World Cinema

• Xavier Koller
• Germany
• 2000
• 102 min

Gripsholm plunges the audience into the pleasure-craving, decadent world of Berlin cabaret at the beginning of the 1930s. That was the time when the last taboos were torn down and fig leaves quickly became a thing of the past. Kur...

Wide Angle

• Chang Ho-Jun
• Korea
• 2000
• 13 min

One early morning, Shaman, Il-Hwa discovers that all ghosts she had sent to heaven were waiting to greet her. Even as someone who soothes other spirits‘ lingering attachments, she finds it quite difficult to find peace in the fac...

World Cinema

• Dominik Moll
• France
• 2000
• 117 min

Michel and Claire are a married couple growing increasingly frustrated with their everyday lives. Their upcoming vacation offers them little relief - a stifling heat wave, dilapidated accommodations and three bad-tempered daughter...

New Current

• Vivian Chang
• Taiwan
• 2000
• 98 min

Everyone desires to change his or her reality. Director Vivian Chang presents such desire from a woman′s point-of-view in this film made up of three different episodes: a five year-old girl who begs in the street with her physical...

Wide Angle

• Sergei Dvortsevoy
• Kazakhstan,France,Germany
• 2000
• 52 min

A documentary on the life of a circus family wandering the steppe lands of Kazakhstan. They live in a small mini-bus. Their performances are far from spectacular, yet this is the life they have chosen. Director Sergei Dvortsevoy, ...

World Cinema

• Florian Flicker
• Austria
• 2000
• 84 min

Andreas is unemployed, divorced and at the end of his rope. His alimony is in arrears and he doesn′t even have enough cash to buy his son a birthday present. His despair leads him to a supermarket, which he plans to rob. However, ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Aparna Sen
• India
• 2000
• 130 min

Perhaps conflict between a mother and her daughter-in-law is the last exit for problems concerning women than simply being an issue of personality because victims tend to hurt each other. Female filmmaker Aparna Sen attempts to he...

Special Programs in Focus

• Maysam MAKHMALBAF
• Iran
• 2000
• 76 min

A girl′s dream of voluntarily leaving school to make films is perhaps much more dramatic than a film itself. She learned film from her father, and finally came to make films with her own ideas. The Apple, her first film, made at t...

World Cinema

• Mimmo Calopresti
• Italy
• 2000
• 84 min

While on a visit to his homeland in Turin, a seaside region in southern Italy, wealthy businessman Luigi is moved by the recent tragedy of a distant relative. Teenaged Rosario′s mother has been murdered and his father is in prison...

World Cinema

• Noemie Lvovsky
• France,Switzerland
• 2000
• 111 min

The film, with six intertitles for each section: "Prologue," "The Girls Are Five," "Kids," "Heartthrobs," "Holiday in Italy," "The Final Exam Year," and "Adulthood," is a story of four 13-year-old girls, Emilie, Stella, Ines and M...