A Window on Asian Cinema

• Tran Anh Hung
• Vietnam,France
• 2000
• 115 min

Five years after Cyclo, Tran Anh Hung presents his latest feature, set in the city of Hanoi. Twenty three year old Lien lives with her older brother, an actor, while working at her older sister, Suong′s store. Suong′s husband, Quo...

Special Programs in Focus

• Mohsen MAKHMALBAF
• Iran,France
• 2000
• 95 min

As a young man, Mohsen Makhmalbaf served time in jail for an attack on police while demonstrating against the Palebi Administration. Now a middle-aged filmmaker, he recruited actors for a film based on that incident. Mohsen had a ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Edward Yang
• Taiwan,Japan
• 2000
• 173 min

Edward Yang brings us a thoughtful observation on the lives of diverse generations from young boy to a full-aged father and head of a family, with detailed sincerity. Computer executive Nu jian jumps into a heated competition to s...

World Cinema

• Kaspar Rostrup
• Denmark
• 2000
• 100 min

Mrs. Nielsen and her autistic son Brian live in absolute seclusion. Despite this, Mrs. Nielsen tries to give the impression that their life is quite normal. It is only Brian who is occasionally a little more agitated. One day he r...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Garin Nugroho
• Indonesia
• 2000
• 87 min

Based on true historical facts when, in October 1965, Indonesia, seven generals were assassinated. The government claimed that it was committed by communists and issued a harsh clamp down. The number of victims who were unfairly p...

Special Retrospective Films of Krzysztof Zanussi

• Krzysztof ZANUSSI
• Poland
• 2000
• 107min

Emily and her mother are repatriated into Poland’s Western Territories from the eastern territories now taken over by the Soviet Union. They meet an American serviceman Norman, and Emily and Norman fall in love each other. He invi...

Wide Angle

• Wei Te-Shen
• Taiwan
• 2000
• 72 min

A heated summer in northern Taiwan cultivates a young man′s anguish. His name, Cheng-jia, is somewhat ironic. ＂Cheng-jia＂, in Chinese, means to build a family and settle down. However, Cheng-jia in this film seems to be cursed. Af...

Wide Angle

• John Appel
• the Netherlands
• 2000
• 88 min

More than 20 years after his first hit single, ＂Lonely Christmas,＂ Andre Hazes is still the greatest and most popular sentimental singer in the Netherlands. Andre Hazes: She Believes in Me is a film about music, love and lonelines...

Wide Angle

• Victor Asliuk
• Belarus
• 2000
• 27 min

Andrei works as a clown in a hospital where children are treated for cancer. He injures himself and can only get around on crutches. Hearing of a way to protect people from illnesses, he decides to save Belarus…

World Cinema

• Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
• Iceland,Norway,Sweden,Germany,Denmark
• 2000
• 96 min

When we meet Paul, he seem to be living a normal life with his parents in Reykjavik. he is interested in art and music and has just begun a relationship with his dream girl. But things are not always what they seem - with Paul’s i...