung-Kie′s vs. Shin Sang-Ok′s, ended with Shin′s lop-sided triumph, thus exceeding industry expectations. Shin′s version showed an effective use of applying color cinematography′s visual s...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2000
• 100 min

"The beauty of digital cinema lies with its ability to bring out the natural acting from the actors who become less camera conscious. It′s an effective way to embody realism, much more effective than analog cinema." Tears is a dig...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2000
• 40 min

Mohsen Makhmalbaf′s cinematic vision is that a film should escape the privilege of class. This 40-minute video reflects this notion. Working with Shahaboddin Farokh-Yar, who helped him filming his previous work, The Silence, this ...