Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2000
• 26 min

For children, a camera can be a toy. The Day My Aunt Was Ill was initiated as a children′s play but was completed as a film with the help of their father and brother. Despite its title, the film does not involve the aunt′s illness...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2000
• 22 min

The Door is a part of an omnibus film, The Tales of Kish, sponsored by the Bureau of Tourism of Kish Island where there is a famous resort. Nasser Taghvai, Abolfazl Jalili, and Bahram Beyzai participated in its production. In the ...

Wide Angle

• Kazakhstan
• 2000
• 26′ 30"

Animated cartoon film The Dragon’s Island is a result of a transformation of classical Japanese literature(Akutagawa Ryunoske ‘The Twilight of Life’) into a graphically unique film, which relies on oriental traditions of animated ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2000
• 100 min

Lagarista, transporting film reels between theaters by bike, is still prevalent in the Philippines. Gregory works the Lagarista, while taking care of his grandfather ailing from Alzheimer’s. He hangs out with projectionist, Jimmy;...

World Cinema

• Greece
• 2000
• 178 min

The island of Chios, 1960. Following the sudden death of the local rural guard, the council of the village of Tholopotami pressures the district agronomist to appoint a new man in the place of the deceased. The available rural gua...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2000
• 118 min

JM, a young Japanese man, leads a solitary, uneventful life in Tokyo, his only company a couple of rare snakes. He dreams of owning a very special car- a 1967 Citroen DS. Via the Internet, JM makes contact with a seller, and flies...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2000
• 6min 10sec

A young woman works as an exotic dancer in a bar. The customers?hats remind her of a man she knew as a child. The man had entered her bedroom, turned back the sheets, and laid his hands on her body. The woman, conscious of having ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 20 min

Two women visit an old empty apartment. One suffers from post-marital syndrome and finds shelter in the place while the other woman, a beggar scarred by a miscarriage, spends the night there as well. Intense images of the two wome...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2000
• 104 min

Most films on homosexuality and sexual identity approach these subjects with great seriousness, either through the subject of AIDS or existential approaches to a person who has run into a dead end. However, The Iron Ladies challen...

Wide Angle

• Cambodia
• 2000
• 98 min

There was a nation-wide construction project in Cambodia in 1999. As a cable line was constructed from the border of Thailand to Vietnam through Cambodia, Cambodia entered the Information Age of the 21st century. One man lectures ...