Retrospective Section
Brick LayingOnly a fragment of this documentary survives with fascinating glimpse of rural artisanal methods of making bricks.
World Cinema
BrotherDanila Bagrov returns to his native town after two years in the Army. But life in the Russian provinces no longer suits him and he decides to move to St. Petersburg where his elder brother recently started to prosper. Danila finds...
World Cinema
Brothers in TroubleFrom the moment that Amir arrives illegally in England from Pakistan, packed in a vegetable crate, nothing is as he expected. Instead of streets paved with gold, he finds himself holed up in a dismal house in the north of England ...
Wide Angle
Bruno RUDANT, 34 ansLife of a homeless told in frank, honest manner. We are introduced to Bruno, a part-time painter by day and a beggar by night who spends his nights at Gare de l′Est.
World Cinema
Career GirlsTwo old roommates get together after a long period apart and reminisce about the good old days. Through a series of flashbacks we see the women as they were in the mid‘80s when they were students in London. Amid girl talk spiced w...
Retrospective Section
CarnivoreThe latest film by Kim Ki-Young, Carnivore is a remake of the 1972 the Insect Woman. The usual themes are present: Declining patriarchal authority, conflicts between the wife and her husband′s secret love, and disintegration of th...
Retrospective Section
Center StageThe film centers on the legendary actress Ruan Lingyu who killed herself in the 1930s. Besieds telling her life story, Stanley Kwan describes the social situation of the 1920s and 1930s during which Chinese cinema was divided betw...
Retrospective Section
Ch’o-Yong Mu (Dance of Sea Dragon of the East Sea)A traditional Korean mask dance which originated during the Koryo Dynasty.
Opening Film
Chinese BoxJohn, a seasoned British journalist and Hong Kong veteran for 20 years, takes the opportunity to pursue his unrequited love in the last days before Hong Kong′s changeover to China. This love is Vivian, a bar hostess and former pro...
World Cinema
Chronicle of a DisappearanceAfter living in New York for many years, the Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman returned to Israel for the making of this film. He used his privileged position as half insider and half outsider to analyze how much the Arab popul...