A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2001
• 98min

Singapore′s very first romantic comedy, Chicken Rice War is a fusion film, mixing chicken rice with Shakespeare′s Romeo and Juliet. Fenson and Audrey come from two chicken rice-making families who have been rivals for 20 years. Wh...

New Currents

• India
• 2001
• 72min

Dejavu is Biju Viswanath′s feature debut film after his participation in the PIFF with his short film Voyage. David is imprisoned in a lighthouse on an isolated island because of bad weather. As time goes by he is filled wit...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran,Japan
• 2001
• 96min

Delbaran is an international joint project by Iran and Japan, which depicts the life of a young Afghan boy, Kaim, in the Iranian border town of Delbaran. Kaim is a precocious boy who learns how the world functions. Kaim is a valet...

New Currents

• Hong Kong
• 2001
• 97min

In 1989, events in Tiananmen Square shook the whole world. After that historic event, the lives of those who participated changed forever. What happened to them afterwards? The director, who as a college student participated in th...

World Chinema

• Ireland
• 2001
• 94min

Although not related, Pig and Runt are born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. They are almost telepathic. Now sixteen, they have created an insular, and dangerous world inventing their own rules and language. O...

Wide Angle

• United States,Israel
• 2001
• 84min

Trembling before G-d is an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, sexuality, and religious fundamentalism. Built around intimately told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2001
• 224min

A well-known fact: India was subjected to British rule beginning with the English victory in 1857. For many years, the British collected a tax called Lagaan from the Indians, claiming that it was used to protect the Indians themse...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2001
• 93min

An old bachelor, Hae-Gon is secretly in love with a girl from Yanbian. Hak-Rak likes to talk about his uncle, a veteran of the Vietnam War, whenever he can. Jun-Hyung, a college graduate, mistrusts the national news and watches on...

World Chinema

• NewZealand
• 2001
• 92min

It is the summer of 1972 and the Phelon family is settling into their isolated cottage for another perfect seaside holiday: Days of swimming and fishing, sultry nights of food, wine, and good company. This summer, 13-year-old Jane...

World Chinema

• Norway
• 2001
• 88min

Jan is a weedy and nerdy loser. His girlfriend has left him, his fast food bar is going under and his dad pushes him around in his own house. Things are so bad that he walks out into the forest to hang himself. And he can′t even d...