A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2000
• 100 min

The season of guavas ripening, Hoa attempts to climb over the fence of a big house every time he has the opportunity. This house is actually the place where Hoa grew up and where his growth stopped after falling from a guava tree ...

World Cinema

• Tunisie
• 2000
• 124 min

Aicha is a young woman of 18 who must stay in Djerba while her husband, Said, works eleven months of the year in Tunis. Aicha expresses her desire to leave for Tunis. The brave and bold young woman proposes to weave carpets in ord...

Wide Angle

• Switzerland
• 2000
• 24 min

Meric, a five-year-old boy who lives with his family in a suburb of Istanbul, witnessed his father′s abduction by the secret police. Unable to cope with this traumatic experience, Meric begins a desperate search for his father. Wh...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2000
• 90 min

The film tells the story of three generations of women. They are three very different women, all named Madeleine, who are brought together by their shared quest to slowly peel away and recreate the layers of their fragmented memor...

Special Programs in Focus

• Tajikistan
• 2000
• 70 min

The inhabitants of a far-away mountain village are tired of troubles and problems in their lives but somebody, may it be God, had sent them the last ordeal for their salvation. In the mountains the local shepherds find a young man...

Wide Angle

• INDIA
• 2000
• 20min

Kedarnath, located in the Himalayas, is a sacred place for the Hindus. Here there are coolies who carry pilgrims physically incapable of climbing to the top of the mountain. Their labor often makes them seem like monks in the proc...

World Cinema

• Spain,France
• 2000
• 106 min

At the center of The Waiting List is a bus station outside a small town. Every bus that pulls into the station is full, so the line of waiting passengers keeps growing. Included in the line are Emilio, a young engineer, and Jacque...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2000
• 114 min

The events of this film begin with the return of the beautiful young Tania to her small mining village. She has spent the past five years working as a model; but, tired of life in the big city, she overwhelms her shy childhood swe...

Wide Angle

• France
• 2000
• 8min

To get out of a well and reach for the light, a small creature clings to a gas bubble. He rises, holding tight to the bubble, crossing hostile spaces, standing up to cold, darkness, and loneliness. When he reaches the light, he is...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2000
• 118 min

This film, made by one man alone, is the story of one man crossing the coldest region in Japan in the middle of a freezing cold winter. Beginning with the loose rhythm of jazz, The White is a unique documentary about a person who ...