A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2000
• 83 min

Hollywood often condemns Iran as a country of terrorists, however the Iran that we see in their cinema is peaceful, beautiful and philosophical. A land endlessly tormented by war and conflict, yet the Kurds who live there are simp...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2000
• 101 min

Rita Vogt is seduced into the terrorist movement through her sense of justice and her love for Andi. A few years later, realizing that the movement is falling apart, she goes underground, hiding out in East Germany. With the help ...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2000
• 90 min

The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con, who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter′s death. As he mounts his design for vengeance, he allies himself with two friends of his deceased daughter, Ed and Elaine, who fi...

Wide Angle

• the Netherlands
• 2000
• 142 min

In October 1998, Johan van der Keuken called his radiologist at the Academic Hospital in Utrecht from Paris and heard that he only had a few years to live. Prostate cancer had taken hold in his body. Van der Keuken had traveled th...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2000
• 75min

If Disney can produce the animations about everlasting love every year, why can′t we make animation out of Choon-Hyang? This animated version contains ample amount of colorful and brilliant images, utilizing two-dimensional digit...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2000
• 108 min

Set in the late 1920s, The Luzhin Defence concerns a chess Grand Master who arrives in Italy to play the match of his life and unexpectedly finds love. Since discovering his talent in a boyhood overshadowed by his parents′ faili...

World Cinema

• Germany,United States
• 2000
• 121min

A gang of unique outcasts live in a downtown L.A. fleapit, known as the Million Dollar Hotel. Innocent Tom Tom serves them, and he falls for the street angel Eloise. One day, Izzy, the one of its residents dies and he is revealed ...

New Current

• China
• 2000
• 65 min

Like filmmaker Ding Jiancheng′s statement on life, which he describes as "life is as fragile as a piece of paper," this film articulates this point as a Cine-Poem. During the Cultural Revolution a young man living in a small villa...

Special Programs in Focus

• Kazakhstan
• 2000
• 82 min

In a small apartment somewhere in Almaty, two 20-years old boys puff on grass. A radio is playing; thin white smoke spirals toward the ceiling; tramways rattle by outside. The two smokers slump into a mellow half-sleep and the her...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2000
• 100 min

Zhang Yimou is too young to be considered ′old′, but it seems as time passes he is becoming more interested in the ′precious traditions′ that are slowly disappearing. In The Road Home, he tells the story of ′pure love.′ Luo Yushen...