Special Programs in Focus

• Kyrgyzstan,France
• 2000
• 81min

Since his days of making short films, filmmaker, Aktan Abdykalykov has preferred autobiographical tales as his main subject. His experience as an adolescent takes a significant place in his world of film. The Adopted Son is a comi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2000
• 85 min

The Apple brought worldwide fame to Samira Makhmalbaf, who was just 18 year-old when she directed this film. Shooting began when she saw a television broadcast about a 65 year-old man who raised his twin daughters locked inside th...

Special Programs in Focus

• Turkmenistan
• 2000
• 74 min

The events take place in Turkmenistan, the former Soviet republic, now an independent state in Central Asia. The main character of the film is a young man who loves cinema. He forgets socialist reality when watching the films with...

World Cinema

• Russia,Germany
• 2000
• 110 min

Summer, 1953 in Satka, a small town south of The Urals between war-ravaged Russia and the Siberian gulags. Olga, sole survivor of a family wiped out in the siege of Leningrad, arrives at a communal ex-barracks. Alexei, the militia...

Special Programs in Focus

• Turkmenistan
• 2000
• 80 min

Sadyk, an old man, wakes with a premonition about death. It makes him remember his long life, and these reminiscences are the sequences of the story. The moment when life comes to its end, our film ends too. His parents died very ...

Open Cinema

• Russia,France
• 2000
• 112 min

Months before a single drop of blood was shed, no one could have told officer Pyotr Grinyov that rebellion was a senseless enterprise. If someone had unveiled her future at that point, Masha Mironova would have been terrified by w...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2000
• 90 min

Filmmaker, Jafar Panahi explores the various issues that surround Iranian woman from the core of Iranian society. The film begins in the hospital where a new life is brought into the world. The birth of a child is celebrated there...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2000
• 105 min

Filmmaker, Takashi Miike, known for his rich ideas and dynamic directing approach, a quality which even Hollywood has taken notice of, presents The City of Lost Souls, based on the original story from best selling author, Seishu H...

World Cinema

• France
• 2000
• 93 min

An incredibly gifted young dancer, whose style is "street," is influenced as much by break-dancing as by ballet. Mute since birth, she competes weekly for cash in New York′s hippest nightclub. Then she is discovered by a handsome,...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran,Italy
• 2000
• 80 min

The Day | Became a Woman is a ′compressed file′ containing the social reality that women in Iran face. This feature is comprised of three segments, beginning with the perspective of a nine-year-old about to begin life as a woman i...